Image Resizer Powertoy Clone Resizes Pictures Easily
Windows only: The Image Resizer Powertoy Clone adds an option to the Windows explorer context menu for quickly resizing pictures—without opening an image editor.
Using the utility couldn’t be simpler—just right-click one or more pictures, select Resize Pictures, choose the resolution you want to resize the images to, and the newly resized images will show up alongside the originals—making this a very handy tool for quickly resizing images to share over email or instant message.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because the utility is a clone of the earlier Image Resizer Powertoy—but that one only worked on Windows XP, and only for 32-bit, but this one is both Vista and 64-bit friendly for your image resizing tasks.
The Image Resizer tool is both free and open source, available for Windows only. For more, check out the previously mentioned Bulk Image Resizer, or take a look at the top five image editing tools. Thanks, syndprod!
Image Resizer Powertoy Clone [CodePlex]
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hey, what are those little green checks on your thumbnails??
perryizgr8
@perryizgr8: dropbox i think
pdfetc
Would be a lot nicer if you could pic how you want the smaller pics named
SamikshaGlabrio
Nice, I miss that powertoy when migrating to vista.
sjkeegs
Crashes Explorer in Windows Seven when you right click any image. Right click menu never comes up and you have to restart Explorer.
Uninstalled...
jsmorley
I stick with VSO Image Resizer. It's free, though nagware. Much more powerful.
mookster
Nice, I was looking for exactly this! Yesterday...
@perryizgr8: dropbox
Jacob Burch
This is an installation option of XnView as well, which also puts a few other nifty things in the context menu, like changing format and editing IPTC.
pale_blue_eyes
I'm happy with Photoresize(400), It supports drag and drop and gets it's paramaters from the name of the executable.
Download PhotoResize400.exe Copy and paste into my send to folder, paste again, rename to PhotoResize600.exe, 800, 1200, and so on (this also supports a ton of options through simple name hacks ~ links below lead to these).
Right click -> Send to - PhotoResize400 = 400px wide image appears with a -400 next to the original.
[www.rw-designer.com]
[www.rw-designer.com]
cubexombi
13mb for a Powertoy?
Mr_Human
Very slick. I wonder if it does any compression in the process and if I lose data. I like being able to resize pictures with a right-click though, that's pretty handy, especially for posting images to the Web.
@jsmorley: An app crashed in a beta operating system? THE HORROR. ;)
I imagine it'll update when Win7 is actually you know, released.
Prish resizer duplicates the ease-of-use of the XP Powertoy in Windows (and maybe Windows 7, haven't tried it yet) I've been using it for close to a year now with good results, and it was also recently "mentioned" in a tweet from Scott Hanselman: "Prish Image Resizer. Install this now, show your spouse, and bask in at least 3 days of lovin' [bit.ly] "
Link to tweet: [twitter.com]
Mark Faccin
That's kinda neat. I like to use Windows (Live) Photo Gallery though for my picture browsing needs. Essentially does the same. Also, if using the built in Photo Gallery of Vista, you can just hit email pictures, and it will automatically resize the pictures in the email, thus no needing to resize and save it to insert it. Just tried it in the Live version, seems they brough that back as well. I don't know any other real reason to needing to resize a photo other than email, and perhaps if you have your own website. I honestly almost never open my Pictures folder anymore because I just open Live Photo Gallery these days.
@cubexombi: This is awesome
Mr_Human
@phoenix:
Not being critical of the app because it crashes Explorer in Seven, just pointing out that it happened to me so others running Seven will be forewarned. Have a great day.
jsmorley
@jsmorley: thanks
Graham Crocker
The quality is lossy though, none of it can be compared to if you were to resize in photoshop.
ChiaraCachophony
@perryizgr8: Yes, it's Dropbox. In other news, Dropbox is totally awesome.
Fastone image viewer is free, fast, and allows you to re-size, redirect, edit and rename individual or batchs. It covers 90% of my photo editing needs also. I download a group from my camera, open Fastone batch and send a lightened web version to one directory, a print version to another directory, Add text, labels, arrows, etc. ONE PROGRAM and short learning curve....
deanes
@deanes:
FastStone also has a stand-alone batch resizing program which is also free and very capable.
[www.faststone.org]
jsmorley
The Resizer PowerToy uses some terrible compression. I suppose it is good enough for email, but that's about it.
slaughter33
I second that. Dropbox is awesome, my thumb drives don't think so though. Glad us Linux users weren't left out on this gem.
@SamikshaGlabrio:
Try Easy Thumnails. It's also free. [www.fookes.com]
It's a stand-alone app, however during installation it offers the right-click context menu option which is similar to what you have here.
The software allows you to:
- Resize the pictures to whatever pixel resolution you want.
- Name them however you want (overwrite, prefix, suffix)
- Set compression ratio, algorithm, and other basics
- Output them to a completely different directory
@jsmorley:
Thanks for the heads up. That's the question I had as well. You've saved me 10 minutes of my life.
I have been using Photo Gadget for over 2 years now and it does the trick in the same way
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zia
Right clicked image. Selected resize pictures. Nothing happened. Uninstalled. FTL.
Pterasaur.
pterasaur
I love this feature in XP... I've been using it for ages. It's the fastest way to resize a picture since you don't have to open a program, open the file, edit, save, and close again. Plus it seems to do a good job with keeping the images crisp.