March 5, 2013
Several months ago, I told you about 7 free ways to batch edit your photos. While researching this post, I found many useful tools that can save you time when resizing, renaming, and editing multiple photos. Most of these tools were installed programs, and while they each come with many useful features, using them was confusing at times. Another problem with many of these tools is that you can’t use them to crop images.
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October 20, 2012
Let’s RIOT! No, not that way. That way gets people injured – never good. I’m referring to the “radical” image optimization tool that is one of the best, if not the best tool for… well… optimizing images of course. You might be wondering, but I don’t “optimize” images and you could be very correct… right now. But you will, especially after reading about Radical Image Optimization Tool, otherwise known as RIOT.
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October 15, 2012
Some of the most common edits your images will have to go through are simple things such as resize, rename, format conversion, basic color fixes, etc. While you can’t be expected to sit through an album of 300 photos, manually resizing and renaming each one, many of the common image viewers don’t let you do these things by batch. Don’t waste your time, though, just download one of the free tools below, and start batch-editing!
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October 5, 2012
As spoiled as it may sound, having to open a bulky image manipulation software like Paint.NET or Photoshop just to resize an image seems a little inefficient. If the single functionality that you require is to simply resize, there are easier ways to go about it. Being able to quickly resize an image benefits me in several ways throughout a day.
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August 23, 2012
If there is a single time-saving tip that I could ever offer to any writer, student, professional or anyone else that needs to produce documents with images, it’s the ability to bulk-resize images. When I first started writing online, I would resize all of my web page images individually, depending on the page that I [...]
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August 17, 2012
Everyone likes taking pictures every now and then. You might be only a holiday photographer, or mainly an Instagram photographer, but when you do take pictures, you want them to look good. Especially if you plan on sharing them or printing them. Professional photographers know all about compositions, and have the patience and equipment to get everything just right. But do you?
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August 17, 2012
Though it's a little difficult to gauge just how many webmasters browse MakeUseOf, any one that you talk to will let you know that image optimization and sparing every bit of bandwidth possible is a key to running a successful and affordable website. The PNG is the FLAC of the world of images. We all love PNGs. They are a lossless replacement to the patent-locked GIF and make transparency look beautiful.
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June 27, 2012
As a blogger and a normal guy who is running out of space on his hard drive, I am always on the lookout for a good image compression program. Thanks to the plethora of image editing apps available on the web, I am spoilt for choice. What I am looking for are fast, clean (i.e. uncluttered), and efficient image optimizers that are dead simple to use. I have found three so far.
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March 23, 2011
If you ever couldn’t email a digital photo or post it up on a website, typically it was because the image was too large in size. Even a standard 3 megapixel size iPhone photo, with the dimension of 768 x 1024 may be too large for posting on an online forum, though its resolution size [...]
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March 18, 2011
A lot of us will unanimously vouch that iPhoto 11 is the best way for Mac users to manage, edit, and share photos, but some Mac users may not take enough photos to warrant purchasing or bothering with the program. In addition, you may simply need to quickly resize images without bothering to open iPhoto, [...]
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December 16, 2010
One way to spice up your words is by adding related images to the text. The more and better images that you use, the spicier your stories will be. But in terms of webpages and blogs, more images also equal bigger page sizes and longer loading times – something that every web owner should avoid. [...]
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June 18, 2010
Great things come in small packages is a well worn cliché. But for software that’s a few megabytes in size, the saying doesn’t sound stale. So without further ado, let’s see what the free PicPick is all about and whether its size stands apart from its utility. PicPick (ver. 2.3.0) as the name suggests is [...]
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June 2, 2010
Image editors are a large breed. I have been a diehard IrfanView user ever since it came out. It very rightly blows Windows Viewer out of the water. But are there any similar image editors of its ilk; a fast, tiny image editor that can hold up its own with the best of the class? [...]
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March 23, 2010
Working in the online industry, I find myself taking lots and lots of screenshots. These screenshots may or may not be the right image size for the specific website they are destined for. Then resizing images adds another step to my web checklist. So if I could specify an entire folder or even be able to [...]
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February 26, 2010
As the megapixel size of cameras get larger (the standard size seems to be 8 megapixels and larger), it means that the photos from your camera will be larger in pixel and document dimension sizes. These larger sizes do matter when it comes to printing, emailing, or posting images on a website. Any version of [...]
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