allenspencer Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Some of my pictures are too big to upload here, I need a good free software to shrink them down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Your pictures should be resized not overly-compressed. Try Picasa or Irfanview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mendel_leisk Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Irfanview, for one. It's a free viewer program that can do resize, conversion etc. ACDSee is similar, but costs $50~$100. It was explained to me in this thread: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Oaj0 that Photoshop can do a *better* job, downsampling and sharpening simultaneously. I posted an example that attests to this. Still, for quick and cheap... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_darnton1 Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Those are good. My recommendation would be FastStone: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricklavoie Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 anyone heard of Photoshop..any flavor from v2 to element to CS3, not free but pretty sure everyone have it ; ) and the good thing is you can even do more stuff with it than just resizing..amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsimmons Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Gimp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augphoto Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 PIXresizer is great and it's free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbev Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 I second the "FastStone" reco. i hav eused it over the last 1-2 years and found it very helpful. I use it for resizing and renaming. Slick and free... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obakesan Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 another vote for irfanview ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenacjed Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 FastStone is a good recomendation. Good viewer that can do quick and basic modifications to images, has batch capability as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petemillis Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Spencer, what system you using? If on WinXP, then there is a Microsfot "powertoy" called "image resizer" that is a free download. It's so simple - right click > resize > then select the size you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenspencer Posted March 11, 2008 Author Share Posted March 11, 2008 Thanks for the recommendations, but Irfanview is terrible. At first, the resized image looks great. But with the slightest zoom-in or enlargement, the image looks so mega-pixelish that it could have been taken on webcam. And I'm not even making them that much smaller, I'm just getting them to 3MB so they'll fit on this site. I'll try PowerToy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emre Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 You must be doing something wrong. Irfanview uses Lancsoz resampling, which is among the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenspencer Posted March 11, 2008 Author Share Posted March 11, 2008 FastStone is perfect, thank you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Emre, It's because he doesn't understand the difference between compressing the hell out of a full sized image and resizing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_shriver Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Also consider ImageMagick. Very command line oriented -- handy for batch operations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sai Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I like Picturetry www.picturetray.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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