There are many ways to resize an image. From desktop programs to online image resizers, but most importantly I am looking for something that is the most convenient way to do it. It must be really easy and automatic. I can say that nearly all of the image editor software is able to resize a picture but I have to run the image editing software, load the picture, resize and save it. This involves a lot of steps for resizing just one photo. Of course there are batch image resizers but most of them are sharewares.
What if I tell you I found the ultimate solution to image resizing? You do not need to do anything and it will automatically resize your photo when you attach it to your Outlook to send it to a friend, or even sending the photo to your friend via Windows Live Messenger or Skype.
All you need to do is install Shrink Pic. It automatically detects when you’re sending large photo files and compresses them in the background. Shrink Pic runs in the background. It has a taskbar icon which tells you it’s waiting for photos to be sent.
Then, when it detects that you’re sending a large photo, it automatically creates a temporary copy, resizes it and sends it instead. It gives you a notice message, so you’ll know the photo you sent was resized. Of course, the original photo doesn’t change, only the temporary copy.
You can control how Shrink Pic resizes your photos. Select between three automatic resize levels or enter your own custom sizes. Shrink Pic also recognizes rotated photos (portrait layout) and resizes them intelligently, so you don’t need to worry about that too.
If you don’t want Shrink Pic to automatically resize your images, just right click on the Shrink Pic icon on your traybar and uncheck Enable.
Currently Shrink Pic is able to support automatic image resizing in:
Web browsers
* Internet Explorer
* Firefox
* Opera
Email clients
* Microsoft Outlook
* Outlook express
* Thunderbird
* Eudora
* Poco Mail
* Incredimail
* As long as you’re using the support web browser, Shrink Pic will compress photos that you send via Web based email services such as Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail.
Instant messaging
* Skype
* MSN Messenger
When I first installed Shrink Pic, I didn’t know how to operate it and I was looking high and low for the GUI. I viewed the demo included after the installation, and found out that I didn’t need to do anything!
Shrink Pic is only at version 1. Give it more time and I believe Shrink Pic can grow into a very powerful and useful program. I hope in future Shrink Pic is able to automatically to link the aspect ratio of both width and height to keep the image from becoming distorted. Also support for FTP applications such as FlashFXP. Most importantly, this nice utility is FREE!
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I take back what I said about Gmail in post #10. Actually, I got shrinkpic to work with WindowsMail, Hotmail, Gmail, Aol mail and Yahoo mail as long as I connected to the webmail systems using Firefox 2 on my Vista SP1 system. But it wouldn’t work when I made the connections via Internet Explorer 7. There must be an IE7 setting that I have wrong. Sure would like to know what it is.
it’s working on my vista sp1. ok with windows mail and hotmail.
but it doesn’t work with gmail.
does anyone know how to get Shrink Pic to work on Vista?
thanks Raymond. I have been looking for something like this for Vista though as it doesn\’t have ANY resize facility with its mail program. Any ideas??
Good advice gives people
v.good man
Inifan, shrinkpictures.com works but it involves a few steps in order to resize a picture.
If you use Shrink Pic, you don’t even need to do anything other than installing it for the first time and it will automatically resize your picture when you attach it to an email.
How about shrinkpictures.com for resizing?
@William, yeap.. i have been using it for several years… But too bad it didnt support Vista…
Cool program. However, I use another program and I find it a lot easier to resize my images. Its part of the Microsoft PowerToys (Windows XP) and its called Image Resizer (microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx).
All you have to do is highlight all the files that you want to resize. Right click it, and click resize. From there you can actually set the size of the pictures to be resized to, and you have an option of whether you want it to create a duplicate file with the resized resolution, or just overwrite your current images.
Raymond thanx