On http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize you can download an executable called PhotoResize400.exe. Put it on your desktop and drop a folder on it. When you open the folder, you will discover that every picture in it has been duplicated and resized to 400 pixels on its longest edge.
My first idea was: how boring. You can't even resize to another dimension. Here comes the surprise: rename the executable to PhotoResize1600.exe, and pics will be resized to 1600 pixels. How ingenious! I really like this way of setting application parameters, it's immediately visible in the executable name itself. On the author's website you find further customisation options that you can use in the executable name.
Of course, many of you will argue that command line tools like Imagemagick provide far more flexibility. But for non-technical people it is much easier to just drop a folder on an executable and be done with it. In fact, I discovered this tool when one of my website customers complained that she couldn't upload her 10 megapixel images onto her website. For people like that, this tool is ideal
I made some websites for friends & organisations and used it just for the fact that so little can go wrong with it.
ReplyDeleteas easy as it can be.
Up till now I always recommended http://www.codeplex.com/ImageResizer for my non-tech website customers but this is even more simple! (although some of them don't get the whole drag&drop thing, so for them I might stick with the right-click solution)
ReplyDeleteDank u Koen! Dank zij jou kende ik dit en gebruikte ik dit veel, maar nog niet geïnstalleerd op mijn nieuwe laptop. Even googelen en ik kwam opnieuw op jouw blog met de link. Weeral veel tijd uitgespaard! Merci!
ReplyDeleteHaha, graag gedaan. Ik gebruik zelf dikwijls mijn blog om dingen terug te vinden die ik vergeten ben :)
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