If you've ever needed to resize an image quickly, then you need a tool that makes it as easy and as straight forward as possible.

VSO Image resizer organizes your photos by shrinking their resolution or reducing them on your hard drive. It's a one stop easy to use solution for all those that need to resize, compress, convert, create copies, import or organize photos. The main benefit of this is that the photos take up less storage space and are much easier to e-mail. You can also use them in third party applications much easier too such as design applications and other image editors. In addition, it's a good idea for webmasters to use this because reducing the resolution alone can mean that your webpages load much more quickly. You can change their format and also edit large numbers of image files at once as it supports batch editing. While the program doesn't have a particularly great interface, it is integrated very well into Windows shell so it's easy to access simply by right clicking.

If you're looking for a super quick and easy images resizing solution, then VSO will more than cater for your needs.

Download VSO Image Resizer 2.0.1.3 in Softonic

Background Remover is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Sofware that can work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Ulead PhotoImpact, Macromedia Fireworks etc. The main purpose of the Background Remover is to extract some part of an image i.e. “the object” and remove part that which is unwanted, i.e. “the background”.

It is capable of determining areas of pixels to be modified, areas of pixels to be partly modified and areas of pixels to remain unmodified. The partly modification means the restoration of the non-distinct edges of objects. It is done by reinstating their partly transparent nature and also by subtracting the background color so that only the object color is left in these partly transparent regions. This ensures that the cut-out object will blend or composite correctly with a different background. The cutting objects may be used for collage, scrap-book and greeting card creation.

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Photo Crop Editor is an Interactive Photo Editor software for selecting and removing an object in a picture or photograph from its background.

The user can then compose the result on a different background to create a new scene. Interactive Photo Editor works even if foreground and background colors are similar.

Download iFoxSoft Photo Crop Editor 1.15 in Softonic

Resizing photos for e-mail or uploading to servers is often far more difficult than it should be. High Quality Photo Resizer does the job with minimum fuss with a focus on high quality images. It also allows you to add up to 37 effects (Sharpen, Mosaic, Tweak RGB, Colorize, Spray, Emboss, Blur, Gray Scale, Negative, Soften, Swirl, Tile, Wind, Contrast, Noise, Anti Alias, Fish Eye, Flip Horizontal, Flip Vertical, High Pass, Neontrace, etc.) to your photos.

In the latest version you can now drag-and-drop images or add an entire folder meaning that it effectively supports batch conversion which is great for those with lots of images to deal with. You can scale images wither by simply selecting a certain percentage or pixel reduction or by manually resizing them with your mouse. Note that to install this program on Windows Vista, you need to logon with the "Administrator Account" before you install it. If you log on to the Windows Vista computer with a standard user account, the installation process will fail according to the developers.

Quick, simple and designed specifically for high res images, this is a tool that even photo professionals will appreciate.

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If you want to make a large print of a small photo, what you really need is a good zooming tool to enlarge your image whilst maintaining quality.

PhotoZoom uses its own S-Spline XL developed technology to perform the task. Fitted with simple yet powerful tools in a slightly bloated interface, the application gives you many ways to zoom in and change the size of your image. After you've opened a picture in PhotoZoom, you can rotate, flip and crop it until satisfied with its arrangement.

From the side menu on the left you can easily zoom in and browse onto your image thanks to the navigation box and set the size in different metric settings. However the more interesting features are the resize methods and new sizes. PhotoZoom offers 11 different resize methods including bi-cubic, bilinear and mitchell. You can also adjust image size to specific TV settings like NTSC or Pal, HDV or desktop for your computer. PhotoZoom even includes a very thorough list of print presets such as envelope, sheet or tabloid. These come in very handy if you know exactly what you want to use your image for.

Overall, we were satisfied with the application's performances. One little nag we had with it though was the slightly bloated interface, which you could have been better structured.

Despite the interface, PhotZoom is a good solution to resize any image to a specific format.

Download PhotoZoom Pro 2.3.2 in Softonic

EasyPic is clearly not intended for massive picture resizing, as it works with only one file at a time. However, it's a perfect tool for occasional resizing, like creating an avatar for your IM client or publishing a downsized picture to your blog.

Unlike similar tools, EasyPic doesn't use size presets; it simply enables you to enter the new size values, maintaining aspect ratio automatically. It also allows you to add a watermark to the resized picture, although only in seven different positions with no customizing possibilities.

Once resized, you can save the picture in JPG, BMP or GIF and also save settings for future use, which makes it a bit easier for working with more than one file.

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BD Sizer is a tool that enables you to easily resize your digital pictures, either one by one or in batch mode. You can set a custom maximum file size and choose between three resizing methods: Smart, Lanczos 3 and B-spline.

