Resizing for dummies?

[KD5NRH]

I noticed the Vista image viewer will do all sorts of editing, except for resizing. My wife likes to post snapshots and the occasional product photo, but since I keep all the cameras set to max quality, that can be a bit of a problem.

Explaining to her how to do it in Gimp or Photoshop is a bit much. Anybody got a recommendation for a dead simple program to resize, maintaining aspect ratio?

Batch resize with jpeg compression level change would also be a nice feature, since I occasionally catch myself with a big group of already-edited 10MP photos that I want to send to someone, but don't want to tie up all the bandwidth when 1024x768 at 85% quality would be more than enough for the recipient's needs. Opening each one, resizing and saving gets old pretty quickly - especially when I'm using the older, slower laptop that can take a minute or two per photo just to get them opened and saved again.

[Bob_S]

Lightroom will do that easily enough via the export feature. A bit pricey though just for that feature.

73 de KI0QM

[srwatters]

I have two actions for auto resizing landscape & portrait oriented images. I could have used just one, but I like my landscape images to be shorter than portraits. It really is easy to create and use, plus if you already have the software, it's free.

[Ali_Houston]

Hi Bob!
Did you mean the "export for email option"?? I would be really grateful for an explanation as I use Lightroom and I need some compression help.

Thanks a lot!

Originally Posted by Bob_S

Lightroom will do that easily enough via the export feature. A bit pricey though just for that feature.

73 de KI0QM

[j1mmyj4m]

Ali, you have a pm about LR resizing so as not to hijack the thread.

[Randy Chambers]

Unless these are RAW files the easiest way if you are a Windows user is the Image Resizer Powertoy at http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe for XP or here for Windows 7/Vista

A simple right click on an image or folder of image gives these options;

[texkam]

a dead simple program to resize

Batch Picture Resize
About as simple as it gets.

[KD5NRH]

Originally Posted by Randy Chambers

Unless these are RAW files the easiest way if you are a Windows user is the Image Resizer Powertoy at http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe for XP or here for Windows 7/Vista

I think we have a winner. I think I'll put this on my machine too; I hate loading Gimp or Photoshop just to prep a dozen 10M product photos that will never be viewed at over 800x600.

[TXAvi8tor]

Here's another good choice. From the web site: ...convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. And it's FREE.

I use the "Image Viewer" (also free, and actually a decently capable editor) when I don't need layers or pixel-level editing. It doesn't support watermarking, though.

Depending on your spouse, FSResizer may be more than she wants to learn. But _you_ may end up using it...