looking for a tool o resize/downsize JPEG photos for e-mail

[masu]

looking for a tool o resize/downsize JPEG photos for e-mail

do you know some good tools with filesize and image quality preview?

[m_s]

If you use MS Office, and specifically Outlook for email, then the image tools that come with that are pretty good.  Otherwise, Google's Picasa 2 does a good job (though it consistently crashes my machine).  I use FastStone Image Viewer, which is free and good for so many reasons.

[Carol Haynes]

Have a look at the WindowsXP Power Tools in downloads section at Microsoft.com There is a resize tool there which adds a right click to the explorer menu which lets you resize one or more images - you can select whether to replace the original or output them to another file/folder.

[AbteriX]

FastStone Image Viewer have a preview

- Save as...
- choose Typ
- [Erweitert...]


- Click to enlarge -


http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Free for Home Users


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Edit, FYI:

Version 2.27    (Nov 02, 2005)
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    * Add an option in the Email-Images window that allows images to
be sent as a self-extracting EXE file (another option is ZIP file);
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Current is Version 2.5    (Apr 21, 2006)

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You can also use FSIV as portable version on an thump drive.

[mouser]

might be nice to have a drag and drop program for doing this really quickly - drag files into one half of the window.  drag them out to another program and the program will automatically recompress them in tiny size for destination program, without ever modifying the original.

[zeemar]

May be this will help ...


ImageCrush ( supports drag and Drop)

Link: http://www.mdibb.net/software/imagecrush_-_quick_image_resizer/

[gjehle]

irfan view, even got batch processing

[rkrause]

Shrink Pic is free, fast, and automatic. If you don't need to tweak or see previews, this may be all you need to quickly email photos at appropriately reduced file sizes.

http://www.onthegosoft.com/shrink_pic.htm

Rick

[rjbull]

You might try Resize, freeware by Peter Bone

Resize allows you to resize images. Reduction is done by pixel averaging, which gives much better quality than sub-sampling. The program allows you to resize a batch of images and also convert to JPEG. This is useful for creating thumbnails for web pages or resizing the frames for animated gifs.

The resizing algorithm produces high quality images because it uses all available information from the source image. Most other image resizing software only use a small amount of information from the source image.