The Bottom Line
PIXresizer is a free tool to quickly reduce the size of one or many photos for use on the Web or email. Images are copied to a separate folder--there's no built-in email, FTP, or Web page creation.
Pros
- Freeware - no nags, ads, or spyware
- Easy to use.
- Popup tooltip help is provided for most options.
Cons
- Can't batch a subset of files in a folder.
- Can't crop - cropping would be a great addition.
Description
- Quickly resize one or many pictures for use on the Web or in email.
- Opens and saves JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF formats. Optionally output to grayscale.
- Select a new image size by percentage or by entering a custom size. Option to maintain aspect ratio.
- Rotate or print single images, or open the image in the default viewer.
- Generate a 600 pixel JPEG file with one-click "Apply recommended" button.
- You choose the location of resized files. Your original images are not altered.
- Maximum dimension is 1200 pixels, minimum dimension is 96 pixels.
- Logs and reports errors for images that could not be processed.
Guide Review - PIXresizer from Bluefive Software (Windows)
The purpose of PIXresizer is simply to create reduced copies of your pictures suitable for emailing and posting to the Web. It doesn't actually send the pictures for you; instead it copies them to the folder of your choosing. I would love to see a cropping option added to the program, but otherwise it's very simple to use and does exactly what it's meant to do. Although there is no control over JPEG quality, the program seems to do a good job on its own. PIXresizer requires less than 500 KB on disk, but for some reason, the download is 2.8 MB--a bit large. What more can I say? Oh, yeah... it's free!
