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BrianEE93
8th of May 2005 (Sun), 14:54
What program do you think is the most economical for image resizing? I looked at Fred Miranda's site and Resize Pro (http://www.fredmiranda.com/shopping/20DRP) looks very good but seems a little expensive($30) to just resize images. I does do a great job compared to PS Bicubic though.

Brian
iof
8th of May 2005 (Sun), 15:01
Try http://www.irfanview.com/ . It's free.
BrianEE93
8th of May 2005 (Sun), 15:35
Irfanview looks pretty nice. I have a newbie question. I have always just sent my pictures off for processing and been at the mercy of the crop. How do I crop to a size ahead of time? Let's say I want a 11x14 at 300dpi. You can only resize one dimension to exactly the right number of pixels. How do you just crop the picture to 11x14 300dpi? I have PS but have never tried it.

Thanks,

Brian
mkh
9th of May 2005 (Mon), 05:11
Try the FastStone Photo Resizer - it's also free. http://www.faststone.org/

Their Image Viewer is also pretty nice. I use it for quick culling of new images before I use PSE 3 to organize and tag them.
NoLight
9th of May 2005 (Mon), 06:29
If you are running XP. MS made a power toy to resize photos..

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
BrianEE93
9th of May 2005 (Mon), 06:58
Thanks for the suggestions. I do have XP and the Power Toys. I just use that for email since I don't think it is very precise. I think PS with Bicubic Sharper or Smoother is pretty good and then use the crop tool to size to the print dimensions. I just wanted to get some suggestions on the most precise with the least amount of distortion.
MTalley
9th of May 2005 (Mon), 16:30
I ran across a pretty neat program called JPEGCrops (make sure you have the 's' on the end, because there is a competing product called JPEGCrop). It is freeware and allows you to do print size cropping on originals and save the results in a JPEG without recompression. The crop borders have to be on 16 pixel alignments so that it can save the results losslessy.

It's pretty easy to use for one photo or a whole directory of photos. Allows you to manually set the crop windows before finishing all of them up in a batch. Pretty intuitive interface, too.