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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Description
If you have a lot of images to resize for the Web, Digital Photo Resizer is an easy-to-use
tool that can resize many images for you in two easy steps. You just point it at the directory
containing the images and click Resize. The software creates a new directory of
resized images while leaving your originals untouched.
As well as its main resizing functionality, Digital Photo Resizer has other features that
make it even more useful. It can generate thumbnails, Websites, slide shows, and screensavers,
package images into ZIP files, add watermarks, carry out some image enhancement,
and upload images and entire Websites via its own FTP facility. The 2006 version
added support for TIFF files and introduced a “search for file” feature, together with a
properties description and various print options.
Comments
Consistently rated one of the most popular resizing tools on the Internet, Digital Photo
Resizer is just what you need when you have hundreds of images to prepare for a
Website. It has a clean interface that lets you view the images in Explorer mode, plus it
includes an expandable dialog box that lets you specify “resize to” by percentage or pixel
height at a chosen quality level. It is aimed at photo labs, Web designers, and both novice
and professional photographers.
Version: Digital Photo Resizer 2006 (2006/8)
OS: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista
RAM: 128MB (although depends on size and quantity of the images being processed)
Supported file formats: JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and BMP
Price level: Approx. $10
Address: Icegiant Software, 10704 Seven Oaks, Austin, TX 78759, United States
www.icegiant.com
FastStone Capture
Vendor: FastStone Soft
Purpose: Screen-capture utility for taking a whole or partial snapshot of the text/images on your
screen
Description
FastStone Capture lets you capture any of the images, text, browser windows, or scrolling
Web pages that are open on your computer screen. It is much more sophisticated
than the early one-click screen capture programs. This one allows you to capture just
part of the screen image, in a rectangle or freehand, as well the whole screen. It has tools
for resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, and emailing, plus a screen magnifier.