Easy image resizing for the digital camera happy - Image Resizer Powertoy clone for Vista & Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)

AVIRAJ AJGEKAR'S BLOG... - ImageResizer for Windows XP & Windows Vista/Windows 7 (both 32-bit/64-bit)

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Many of them use these for sharing with their friends and families. Often users try to mail these pictures over the email or instant messenger by zipping them but it does not help much. Approximately a 5 MB images will be compressed to up to 4 or 4.5 MB but that is also the very high size per image sending via email or messenger. Sometimes we use our trustful Microsoft Paint application for resizing images, which is cool but again for a single or couple of images it is ok to open up the image and to “Save As” Well imagine what if you have around 20 30 40 50 100+ images for resizing. Then it is a painful task for doing manual resizing.

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What’s the solution?

Well, the solution is to use a Image Resizer tool that we would talk about. An easy to use tool for resizing multiple images within few seconds. We are talking about ImageResizer PowerToy that was available for Windows XP and folks at CodePlex re-written the same application in C++ for Windows Vista & Windows 7 including support for 64-Bit version of Windows.

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CodePlex - Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows

“Project Description
This is a clone of the Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP -- a PowerToy that allows you to right-click on one or more image files in Windows Explorer to resize them. This clone was created to extend support to non-XP and 64-bit versions of Windows (including Windows 7 & Vista)

 

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Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows - Image Resizer 2.0

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ImageResizer-2.0.msi
application, 2111K, uploaded Apr 17…

ImageResizer-2.0_x64.msi
application, 1606K, uploaded Apr 17 …

ImageResizer-2.0.zip
source code, 30K, uploaded Apr 17 …

Release Notes

Version 2.0 of Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows has been re-written in C++. Because of this, 64-bit is now supported! Also note that the Alternate UI application has been removed (as it should no longer be needed).

ChangeLog
Since the Beta:

• Input validation.
• 12 MB smaller setup file. (Work Item #1230)

Since version 1.1:

• Windows 64-bit support. (Work Item #480)
• Alternate UI removed.
• Simplified setup.
• License changed to EPL.

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And here I was the other day manually resizing some images. I’d forgotten all about this utility… sigh. Funny that I first blogged about the original two years ago almost to the day.

(via @shanselman- tweet)

 

Related Past Post XRef:
Image Resizer PowerToy for XP and Vista - Easy Resizing of Images, Pictures, Digital Photos, etc via Windows Explorer