blog: reduce picture size

nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/14Sep08-reduce-picture-size.htm

RickyF · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:32 am Post subject: Always something to learn

Nikos:
I never looked at or used the miniscrap pane in all the years I have used xplorer² Professional. After watching the video I will. Thanks.

Iain · New Member Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 15

Cool post, but uploading to Facebook, Flickr or Smugmug makes even more sense.

nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

it will save you a lot time uploading if you trim the size first! Think uploading 800KB vs uploading 80KB -- if you don't mind the loss in quality that is

FrizzleFry · Gold Member Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 454

Another good tool for resizing pictures is FastStone Photo Resizer - http://www.faststone.org/.

IainB · New Member Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 9

Nice tutorial, thanks, and it showed some really efficient xplorer² usage - I have as a a result, learned how to improve my use of this excellent tool.

admsupport · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:57 am Post subject: Irfran

Hello, I follow the blogs to get more of xplorer2. So I am posting comments here and there.

Irfran is very nice!!! (although I know use ACDsee 2009 to manage my photo collections) and this tutorial is friendly. With the help of a scrap folder to make a selection among several photo folders is a breeze.

Thank you.

jpcoetzee · New Member Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 11

Nice video and I agree with the comment re the mini-scrap.

Microsoft's Image Resizer (creates a context menu entry "Resize Pictures") is also brilliant for this:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx