Easy Image Resizing
Here is a very useful and easy to use image resizing tool for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/30247
It’s an updated version of the Windows XP Powertoy, which places a right click menu that allows you to resize single or multiple images with two clicks. For web design clients who are intimidated by the complexity of Photoshop and similar image editors, this tool is perfect.
I am a 15 year Photoshop veteran, but I found this tool to be refreshingly quick and simple.
Digital cameras take some pretty good, high resolution photos. Cameras with a higher Megapixel capability can produce photos of a higher pixel resolution, and can thereby be printed at a larger dimension. However, these megapixel images are typically too large for display on a website. Web design clients who manage their own website content via a content management system, such as WordPress, often need to reduce such megapixel images prior to posting them to their website.
For example a 3 Megapixel image has a pixel dimension of 2048 x 1536. This image will print out nice, however if you try to view it on a computer screen, it will most likely exceed the viewable area or be resized to fit in the viewable area. That’s because the average computer screen has a pixel resolution of 1024 x 768. So any image larger than that size is overkill.
But the main disadvantage to high resolution images is excessive file size. A 3 megapixel image will often have a very large file size, like 2 megabytes, give or take. That’s a huge file size for one image and can significantly slow down your computer. Resizing the same photo to 1024 x 768 also reduces the file size well below 1 megabyte, which can be downloaded and viewed much faster.
