re size photos

[cbutton69]

I maintain sites for Pet Pro Life and OC Animal League, both pet rescue and adoption not-for-profit organizations. I have to resize dozens of pictures each week as we get new dogs and cats. I always use Xtreme Pro for resizing. It's quick and does a great job. I resize all full-size pictures to 250 pixels (wide) and thumbnails to 160 pixels (wide). Height is whatever, maintaining aspect ratio.

[gwpriester]

Charlie - Not so good resizing horses and larger animals.

[Burpee]

Gary, people do it all the time. Where do you think ponies came from

[Bob C.]

I often use the free program called Irfanview to resize ( it has several presets and percentage settings) It has several algorithms to choose from depending on the type picture or speed vs quality etc.

It allows batch processing and a one click "Auto Adjust colors" setting that often produces my best results nearly instantly. The program also allows one click "Sharpen", "Rotation" and surprisingly Irfanview does the best job of increasing the size of a picture ( a mostly never satisfactory procedure).

Many more things and all free.

[covoxer]

Yes. But there is another freeware programm that I prefer to Irfan. It's called XnView. It has very large set of adjustments, transformations and filters. All can be set and used in the batch mode. It also has very convenient interface.
Certainly worth a try.

[cbutton69]

Charlie - Not so good resizing horses and larger animals.

Hey, Gary! You may be right, but neither of my clients rescue anything larger than mastiffs.