Photo Resizer

If you own a newer digital camera, you know that the images they produce are much larger than the average computer screen resolution. Most people configure their computer screen resolution to 800 by 600. A 3 mega pixel camera produces an image almost 7 times larger. As a result, larger images are displayed much more slowly because the image has to be resized by the software each time the image is displayed. If the computer has an older processor or less sophisticated video graphics card, the speed can be annoyingly slow.

The solution -- Digital Photo Resizer. This utility allows you to resize all the images in a folder to fit the screen resolution of your choice. The original images are left intact. The resized images can be placed on a CD-ROM and shared with friends no matter what level of computer hardware they have.

To operate the program, simply select a source folder, the directory where the images are located that you want resized. Next, select the target folder, the directory where you want the resized images copied. Next, select the screen resolution for the images. Next select the compression ratio for the .jpg files. Finally, select one of three possible resampling filters. Resampling refers to the method used to reduce the size of each image. Finally click the resize button. As each image is resized, a thumbnail is displayed in the upper right hand corner of the program window. The files retain their file names unless you elect to have non-jpg images converted to jpg format. The advantage of .jpg files is that their size is dramatically reduced over straight bitmap formats such as .bmp files.

There are three resampling filters from which to choose. "None" is the fastest and "Lanczos" is the slowest. "Fast Linear" produces the best results in the least time.