pennhaven on October 10th 2005
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Picture Resizer 1.0

I just tried Picture Resizer, thinking it might be an easy to use tool for resizing digital photo images for efficient streaming to a high definition television display. My display has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. This requires a typical 4:3 "landscape" aspect image to be resized to 1440 x 1080 to fit the display, and a 3:4 "portrait" image to be resized to 810 x 1080.

The program works for this purpose, but I found two problems. One is a serious bug and the other points to an improvement that would make this utility nearly perfect for this application.

First, when I drag a folder containing images to PhotoResize1440.exe it not only resizes the image files in the folder to 1440x1080, but it resizes the newly created resized images, and resizes those resized images, etc., etc., until there are dozens of copies of each image. Apparently there is bug that causes the program not to limit processing to the files that were originally in the folder but rather to loop through all the image files that the program itself creates.

Second, for the purpose I described, it would be much handier to have an option that controls the resizing to the height, rather than the width. i.e., PhotoResizeH1080.exe instead of PhotoResize1440.exe. This way all images, whether portrait or landscape could be resized to a height of 1080 pixels without disturbing the aspect ratio. The existing option of PhotoResizeWxH.exe would require separating landscape and portrait images before processing.

Thankyou for developing this program and making it available. I hope that you can devote a little work to it so that it can meet it's full potential.

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Vlasta on January 13th 2006 0

B&W jpegs are not supported in the current version (trying to keep the size of the tool as small as possible), but I will consider it in the future update

ajalan on February 9th 2006 0

I downloaded the 400.exe, but i found the same prog unde the name of 800exe.. What is the difference between these ? And wich shout i use ?
Geatings

Vlasta on February 10th 2006 0

The name of the tool controls the size of the output image and possibly other options as described on the main page. You have probably downloaded the 800.exe from some other website, it is OK to use it, but be aware that it may not be the latest version.

kenguy on February 11th 2006 0

Great tool! I think it has been asked above, but I would also like to be able to resize a file in a dir and keep the name. What I want to do is copy the files out to another folder, using a batch script, and then rename, so my link in the database will know the correct file.

Thanks for this awesome tool!

aber on March 22nd 2006 0

Brilliantly simple, simply brilliant! I have one wish, earlier mentioned above - to keep the original filename, in other words overwrite the original files. You mentioned above that it will be included in the next version. Can you say when that will be?

Vlasta on March 23rd 2006 0

Well, I can promise, there will be a new version before the end of April. This feature will be there as well as setting output quality. Maybe more.

Anonymous on June 6th 2006 0

I am a little confused regarding the resizing and the DPI. I have an image that is 205dpi and of size 2050x1540. I'd like to resize to 410x308 and maintain as much quality as possible.
I use the -q100 setting, and the -w410 setting, but this results in an image with 41dpi. Adding -d96 creates an image of 96dpi, but that is 960x721. What am I missing?

Vlasta on June 6th 2006 0

The main function of the application is to change the number of pixels, making the picture suitable for web publishing or archiving.

By default the tool is trying to preserve the physical dimensions of the picture by setting the dpi accordingly. What you see is just that.

Relatively many people request to be able to leave the pixels as they are and only set the dpi or vice versa. This will be one of the new options in the next version.

Anonymous on July 27th 2006 0

OK. My problem in previous message has been solved. Just downloaded the wrong version (from snapfiles.com, where it says that it suites 3 different win OS). Srry to have bothered you. It 's a real great tool! Thank you.

Anonymous on July 27th 2006 0

Hi there,
I tried to use FotoResizer as explained, but when trying to open it or drag a file to the icon I got the message that it is not a correct win32-application. My OS is XP-home. Any suggestions?