Good photo resizing tool?

[Yeekim]

As a proud owner of a new digital soapbox, I have a noobish question: is there an editor that would enable me to resize a folderful of pictures alltogether, so it becomes easier to mail them?
Say I have one hundred pictures with a size of 3264x2448 pixels and I want to make a copy with a pixelcount 7 or 8 times smaller of each one... I can't believe there is no easier way than having to change the size manually one hundred times?

 

[Turner]

Paint will reduce the size for you. If you want to reduce it to about 1/8, you would 'stretch' it by 12%, and that would reduce it for you.

Any good imaging program (Someone will shot out The Gimp here in about five seconds) can hand this as well.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Infranview is a pretty handy tool. If you want simple resizing or cropping abilities without a bunch of extras, I recommend this. I also use it as an image viewer.

Or if you have Windows XP, there is a "PowerToy" you can download, that will resize multiple images at once. (I haven't tried this.)

After some googleing (batch resizer) I came up with these links (look good, but I have no personal experience with them)

http://adionsoft.net/fastimageresize/
http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize

 

[Zelig]

Windows Live photogallery works pretty well.

 

[Yeekim]

Infranview is a pretty handy tool. If you want simple resizing or cropping abilities without a bunch of extras, I recommend this. I also use it as an image viewer.

Works like charm! Kudos

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Irfanview has a very, very useful bath resizer tool. Its also got a lossless batch rotate which is excellent if you take a lot of pictures with the camera sideways and dont want to go through each one to rotate them back.

 

[Cutlass]

http://www.imageresizer.com/ fast way to resize every pic in a folder.

 

[warpus]

You can batch resize photos in photoshop.

 

[againsttheflow]

How warpus?

 

[againsttheflow]

Or if you have Windows XP, there is a "PowerToy" you can download, that will resize multiple images at once. (I haven't tried this.)

Oh wow, just tried this. I know quite a few people that would have given their right arm for an option in the right click menu like this one. It was one of those things with XP that you just couldn't figure out how nothing like it ever made it in. Of course, many of those folks will now be using Vista...

 

[warpus]

Let me google that for you

 

[againsttheflow]

Thanks, one sometimes forgets. :\

 

[Jan H]

this is a nice freeware tool written in Java:
http://www.photo-freeware.net/bdsizer.php

 

[alcal]

If you don't want to install a new software, then use imageshack's resize option.