Resizing pictures
Resizing pictures is a necessity today! When sending by email or posting to the internet or whatever you rarely need the full resolution.
Just last night I was doing an expense report and my son was asleep in the room with our scanner - I just took a quick digital picture of the receipt with my phone. (The auto-dropbox capabilities means it was automatically available on my computer within seconds.) But even the small resolution on my phone resulted in over 1mb files for just a single receipt - there's no point in sending something that big for something as simple as a receipt.
For years I've been using PIXResizer to solve this problem and I still recommend it. It does a good job. The only difficulty is that all the download links are from places like cnet and softonic that load up their downloads with other software and browser plug-ins and etc.
<rant>I personally see these download sites which require opt-out before you can avoid their search engine replacement or etc. as little better than viruses and malware providers themselves! If it's so bad that people won't install it with an opt-in scheme ... maybe you shouldn't be distributing it!!!</rant>
But today I remembered Microsoft's old powertoys - they had a photo tool that did resizing from a context menu in explorer. I did a little research and found that M$ no longer produces them, but somebody else produced a clone of their toy which seems to be working great.
Check out this link, download it, and install it. Unless I run into unexpected problems this is going to become one of those utilities I install on every computer I rebuild...
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/downloads/get/347439
Enjoy!
Just last night I was doing an expense report and my son was asleep in the room with our scanner - I just took a quick digital picture of the receipt with my phone. (The auto-dropbox capabilities means it was automatically available on my computer within seconds.) But even the small resolution on my phone resulted in over 1mb files for just a single receipt - there's no point in sending something that big for something as simple as a receipt.
For years I've been using PIXResizer to solve this problem and I still recommend it. It does a good job. The only difficulty is that all the download links are from places like cnet and softonic that load up their downloads with other software and browser plug-ins and etc.
<rant>I personally see these download sites which require opt-out before you can avoid their search engine replacement or etc. as little better than viruses and malware providers themselves! If it's so bad that people won't install it with an opt-in scheme ... maybe you shouldn't be distributing it!!!</rant>
But today I remembered Microsoft's old powertoys - they had a photo tool that did resizing from a context menu in explorer. I did a little research and found that M$ no longer produces them, but somebody else produced a clone of their toy which seems to be working great.
Check out this link, download it, and install it. Unless I run into unexpected problems this is going to become one of those utilities I install on every computer I rebuild...
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/downloads/get/347439
Enjoy!
posted by Peter Bowers at 2:43 AM
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