gHacks technology news » resize images http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:38:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Auto Resize Email Picture Attachments In Thunderbird http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/23/auto-resize-email-picture-attachments-in-thunderbird/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/23/auto-resize-email-picture-attachments-in-thunderbird/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:52:51 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=15642 mozilla thunderbirdModern digital cameras can produce large photos which makes it difficulty to send them to email recipients due to their sizes. Problems become apparent when the sending of the email takes a long time but also when the emails are rejected by the recipient’s email provider due to their total size. Computer users can resize the photos and pictures on their local computer system to decrease their size or upload them on the Internet to send the link to the shared photos to the email recipient instead.

The Auto Resize JPEG extension for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client offers another possibility. The extension will automatically resize pictures that are attached in the email client before they are send out by the user.

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The Thunderbird extension will automatically recognize jpg image attachments and display a prompt after clicking on the send button. It is possible to optimize the images or skip the optimization. The options of the add-on contain settings to always optimize images in the email client (which will remove the prompt after clicking on the send button) and to specify a minimum height and width. The default values are set to 1024 pixels each. Options to change the quality level would be nice.

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The extension for the Thunderbird email client can be very handy for users who regularly send image attachments in their email messages. It can save them time and bandwidth (and probably a few emails from angry recipients who received large emails). Auto Resize JPEG is available from the Mozilla Thunderbird website. It is currently only available for the Windows operating system.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/23/auto-resize-email-picture-attachments-in-thunderbird/feed/ 6 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 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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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/23/image-resizer/feed/ 7 Resize images online http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/09/resize-images-online/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/09/resize-images-online/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:36:08 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/09/resize-images-online/ Most readers might think that it does not make sense to resize images online if you have a image viewer or image manipulation software installed which is able to perform the same task faster and without privacy concerns. I can only think of two uses where resizing images online would make sense.

I only have paint at work which is a basic image manipulation program that supports only a few image formats. The only way to resize images for a forum for instance would be with an online converter. The second would be for users who have problems using a software that is able to do it. The online method is easy and requires little user input to use.

It takes five steps to resize an image, they are:

  1. Browse your computer and select an image
  2. Select the maximum image size from predefined formats.
  3. Apply special effects (optional)
  4. Set Compression level
  5. Click Resize

This is very easy even for novice users. If you are looking for something like this bookmark it. Got other nice little sites that do similar things ? Let me know.

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