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Meebers
Trying to load up a digital picture frame with same size photos. Anybody
recommend a good utility to re-size photos (mostly jpeg) ?
recommend a good utility to re-size photos (mostly jpeg) ?
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Shenan Stanley
Meebers said:Trying to load up a digital picture frame with same size photos.
Anybody recommend a good utility to re-size photos (mostly jpeg) ?
I personally use Picasa to organize/do other things to my photos - but...
In your case - something just to resize is simple:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a
right-click.
M
Meebers
Tx...will give it a try...
Shenan Stanley said:I personally use Picasa to organize/do other things to my photos - but...
In your case - something just to resize is simple:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a
right-click.
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philo
Meebers said:Tx...will give it a try...
NOTE: When performing editing on jpg's...since they are a compressed
format...
you can loose quality...
so if you reduce the size of the jpg...to upload...be sure to keep an
original in a non-resized form.
To be safe, you should burn all your originals to CD
M
Meebers
After I downloaded the Imageresizer.exe, I was pleased to find out that it
does make a copy. I used a copy to experiment with in case it replaced the
original. Selecting multiple files and changing them to one size is exactly
what I wanted. Currently 1024x768 looks great in the digital frame.
does make a copy. I used a copy to experiment with in case it replaced the
original. Selecting multiple files and changing them to one size is exactly
what I wanted. Currently 1024x768 looks great in the digital frame.
S
Shenan Stanley
Meebers said:Trying to load up a digital picture frame with same size photos.
Anybody recommend a good utility to re-size photos (mostly
jpeg) ?
Shenan said:I personally use Picasa to organize/do other things to my photos
- but...
In your case - something just to resize is simple:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with
a right-click.
Meebers wrote
Tx...will give it a try...
NOTE: When performing editing on jpg's...since they are a
compressed format...
you can loose quality...
so if you reduce the size of the jpg...to upload...be sure to keep
an original in a non-resized form.
To be safe, you should burn all your originals to CD
After I downloaded the Imageresizer.exe, I was pleased to find out
that it does make a copy. I used a copy to experiment with in case
it replaced the original. Selecting multiple files and changing
them to one size is exactly what I wanted. Currently 1024x768
looks great in the digital frame.
Glad it does what you needed! Enjoy and thanks for posting back with your
results!
P
philo
Shenan Stanley said:Meebers wrote
Glad it does what you needed! Enjoy and thanks for posting back with your
results!
Must be a good application if it automatically makes a copy!
I've seen "supposed" professionals destroy some jpg's by editing them
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NoConsequence
Why ask here? What graphic editing program you use is your personalTrying to load up a digital picture frame with same size photos. Anybody
recommend a good utility to re-size photos (mostly jpeg) ?
preference and has nothing to do with the XP OS.
Ask elsewhere.
J
JohnF
Irfanview is another free program with the needed capability. Although a bit
tedious, Irfanview also allows one to modify the slide order. Windows XP can
then be used to do a batch rename of the JPG files in the new slide
sequence.
I have found PowerPoint's Photo Album tool to be the best for assembling
images into a presentation, modifying the order, and saving to JPG with a
uniform apsect ratio and file size (960x720, just slightly larger than the
800x600 size suggested for 8' and 10" digital photo frames.
Be sure your title slide has color in it. Otherwise, PowerPoint will create
an 8-bit B&W slide rather than a 24-bit color slide. Not a problem for Kodak
and a few other digital photo frames, but many models will not display any
JPG file that isn't full color.
I have also used the Photo Album tool in OpenOffice.org Impress.
Unfortunately, Impress will not save to JPG. It will save to PDF, and there
are converters which then go from PDF to JPG.
Some detail:
It's fairly easy to batch-rename a group of files already in the desired
sequence. Windows XP has such capability:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/renamephotos.mspxThe challenge is to set up a sequence which might not be the one in whichthe camera named the original files.PowerPoint has a slide-sort tool, plus the ability to save a presentation asa numbered set of JPEG files. PowerPoint costs, but it's widely used.Irfanview has a similar, but limited capability. It will do the job, butwithout the visual select-drag-insert capability of PowerPoint. Irfanviewmight work when there are only a few slides total (perhaps fewer than 20).Irfanview is free.OpenOffice.org Impress has the desired sorting tool, comparable toPowerPoint. I suspect there's an free Open Source tool which will convertthe Impress presentation to a set of numbered JPEG files, but I haven'tfound it. OpenOffice.org is free (and very good).I'm looking into this with the plan to use digital photo frames as displaytools. Many digital photo frames have built-in audio, so putting an mp3 fileon the memory card produces a nice bonus to the slide show.The numbered set of JPEG files will also work quite well on a CD/DVD in aDVD player.
tedious, Irfanview also allows one to modify the slide order. Windows XP can
then be used to do a batch rename of the JPG files in the new slide
sequence.
I have found PowerPoint's Photo Album tool to be the best for assembling
images into a presentation, modifying the order, and saving to JPG with a
uniform apsect ratio and file size (960x720, just slightly larger than the
800x600 size suggested for 8' and 10" digital photo frames.
Be sure your title slide has color in it. Otherwise, PowerPoint will create
an 8-bit B&W slide rather than a 24-bit color slide. Not a problem for Kodak
and a few other digital photo frames, but many models will not display any
JPG file that isn't full color.
I have also used the Photo Album tool in OpenOffice.org Impress.
Unfortunately, Impress will not save to JPG. It will save to PDF, and there
are converters which then go from PDF to JPG.
Some detail:
It's fairly easy to batch-rename a group of files already in the desired
sequence. Windows XP has such capability:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/renamephotos.mspxThe challenge is to set up a sequence which might not be the one in whichthe camera named the original files.PowerPoint has a slide-sort tool, plus the ability to save a presentation asa numbered set of JPEG files. PowerPoint costs, but it's widely used.Irfanview has a similar, but limited capability. It will do the job, butwithout the visual select-drag-insert capability of PowerPoint. Irfanviewmight work when there are only a few slides total (perhaps fewer than 20).Irfanview is free.OpenOffice.org Impress has the desired sorting tool, comparable toPowerPoint. I suspect there's an free Open Source tool which will convertthe Impress presentation to a set of numbered JPEG files, but I haven'tfound it. OpenOffice.org is free (and very good).I'm looking into this with the plan to use digital photo frames as displaytools. Many digital photo frames have built-in audio, so putting an mp3 fileon the memory card produces a nice bonus to the slide show.The numbered set of JPEG files will also work quite well on a CD/DVD in aDVD player.
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