Image resolution reduction

[Michael Salem]

What's the best Windows software to enable non-computer-experts to
generate sensibly configured JPEG images from large TIFF originals? Good
automatic choice of parameters is more important than flexibility. No
other functionality required. I will stray a little off-topic by saying
that for my purposes it needn't be strictly freeware if shareware or
paid software is better.

Best wishes,

 

[old jon]

What's the best Windows software to enable non-computer-experts to
generate sensibly configured JPEG images from large TIFF originals? Good
automatic choice of parameters is more important than flexibility. No
other functionality required. I will stray a little off-topic by saying
that for my purposes it needn't be strictly freeware if shareware or
paid software is better.

Best wishes,

Down to standard photograph sizes ?.

 

[Michael Salem]

I asked:

old jon responded:

Down to standard photograph sizes ?

I'd expect the software I'm looking for to offer a choice of options (in
particular, options which can be preconfigured for the user are OK;
maybe they can have different shortcuts for different operations?).

Typically, starting with a TIFF capable of printing a top-quality 8 x 10
inch print (10MB, say), I'd need to go down to an image to display in
part of a web page, an image to project in a presentation, and an image
to print on an A4 page of adequate quality. I'd expect to spend some
time, once and for all, configuring the various required formats.

Best wishes,

 

[Spencer Spindrift]

|I asked:
|
| > > What's the best Windows software to enable non-computer-experts to
| > > generate sensibly configured JPEG images from large TIFF
originals? Good
| > > automatic choice of parameters is more important than flexibility.
No
| > > other functionality required. I will stray a little off-topic by
saying
| > > that for my purposes it needn't be strictly freeware if shareware
or
| > > paid software is better.
|
| old jon responded:
|
| > Down to standard photograph sizes ?
|
| I'd expect the software I'm looking for to offer a choice of options
(in
| particular, options which can be preconfigured for the user are OK;
| maybe they can have different shortcuts for different operations?).
|
| Typically, starting with a TIFF capable of printing a top-quality 8 x
10
| inch print (10MB, say), I'd need to go down to an image to display in
| part of a web page, an image to project in a presentation, and an
image
| to print on an A4 page of adequate quality. I'd expect to spend some
| time, once and for all, configuring the various required formats.

IrfanView?

 

[kcaj]

What's the best Windows software to enable non-computer-experts to
generate sensibly configured JPEG images from large TIFF originals? Good
automatic choice of parameters is more important than flexibility. No
other functionality required. I will stray a little off-topic by saying
that for my purposes it needn't be strictly freeware if shareware or
paid software is better.

Best wishes,

http://www.axiomx.com/picsizer.htm

 

[Morgan Ohlson]

What's the best Windows software to enable non-computer-experts to
generate sensibly configured JPEG images from large TIFF originals? Good
automatic choice of parameters is more important than flexibility. No
other functionality required. I will stray a little off-topic by saying
that for my purposes it needn't be strictly freeware if shareware or
paid software is better.

Best wishes,

You set the size... Irfanview do the rest.


Morgan O.

 

[Michael Salem]

I asked:


Thanks to kcaj, who responded:

http://www.axiomx.com/picsizer.htm

This seems to be exactly what I wanted.

I wanted to avoid powerful graphics programs such as IrfanView, GIMP,
etc., to keep it simple.

Best wishes,

 

[John Corliss]

What's the best Windows software to enable non-computer-experts to
generate sensibly configured JPEG images from large TIFF originals? Good
automatic choice of parameters is more important than flexibility. No
other functionality required. I will stray a little off-topic by saying
that for my purposes it needn't be strictly freeware if shareware or
paid software is better.

Best wishes,

Photofiltre will do this nicely and you get an excellent graphics
program to boot:

http://www.photofiltre.com/

--
Regards from John Corliss
My current killfile: aafuss, Chrissy Cruiser, Slowhand Hussein and others.
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez please.

 

[CoMa]

PIXresizer
http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

PIXresizer is a photo resizing program to easily create web and
e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes.

The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original
images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different
resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize
image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert
between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF),
rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images
in batch mode.

 

[Andrei]

PEERNET File Conversion Center:
http://www.peernet.com/fcc/index.html

Auto-resize, trim, crop, convert to and from JPEG, GIF, PNG, PDF, TIFF,
....

Simple, powerful.

Regards,
Andrei