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If you're looking for a fast, reliable, and free way to convert many images at once, look no further than FastStone Photo Resizer. The program outputs files in the most popular formats, including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, and BMP. Besides its batch-conversion skills, the application also can rename pictures in bulk. This program lacks any sort of fancy image effects, but you can make basic tweaks, including cropping, rotating, resizing, and adjusting certain aspects of an image's color. You'll even find a tool for stamping shots with a watermark.
This utility demonstrated speedy performance in our tests, and we appreciate that its main window can be gussied up with several skins. And since it doesn't cost a dime, we have no problem recommending FastStone Photo Resizer to anyone who often works with large bundles of image files.
Publisher's Description
From FastStone Soft:
FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter / resizer intended to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported.
What's new in this version: Version 3.1 has added USM (Unsharp Mask) option to Adjustments, improved "Watermark" effect, and other minor improvements and bug fixes.
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All versions:
4.6 starsout of 234 votes
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Current version:
4.6 starsout of 42 votes
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"A Pretty Good Program for Free"
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
Pretty simple to use basic commands.
Allows you to retain original EXIF data.
Allows resized photos to be saved in a different location (doesn't automatically overwrite original photo). This also allows you to discard your original resizing project and start over.
Can batch rename photos.Cons
When choosing to resize photos using the percentage option (e.g., resize to 75% of original size), outcome is not always accurate.
Would prefer to have an option whereby you could choose the final size you want the photo to be (e.g., resize from 4.0 MB to 1.0 MB.Summary
All in all, a decent program for free. I would really like a program that allows me to choose the actual size of my final photo (e.g., make my photo exactly 985 KB).
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"OK, but not worth writing home about"
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
Resizes pictures
Cons
Poor interface. Not the quickest way to resize photos.
Summary
Not a bad product, but I was looking for something that would allow me to convert photo(s) to a given size and format in one step (and I found it, Minh's Free PhotoResizer) and this program is not particularly fast. In fact, this is no quicker to use than Faststone Image Viewer, which can do a whole lot more besides. Personally, I prefer IrfanView, but however I look at it I see no reason to use this particular program.
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"Wonderful application."
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
Simple and intuitive to use. Features are easy to find and it is obvious how to use them. Just select the group or single photograph that you want to rename or resize, or both, and follow prompts.
Cons
No negatives to the product.
Summary
It even is designed to expose to the user functions that the user does not have to search for. (Maybe they didn't know they needed this or that until it appeared to them.) Cannot over emphasize the intuitiveness of all FastStone products. This is clearly the best program to rename and resize photographs regardless of price - in this case price is free.I have been using Image Viewer, Screen Capture, and Image viewer. These products are everything that a non-professional needs to manage family photos, etc.
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"Fast and easy to use"
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
Simple and easy to use.
Cons
Non yet for my needs.
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"Good fully functional software"
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
Batch processing, great options, lots of features
Cons
Takes a little more time than with Minh's Photo Resizer
Summary
Good product for more functionality than just a drag-n-drop item, although there is also drag-n-drop functionality with FastStone.
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"Best photo resizer out there"
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
Easy to use and does a great job both quickly and efficiently.
Cons
Interface feels outdated.
Summary
There is no reason not to have this little jem in your arsenal of tools to use whether for e-mailing pictures to grandma or for web designers or anyone in between.
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"A Great Free Application"
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
Fast, intuitive interface, can save settings, can rename files
Cons
None that I have found.
Summary
I use this to compress photos for sending in email attachments, and to compress/resize photos for various digital photo frames.
For the latter, I can rapidly compress, crop and resize photos to fit the native resolution of the target photo frame, thus optimising the number of photos that will fit without reducing their resolution below that of the frame. The photos typically compress down to between 2% - 5% of their original size (e.g. 5MB down to about 100KB - 250KB), or to put it another way, about 25,000 photos on a 4GB SD card with a 800 x 480 pixel resolution. -
"good piece of software"
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
easy to use with a lot of features. works well without much setting up required. just install and go.
Cons
none that I could find.
Summary
Very nice program for what it does, and it does an awful lot.
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"Am I the only one???"
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
It opens pictures and will crop, rotate etc.
Cons
Images open up with only a black backround. Scrolling the mouse up reveals an awkward row of buttons for editing...minus the minimize/maximize buttons. To leave the window I have to push escape, which at that point the program closes.
Oh no, forget minimizing the window to look at another...that feature that first came out since the very first MS WINDOWS wowed us oh so long ago. So what about viewing 2 images side by side? Forget it, hope you have a good memory.
I was not able to find any settings to fix this, maybe there are somewhere. How is this the top rated image program??Summary
Frusterating
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"What perfect piece of software."
Version: FastStone Photo Resizer 3.1
Pros
It does even more than expected. The watermark feature is great. I can add subtle watermarks with my logo to hundreds of images in seconds. Will save you bandwidth by reducing file size.
Cons
None, thanks.
