This is probably the simplest and easiest way to resize your photos/images ever!
You download only ONE executable file anywhere on your computer (say to your Desktop), you drag your image files (single or multiple files) to it, and it will create your new resized images!
It only takes a few seconds to resize your images and you don’t even need to install anything! There’s no easier way than this! And of course, ahem, it’s free!
The application is called Picture Resizer and it has become my most favorite freeware now 
(Especially that I have to do resizing every now and then for this blog!)
The application file comes with its default setting (the resolution size) but of course, if you want to tweak it further, you can.
For example, when you download the application, it will automatically resize your image files to 400 pixels. If you want to resize them to 1024, simple rename the application file from PhotoResize400.exe to PhotoResize1024.exe! Nothing can be as simpler as this!
It will preserve the quality and also the dimension of the image. If you want to manually set the dimension, simple rename it to PhotoResizeWxH.exe where W is the width and H is the height!
If you take a lot of photos often and like to upload it to your blog, site, or online photo albums, I’m sure at some point you’ll have to resize it to smaller sizes or else the uploads can take forever!
I usually set my camera to take photos in 2Mb-ish resolution but resize my photos to 1600×1200 when I want to upload them online. Imagine the pain of opening Photoshop/GIMP/Other photo tools, resizing them, and resaving them again.
Of course if you always edit your photos before you upload them, then this software is not for you. However, if you constantly have to deal with images and resizing them, there’s nothing else out there that can beat the simplicity and the power of this freeware! (if there is, please let me know!)
Go to Photo Resizer’s site and try it yourself.
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Thanks Michael, it’s good to know about tools like this that are available out there for simplifying the process of resizing your photos that’s for sure!
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Nice find this is always an issue of mine seeing I’m simply not an images guy!
Thanks for sharing Michael!
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or you could use the Microsoft XP Powertoy Image Resizer.
It build into the explorer context menu – so you just right click on an image hit resize. You can choose resolutions etc and do batches, if you like that kinda thing.
Great for shrinking photos for the web..
Hi bushbaby, is there one for Windows Vista?
I like this software, easy to use, thanks for sharing!
I use what bushbaby talked about as well.
You should try it out too. I’ve written a post about it myself few months ago.
I don’t know if it would be okay to put a link here, but if not please do edit it out
http://www.mymytech.com/quickest-way-to-resize-an-image-with-few-clicks/
I never knew such a thing existed from Microsoft. I have been using a site called reshade.com. I came across it when I was looking for a resizing tool. I was searching for a tool to help make my images bigger. I like that I was not only able to make them larger, but I could do so without losing focus or sharpness of my images.
I just downloaded this program and will try it this weekend with all the other 1000 things I need to do. Thanks for sharing this info with us.
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Wow, great software. I’ll have to let everyone know this is here… Right now me going to install this software.