gHacks technology news » image resizer http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:09:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Imgares Drag and Drop Image Resizing http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/28/imgares-drag-and-drop-image-resizing/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/28/imgares-drag-and-drop-image-resizing/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:42:35 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5135 There are to many image resizers in this world. I think that’s a statement that I would immediately sign. If you develop a new image resizer you will have to offer additional features and value that others do not provide. Imgares comes with a few that are not that common. But first things first. The software supports batch resizing of images that can be dragged and dropped into the program interface. Users who prefer to browse for their files can do that as well.

The images are then shown as thumbnails in the left pane of the application and the user can tweak a few settings before he hits the start button. It’s possible to rotate the images, select an output folder and chose if the images should be reduced by percentage or constant values. It is also possible to change the output format to another image format.

The functions described above are supported by most, if not all, image resizers on earth. The additional features that might make Imgares interesting to some users are the following:

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  • Add Background – Adds a background color to the image and increases the size of the image by a defined margin.
  • Add Text – Text can be added to the images.Colors, Fonts and alignment can be selected.
  • Change Colors – Change Light, Contrast and Red, Green & Blue values of the images.
  • Create Slideshow – Creates a movie (avi) slideshow from the images with transition effects.

Imgares is definitely not the usual image resizer. Especially the movie slideshow feature is something that is not that common.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/28/imgares-drag-and-drop-image-resizing/feed/ 3 Batch Image Resizer Fotosizer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/batch-image-resizer-fotosizer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/batch-image-resizer-fotosizer/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 06:42:57 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4085 Image Resizers are available by the dozens on the Internet, even batch image resizers are not uncommon anymore and it boils down to taste rather than functionality or speed when making a decision for or against a specific product. Fotosizer adds itself to the list of batch image resizers. It comes with a clean interface that displays thumbnails of every image that is loaded into the application.

Supported features are to browse for files and folders or to drag and drop them into the program interface. The resizing options allow to change the resolution of each image by percentage or fixed width and a few preset dimensions can be selected to make them usable in iPhones, iPods or the PSP.

Other options that directly affect the resized image are the image quality and two checkboxes to maintain aspect ratio and preserve width and height by orientation.

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Several output parameters can be defined as well. The output file format can be selected as well as the output folder and the filename of the new files. Several variations are available for that purpose, for example adding day,month and year information to the filename.

Several optional parameters are available that can rotate the images or apply a black and white or negative filter.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/batch-image-resizer-fotosizer/feed/ 5 Squash Batch Image Resizer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/31/squash-batch-image-resizer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/31/squash-batch-image-resizer/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:40:45 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3673 Squash is a lightweight fast batch image resizer. I could end the article here because the previous sentenced is a good summary of what Squash is able to do. Add multiple images to Squash, select a new size for them, and click on Resize images. That’s the process in detail.

It’s possible to specify a destination directory for the resized images, add a suffix to the filename – something like thumb or small would do – and if you want to overwrite existing images in that directory.

There is no preview of the output images, no information on file size, no choice of file extension. As I said it’s lightweight and does only one thing at the moment. I still like Squash because it is easy to use, mainly because of the missing options of course.

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Squash is available for Windows and Linux. [via Genbeta]

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/31/squash-batch-image-resizer/feed/ 5 Multiple Image Resizer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/12/multiple-image-resizer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/12/multiple-image-resizer/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:05:09 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/12/multiple-image-resizer/ I always disliked resizing multiple images using the image viewers that I have been using throughout the day. It was not a problem if I had to resize one or two images but a folder with dozens or hundreds of images would simply take to long to resize or edit.

Multiple Image Resizer [homepage] is a software for Windows that requires the .net Framework from Microsoft. It – as the name suggests – offers functions to resize, and edit, multiple images at once. To make things as easy as possible it offers functions to scan for images, add folders and the images within or add individual images that should be processed.

Images can be previewed if the user selects them. Several processing options besides resizing the images can be selected. Those are the options crop, rotate and flip, border, add text and overlay image. By default only the resizing option is selected.

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Each option has its own configuration menu. The resizing menu for instance offers several ways to resize the images. The user can select a certain width and height in pixels, a percentage value, a dimension and several other options.

A text can be added to the image. This can be used to sort of watermark images or put a small copyright notice in a corner of the image. The font and its color as well as the position of the text can be selected.

The processed images can be saved in various different formats including the most used ones like jpg and png.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/12/multiple-image-resizer/feed/ 5 Image Resizer http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/23/image-resizer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/23/image-resizer/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:38:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/23/image-resizer/ I have to regularly resize images to make them fit into my articles here at Ghacks which I used to create using a combination of a screenshot software and the image manipulation software GIMP. While this method worked flawlessly it simply took to long to start GIMP and resize the image.

I therefor decided to look for an easier way to resize the images and I found it in the software Image Resizer. All I need to do now is to select all images that I want to be resized and click on ok to process them all. I did create a new image profile before to add the best fitting size for my website and saved that as the standard profile that will be used when resizing images.

Image Resizer offers several other functions that could be useful for some users. It is possible to choose the output file format, the output quality, the name of the newly created images, watermarks and if the new images should overwrite the original ones and where they should be saved if not.

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