photoeditor who make resizing / canvas / scaling easy

Is there any free program around that can easily edit the borders and
canvas of a picture? Somewhere i saw a program who was able to draw a
box over the picture. The data show immediately the proportion. It was
also possible to give a proportion relative (like 4:1)

lennart wrote:
> Is there any free program around that can easily edit the borders and
> canvas of a picture? Somewhere i saw a program who was able to draw a
> box over the picture. The data show immediately the proportion. It was
> also possible to give a proportion relative (like 4:1)

Maybe FrameFun? It can add borders, frames, and shadows based on
absolute values (like 50 pixels) or percentages (add 10%).

It can work on a batch of pictures and you can save your settings.

<http://www.hochstrasser.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Delphi.FrameFun>

One drawback, it saves JPGs at 100% quality setting so the files get
HUGE. I tend to run the output through Irfanview (which can also
change canvas size but only by pixel value) and save with 80% to get
them back down to a reasonable size.

Naaahh ... its not what i'm looking for. I now discovered that
Faststone Image viewer can crop to 4:1 ratio and view also a raster
(ehm cuts a picture in 9 sections by 3 sections horizontal, 3 sections
vertical. I only now the dutch name, Gulden snede, but not the english
term)
Faststone does it good, but not good enough ... i think there's
somewhere a better (sophisticated) tool around to resize, crop and / or
resammple with a nice selecting border.

lennart wrote:
> Naaahh ... its not what i'm looking for. I now discovered that
> Faststone Image viewer can crop to 4:1 ratio and view also a raster
> (ehm cuts a picture in 9 sections by 3 sections horizontal, 3 sections
> vertical. I only now the dutch name, Gulden snede, but not the english
> term)
> Faststone does it good, but not good enough ... i think there's
> somewhere a better (sophisticated) tool around to resize, crop and / or
> resammple with a nice selecting border.

For just cropping... can't beat JpegCrops
<http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/>. It also has Golden Rule
indicators (where it draws the 3x3 box overlay)

Lots of different ratios, easy to use, fast.

What do you mean by resize? Do you want to crop it to 4:1 ratio AND
change it from 1024 pixels wide to 200 pixels wide?

Babya Photo Workshop:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?19000000037114
Babya Photo Center:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000037420
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000038556

I started the search because i wanted to crop & resize pictures for my
website. The ratio of my banner is 4:1, and the source pictures are
6mp-jpgs > Very big. Sometimes i want to crop from edge to edge and for
the best quality i do the job when the pic is still original.

So yes, indeed i want to crop it and then resize it.

Tnx for the advice. But there some things i don't understand about
Babya software
[*] the website isn't clean. I never can find my way on it and several
links aren't working. That's no good advertesing for a program writer.
Would you buy your clothes in a shop where the shopmanager walks in
ugly clothes?
[*] There are several program's with almost the same goal. The author
should focus on one application per section (one photo-editor, one
music app etc), not several choices. Why is there a photo workshop AND
photo center?
[*] the application is slow and not sophisticated

Oh Lord, please don't get into a discussion about Babya-stuff or his
site. Just back away slowly.

As for your original request...

I would suggest you use JpegCrops for the cropping and then run it into
Irfanview for the resizing. Both are fast, easy, and up to date.
Irfanview has custom crop settings, but not the 4:1 that you need.
Otherwise you could just use that one program.

I missed something :-?

Never mind, it wasn't ment as a flame or something like that. Just my
opinion.

lennart wrote:

> The ratio of my banner is 4:1, and the source pictures are 6mp-jpgs
[...]
> So yes, indeed i want to crop it and then resize it.

I've spend some hours and I've come up with a possible solution.

Since I'm the author of JPEGCrops, I've naturally tweaked that program
to do what you want, instead of finding a (possibly better) solution.
This will only make it easy for you, if you have a large number of
images to process, as it takes some time to set up.

If you want to try, do the following:

1) Download and install ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org .
2) Add the ImageMagick install directory to your path.
3) Download and install JPEGCrops 0.7.0b from http://ekot.dk/JPEGCrops/
4) Go to Preferences and turn on Advanced settings in JPEGCrops.
5) Click Add... and specify your aspect. You seem to need the "Fixed
aspect ratio without units"-kind with the values 4 and 1.
6) Enable "After crop" and write something along the lines of
convert %D -geometry 700x400 -quality 75 %D
in the field next to it.
7) Press OK and select your new aspect in the "Default Aspect"-list.
8) Press OK, open an image, select an area and crop it.

The resulting image should have the correct proportions and be at the
correct size. ImageMagick uses Lanczos for resizing, when nothing else
is specified, so the quality should be high.
--
Toke Eskildsen - http://ekot.dk/