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Free photo resizing software
« on: August 04, 2012, 12:02:57 am »
Anyone know of a light app for resizing photos? I'm gonna be taking kids pictures at my daughter's birthday party and I need to shrink them down to about passport photo-size before printing them out. I'll be working on a crappy netbook, so Photoshop is out of the question. Google searching for photo resizing seems to produce endless apps for compressing photos to change the file-size, but what I need to do is change the dimensions. Any suggestions?
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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2012, 03:30:10 am »
Maybe though I've never used it (I use gimp to resize) so it might not meet your criteria but the product page mentions changing the dimensions so yeah.
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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2012, 09:05:56 am »
www.irfanview.com

Light on resouces/does batch proccessing
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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2012, 10:03:02 am »
Another point for The GIMP 2.6. Version 2.8 is even slower, despite the "benefits" it adds.
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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2012, 10:06:12 am »
For simple resizing I've always used MS paint.
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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2012, 11:51:13 am »
Microsoft Office Picture Manager has some easy functionality that will do this too.
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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2012, 12:56:25 pm »
Quote from: BadMouth on August 04, 2012, 09:05:56 am
www.irfanview.com

Light on resouces/does batch proccessing

Irfanview was so helpful at the last job I had, I talked our CEO into sending the creator of it a large donation for all the money it had saved us. I don't know the figure, only that it was "sizable," in his words.
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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2012, 10:08:07 pm »
Quote from: Samstag on August 04, 2012, 10:06:12 am
For simple resizing I've always used MS paint.

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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2012, 04:46:13 am »
xnview is definitely worth a gander.
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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2012, 04:40:50 pm »
Thanks. Irfanview was perfect for the task.
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Re: Free photo resizing software
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2012, 12:15:24 pm »
I don't know why so many people recommend GIMP when it is an abolute piece of crap. It takes me much longer to do simple stuff in that app than it does in Photoshop, and I mean really basic things like cropping and image resizing.

As someone who has 15 years experience with Photoshop, the free alternative I recommend is Paint.net. I've been using it at work (they won't get me Photoshop) and it's done a good job for basic image manipulation. It even supports many Adobe short-cuts, like for example CTRL+ and CTRL- for zoom in zoom out, etc. Prior to Paint.net, I tried getting by with GIMP. I absolutely hate it.

http://www.getpaint.net
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