Image Resizer Tool for Windows 7 and Vista - PC Software Help

Anyone who has a digital camera has emailed a picture or pictures to someone at one point or another. With today's high megapixel cameras and their large file size it makes it harder to email more than one or two pictures at a time for fear of filling up someone's mailbox or going over the attachment size limit.

Windows XP has a suite of applications that are used to customize and tweak your operating system called XP PowerToys. One of those programs is called the Image Resizer tool and allows you to change the size of an image file easily allowing you to do things like reduce it to make it easier to email.

Unfortunately this tool only works with XP and not Windows 7 or Vista. But CodePlex offers a version called the Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows that will work in Windows 7 and Vista and it’s free to download and use. Plus it works the same way as the XP version.

After installing it simply right click on your picture and choose Resize Pictures and then choose what size you want to change them to.

You can also highlight a group of pictures and resize them all at once. The tool doesn’t actually change the size of your original file but rather makes a copy of the file in the same folder. The file name will be the same but have the file size after it. For example if your original file is called Birthday.jpg and you choose the medium size then the copy of the file will be called Birthday (Medium).jpg.

Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows can be downloaded here and there is even a 32 bit and 64 bit version.

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