Set of Free Software and Web Tools to Complete Your Image Resizing Need
Image resizing is daily need of photographer, specially in an era where everyone want to become a photographer. However, several people ask me do we need it? If you not techie then you definitely need it. An average user usually don’t know, they can go a photo uploading site and choose their desire format when uploading which may fit their basic need. They even don’t know what image hosting is!
Anyway, this guide is for those who fall in average computer user group. Here I will discuss some sort of software and web tool which can help you to resize your image.
As image resizing program work like same, so I am not going to put my own view. I just listing up software name with their owner descriptions.
VSO Image Resizer: With this free resize image software, you can create e-mail friendly versions of your images, load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large numbers of image files/batch image resize and thus save space on your hard drive. Using high resolution 1600×1200 for creating wallpaper or file-sharing you can save your memory. VSO Image Resizer can also change file names using a template and you can add your own watermark with transparency support.
VSO Image resizer is integrated into the Windows explorer shell, right click on your pictures and start working on your pictures !
Fotosizer: It’s a freeware batch image resizer tool. It resizes your photos in just 3 easy steps – 1. Photo selection, 2. select resize settings, then 3. Start the resize!
Help unlock the photos from your digital camera. Use Fotosizer to batch resize your photos making it easier and faster to email to friends, upload to photo sharing websites or upload to websites that offer photo printing services.
PIXresizer: It’s a photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes.
The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode. A great companion for webmasters and digital photographers.
There is hundreds other in the net, I just listed some of my favorite. You may look after on comment for more. Now time to talk about web tools.
You can also try screen capture tools with editor which might help you to customize more.
This is really a good article and well written.
Images are an effective medium to pull attantion immediately and express a lot in little.
For me I use Irfanview, which is really simple and an effective tool. It resizes the image and reduces the size to a great extent which is optimum to be used on web. It have special feature in it which mentions “Save it for WEB”.
Nice share Slym.