Image Resizer

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Thanks for the Power Toys link! Cool stuff ...

~ edd

[RichardM]

Here's another free image resizer tool that specializes in creating thumbnails:
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

Looks fairly useful...will let you specify quality, brightness, contrast,  sharpness, rotation, as well as various filter and size options.

[RichardM]

And for Vista users:

How to resize photos in Vista

There are many applications that you can use to reduce the size of photos you take at high resolution. Another way, that doesn't require you to install third party software, is to use Windows Photo Gallery in Vista. It lets you set the picture size at 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024 or the original size when you click the "Email" button (and it tells you the estimated file size in KB or MB for each resolution). And you don't actually have to send the photo to take advantage of this resizing ability; you can go through the process and then, when the mail message window opens with the resized photo attached, you can just drag it onto the desktop.

[RichardM]

I may or may not have mentioned here before, but another useful free tool is the Batch File Renamer.  Especially useful for creating unique file names for a series of pictures.  That way when you upload them to the BigBendGallery site, you'll have a much lesser chance of overwriting someone else's pics.

[RichardM]

Here's another free image resizer tool that specializes in creating thumbnails:
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

Looks fairly useful...will let you specify quality, brightness, contrast,  sharpness, rotation, as well as various filter and size options.

The latest version (3.0) also lets you add a "Make Thumbnail" menu option to Windows Explorer.  That way you can select one or more files and create thumbnails without having to open the program first, navigate to the appropriate folder, etc.  It uses whatever settings you last used and creates the thumbnail files in the current folder.  This works great as an image resizer where you could set it at a maximum size of 600x600, although you'd need to lower the JPG quality setting to reduce the file size as much as the Windows XP Image Resizer.