The ability to shrink the size of a photo is extremely important. That’s because many websites where you may wish to share the photo (Facebook or MySpace, for example) will not allow you to upload extremely large pictures to their servers. Unfortunately, there is no built-in feature to allow you to do this easily in Windows. However, that doesn’t mean you are stuck. Numerous programs exist that will let you shrink the size of your photo and even do some basic editing on it.
AVS Image Converter
For those who want more than just the ability to change the size of a particular photo, AVS Image Converter offers a variety of functions that will allow you to do more than just change the size of your picture (though it definitely offers that feature as well). The software will also let you touch up the picture to fix problems such as red eye and bad lighting. You can also do batch conversion of the photos to other formats so that if your pictures are all camera RAW format (a format used by professional DSLR cameras that is quite large) they can be converted all at once to JPG format (the most common format on the Internet). The software is free to try, however, it leaves a watermark on your photos unless you pay a $39 fee for full activation.
Free Picture Resize Starter
As the name implies, this software program is 100 % free and works quite well to allow you to resize your pictures. You can change them all to a uniform size or choose a size for individual pictures. In addition, when you use a single size for your photos, you can choose to do a batch conversion so that you can simply select a large number of photos and then resize them all at once.
Image Optimizer
Image Optimizer comes either as a downloaded program or a Web-based program. To use the Web-based program, you simply select the file and upload it to the website. The site will then shrink it for you on the spot for free. Note, however, that if you choose to use the downloaded program, it will do the same job and do it faster (since you needn’t wait to upload your file). Like AVS Image Converter, the desktop version of Image Optimizer will leave a watermark on your photos unless you pay a fee. The Web version doesn’t leave the same watermark.
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