Photo Resizer

[Haggy]

Gday Guys
I have a heap of photos that are very high res (taken with 5MP Digital Camera) and want to resize them pretty quickly and easily to either email or upload onto the internet. I was wondering what software people have had experience with in doing so, is there anything decent freely available that can help?

Cheers
Haggy

[XLR8 V8]

http://www.irfanview.com/

Program can perform batch processing to resize large numbers of photos at a time.

[Haggy]

Thanks mate, I will check it out now.

:D

Cheers
Chris

[team illucid]

adobe photoshop

[XLR8 V8]

adobe photoshop

Note he said "freely" available... I don't think he wants to spend $1000+ just to resize some pics ;) :p

[team illucid]

Note he said "freely" available... I don't think he wants to spend $1000+ just to resize some pics ;) :p
Sorry, I thought it was "free" ;)

[PepeLePew]

XP powertoy...

[Haggy]

Thanks for the help guys. Just out of curiousity, what is a good pixel size (height and width) to resize pics for email and uploading so as to cater for everyone no matter what internet connection?

I have gone with Irfanview mainly because i like the idea of a batch conversion of a heap of photos.

[team illucid]

I usully do 1024 X 768 at medium quality for the internet ... keeps each pic around the 120Kb mark .. or you could try 800 X 600 to get about 75kb per image

[GEN111LX8]

running along the same lines - If I had a pic of the car that I wanted to change size so that I could use it is an avatar (I know I'm not validated yet but I'm trying) what would you use.

[heavychevy]

use ifranview and select the size allowed 80 x 80 pixels

[team illucid]

running along the same lines - If I had a pic of the car that I wanted to change size so that I could use it is an avatar (I know I'm not validated yet but I'm trying) what would you use.

I would resize to 150 x 75 then make a highlight that was 80 x 80 and try to get the car into it

[XLR8 V8]

Haggy,
800 x 600 would be as small as you'd want to go - any smaller and you might as well have a phone camera rather than a 5MP beauty.:D Preferably minimum of 1024 x 768 to retain good detail without huge file sizes.

[heavychevy]

I would resize to 150 x 75 then make a highlight that was 80 x 80 and try to get the car into it

Interesting tip!