Downsize your photos with PIXresizer
JH writes:
This is a free software program, which you can use to downsize your
photos for emailing and for website use. This program is intended for
use with Windows XP and Vista (and earlier versions of Windows). I
haven't tried it out with Windows 7 ... if anyone does so, please
would you let me know if it's successful?
You can specify the exact number of pixels you’d like for the larger
photo dimension, and you can upload multiple photos – an entire folder
of photos, which PIXresizer will change for you in a flash.
If you're thinking about uploading photos onto Flickr, it's a good
idea to reduce your image sizes for faster uploading. For a landscape
photo, the ideal image width is 700-800 pixels. If someone were to
download this and attempt to print it out, such an image would be
rubbish ... so reducing images sizes is a good deterrent to stop
people from using your photos in this way. As a rough rule of thumb,
you need 4 times as many pixels in an image to get a good quality
print.
If you're uploading photos onto Blogger, then the ideal width is
500 pixels, by the way.
The program doesn't allow you to save the altered photos in the
same folder as your original ones. You can re-name your smaller
images, by a right-sided mouse click on them. I add the letters:
"min" to my image numbers ... eg IMG_5354min
You can download the program safely from this site …
http://download.cnet.com/PIXresizer/3000-12511_4-10607499.html