The program also allows you to add nice frames to the selected photo and add a copyright notice to any place in the image. You have a wide range of configuration options available for both.

BD Sizer keeps EXIF information when resizing photos and also enables you to view and edit XMP data.

Download BD Sizer 2.3.1 in Softonic

Fotosizer is a freeware batch image resizer tool. It resizes your photos in just 3 easy steps - 1. Photo selection, 2. select resize settings, then 3. Start the resize!

Increasingly, sharing photos on the internet is becoming more and more popular. Photos, represented as JPEG files from digital cameras, taken at high resolutions are far too large to send over the Internet, with some photos ending up at 5 mega bytes. Uploading one photo to a photo sharing website is fine, but 10, 20, or even more, this can take forever, especially on a dial-up connection.

With Fotosizer, you can shrink JPEG image files, along with other supported formats, and dramatically reduce internet transfer times, enabling you to quickly and easily prepare your image collections to be published on the web

Download Fotosizer 1.170.269 in Softonic

Picture Resize Genius includes the ability to batch resize pictures, batch resize photos, and perform batch image resize functions for the purpose of email and web sites, or just to save space on your hard drive.

The resizing allows you to force a specified width or height and keep the proportions, or define fixed image dimensions. Besides this, Picture Resize Genius can add a text overlay (watermark), rename file and more. You will be able to process thousands of different files in just a few seconds.

Download Picture Resize Genius 2.7.3 in Softonic

FastStone Photo Resizer is designed to make resizing of large numbers of photos on the move as easy as possible.

If you're a design professional or produce presentations on a regular basis, you'll find this program useful especially if you travel around a lot. You can perform several basic functions in addition to resizing such as rotating, cutting and pasting, colour alterations and of course adjust the brightness and contrast of your images. In addition, once resized, you can add text and watermarks to images although the text styles and formats are limited. Of course, this is nothing special for an image resizer but the big bonus is that it can be run directly from a USB stick in which case it doesn't need installing - perfect if you are in a hurry.

The interface is very easy to use and supports the dragging and dropping of images into the program which speeds up conversions of huge batches significantly compared to browsing to each file. It supports a decent amount of formats including the relatively rare JPEG2000 format which is unusual for any type of imaging utility. The batch renaming and resizing utility also saves you work and time (and the risk of duplicated images) by automatically renumbering adjusted images in sequential order.

This is an excellent portable image resizer and if you're looking for something in this area which is free, fast and simple, you need look no further.

Download FastStone Photo Resizer Portable 2.5 in Softonic

Picture Resizer is an easy-to-use and free tool for batch resizing of JPG pictures and photos. All that you need to do is to drag and drop JPG files or folders with JPG files in them onto the application icon.

The tool will resize JPG images and save them next to the originals. Names of the new pictures will be based on the original names, with a suffix indicating their size. For example, the resized version of MyPhoto.jpg will be called MyPhoto-400.jpg, where the number 400 indicates the size of the picture.

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You have just taken lots of beautiful pictures and you can't wait to share them with your friends but what about that file-size problem you had last time while you were uploading the photos to your favourite online photo service?

Now, we all know about JPEG and that files of this type usually have an acceptable size. However. it’s increasingly common nowadays to be faced with large, highly detailed images which can be difficult to share with friends without resorting to CD-ROMS. Image Compressor reduces the size of JPEG file (which is already a compressed format) by analysing every pixel in the image. With our test the file-size reduction from a standard JPEG was between 20% and 45%. After zooming in on the compressed image, we noticed that the quality was basically identical to its original.

The program also includes other features, like one to retouch photos with some Photoshop-style filters or the one that compares the technical properties of two images. I particularly liked the 3D web photo-album which creates a cool 3D scrolling effect for a selection of images (the rendering is better with no more than about 30 files). It's a shame though that the application doesn't provide an option to share the 3D presentation and if you simply copy and move or send the files, it doesn't work.

Image Compressor is a useful tool to have and it includes some impressive features. Recommended to anyone looking to reduce file-size but not compromise on quality.

Download Image Compressor 6.1.0.2 in Softonic

Flash can be one of the most impressive additions to any website but it can also be one of the most sluggish and bandwidth hogging.

Flash Optimizer is designed to make Flash less bloated and faster to load in your website. It's a simple tool for web designers and Flash developers, allowing you to reduce the size of your SWF files by up to 60-70%. Flash Optimizer does this using a range of algorithms of vectors, shapes, morphing, fonts and other optimizations.

