Image Tuner 3.1 batch edits photos fast and for free
There they sit: a large group of photos you need to process for one reason or another. Perhaps you simply want to rename them to something more descriptive than the choice made by your digital camera. Perhaps they need resizing to share with someone else. Whatever the reason, wading through that little lot by hand is going to take you some time.
Thankfully, there’s a free tool that can do all the hard work for you. Image Tuner 3.1 is a small, perfectly formed tool designed to simplify the process of batch-editing a large group of photos. And the icing on the cake is the fact it’s free.
The software itself is a tiny 2MB download, and runs on any version of Windows from 98 onwards, including the forthcoming Windows 8. Once installed, launch the app and either drag your chosen photos on to the program window or pick a folder.
Next, choose your options -- pick a folder to save your converted photos to, opt to resize if you wish using the many options supplied (a number of presets are supplied for quick and easy resizing), then choose to add a watermark, convert to a different file format (JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF and TIF are all supported) and rename if necessary.
The final section, Effects, includes a number of basic correction tools, including colour balance, brightness/contrast, adding a border (confusingly called ‘Round’), flipping and rotating the photo. To see what effect your changes will have, select one of the photos in the list and double-click its thumbnail for a pop-up preview.
Once done, click the Process images button and watch as your changes are swiftly applied to the selected photos. The originals are left untouched, and you can save your presets using the Save Project button for use with another group of photos at a later date.
It all adds up to a simple, quick and fuss-free way to process a large amount of images at once.Image Tuner 3.1 is available as a freeware download for PCs running Windows 98 all the way up to Windows 8.
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