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Miscellaneous Software

Resize a Batch of Photos for Webpages, Sharing, Presentations

SUMMARY: Fotosizer for Windows allows you to resize and rotate a batch of photos, plus you can apply effects such as sepia tone.

Ever need to resize a group of photos for insertion into a web page, to share with friends (who may not need the full details of your 10+ megapixel digital camera photographs), or for placing in a PowerPoint presentation? Or what about if you want to send smaller thumbnails of your photos via electronic mail?

Fotosizer lets you perform batch resizing of images and more on Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, and Vista machines. Images can be resized to a custom pixel size or a percentage of their widths and heights, and aspect ratios can be maintained if you have a source group of photos with varying sizes. Image quality can be modified in case file size is an issue. The output format can be changed between BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF. Plus, by clicking the down arrow next to "Optional settings", you can apply sepia, negative, or black and white filters to your photos. Or, rotate digital camera photos taken of tall subjects.

Fotosizer resizing a group of photos and applying a sepia tone

Fotosizer is freeware and supports over a dozen languages including English, German, and Korean. It can be downloaded at the following address:

Fotosizer - http://www.fotosizer.com/

Results of the Fotosizer resize and sepia tone operations

This tip was written regarding Fotosizer v1.25.0.414 on a Windows Vista machine. Features, information, and screenshots for other versions / operating systems may vary.

Note that during the installation you may be asked if you would like to install a web browser toolbar and change your web browser's default search engine. If you do not wish to do so, be sure to read ALL screens when installing this software package instead of blindly clicking "Next".