The Flash Optimizer user interface is simple enough for those without Flash programming knowledge to use. When you open Flash Optimizer you're presented with two types of compression configuration - simple and advanced, the latter offering more than 50 separate tweaks and adjustments. The latest version of Flash Optimizer is even simpler to use than before too because you can open multiple tabs according to how many files you want to compress. Flash Optimizer does more than compress graphics and animations though - it also allows you to compress sound which can constitute a large part of any Flash file.

Flash Optimizer is a simple utility that may or may not speed up the time it takes for your Flash animations and graphics to load in your website.

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You know the problem: the new digicam takes great photos, but they are too big to send them via mail. Or your grandma has a new camera, but the last five pictures took you a half hour to download. Tinypic can solve the problem and shrink digital images to 1/20 of the original size without too big quality loss. This means you can send up to 150 images with one mail! The usage is that simple that even your grandma will be pleased. Just drag the pictures on the program - ready.

The pictures will be resized and saved again. You can select different ways to preserve your original pictures: save them to the same folder with extended name, save to a subfolder, override the original files or select any folder as output path.

The result files have a size which is suitable for mailing. TinyPic automatically selects the best compromise between quality and size without asking the user too much questions. The files will be shrinking to 3-10% of the original size without a too big quality loss.

Download TinyPic 3.11 in Softonic

Visualizer Photo Resize is a complete package for digital photographers and webmasters who wants to resize, improve and share photos fast and easy. With Visualizer Photo Resize you can achieve the results you want without any graphic or web experience, all you have to do is select an image folder and enter the resize ratio for your images and click Resize - it's that easy.

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Advanced JPEG Compressor works as dedicated JPEG converter, allowing you to open existing images in many formats (BMP, TIFF, GIF, PNG, ...), and a JPEG optimizer, compressing existing JPG images. The possibility to create, edit and apply named compression profiles considerably helps in processing various types of graphic files. The Batch Processing function makes it easy to process multiple images applying the selected compression profile.

It can acquire pictures from your scanner or digital camera, and save them in the JPG format with the highest quality / file size ratio. You can easily scan, compress and e-mail photos from Advanced JPEG Compressor.

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The task of cropping, editing and optimizing your digital pictures is always tiring, especially when you have dozens of them. Luckily enough there are always programs willing to give you hand, like JPEGCrops.

This easy tool enables you to open a handful of pictures and crop all of them simultaneously. Of course, this doesn't mean that they'll be all cropped the same way: you can configure different cropping areas and other options for each of them separately, and them run the task for all of them.

The program's options include the possibility to choose between many different aspect ratios. Also, don't worry about your original ones: they won't be overwritten, as the program allows you to choose a different target folder and also rename new files automatically.

The only thing we missed was the ability to take a look at cropped images from the program itself. There's no such "preview" option, so you'll have to use your own image viewer.

Download JPEGCrops 0.7.4 Beta in Softonic

WebGraphics Optimizer is the perfect tool for optimizing and compressing images for online and internet use, mainly World Wide Web pages. Most images can be greatly reduced in size, and it’s amazing to see how much you can improve the speed of your Web site and reduce the necessary webspace.

Forget the pain of repeatedly making changes on your graphics, saving them, loading and seeing the results and then undoing until you find the best settings. Now you can instantly see the changes in realtime, with up to 5 variations to compare! Check file sizes without saving your images!

Do you have thousands of images which you think have to be manually compressed? Then WebGraphics Optimizer Professional is the right tool for you. With a few mouse clicks you can compress all of your images. Watch your images shrink down while the batch compression runs.

Download WebGraphics Optimizer Professional 4.2 in Softonic

When you have thousands of photos in your collection, any task that you want to perform on them becomes such a huge amount of work that you never really find the time to do it.

This is when EvJO Photo-Image Resizer comes in handy. With this tool you'll be able to massively resize as many photos as you want at the same time, plus performing other tasks such as renaming them, converting them to another format or removing their EXIF data. Images can be resized according to some default or presets or your own custom size.

The program also enables you to work with single files, in which case it includes some advances options to rotate or flip the image, adjust its color and brightness levels or even add a frame to it. It's a pity these advanced options are not available when working with multiple images.

Resize, rename and convert multiple photos at the same time without all the hassle.

Download EvJO Photo-Image Resizer 1.4 in Softonic

Photo Gadget Pro is a shell extension that adds image editing options to Windows Explorer. It can rotate, resize and rename images, add a caption and/or frame and carry out format conversions. To use the program just select images to work with in Explorer's window, right click the selection and choose an action from the context menu.

When adding a caption you can choose between typing in text or using a graphics file. Framing is simple single or double outline where you set the width and colors. Multiple file rename mask is provided with several options including an automatic counter. If you have that kind of camera Photo Gadget Pro can also rotate images based on EXIF information.

Download Photo Gadget Pro 2.4 in Softonic