Prep photos for the web fast with FreeSizer

One downside of the ever-increasing resolution of digital cameras, as well as mobile phones, is that they produce massive images. They're great for printing or production environments, but not so useful if you just want to email them to friends or upload them to a blog. Oversized images make web pages load slowly without adding anything to the overall experience, while they produce attachments vast in size that take an age to send, and could get you blacklisted by friends and family for tying up their Internet connection and inbox while downloading them.

While you can manually resize images using your image editor, the process of opening, resizing and then resaving can quickly become tedious. Thank goodness, then, for FreeSizer, a free tool that enables you to quickly and easily resize a batch of images quickly and easily without affecting the original files.

This is a very simple drag and drop utility that has numerous common picture sized pre-programmed into it. Launch the utility and browse to the pictures that you want to resize. Click and drag each one onto the main FreeSizer window. You should see a list of the files to be converted stacking up here. Now select a profile to use when resizing them.

If none of the presets work for you, just choose Custom and then move to the Setting tab, where you can enter the dimensions that you want to use for the destination. You can also change the suffix added to the file name of the resized pictures here. It's also possible to set a different target folder to the original one here. Back on the Profile tab, you can get a preview of the resized image by clicking Preview with selected profile. When you're ready to resize for real, click Start Resizing and let the program do all the hard, tedious work for you.

FreeSizer 1.0, which is also available as a dedicated 64-bit build, is a freeware download for PCs running for Windows XP or later. A portable version is also available from FreeSizer website.