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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: June 22, 2007
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- CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars
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Average user rating:
3.5 stars
out of 20 reviews
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
High Quality Photo Resizer is a lightweight image editor replete with options. Unfortunately, it also suffers from some snags.
The interface is basic and mostly text based. You start off by loading an image or group of images. It's frustrating that you can't drag-and-drop images or add an entire folder, although you can select multiple images and add them that way. You then choose one of eight output formats, including JPEG and TIF, and set the output size. Users can manually set the height and width or use a preset, but the "preserve aspect ratio" option didn't work for us. That's a pretty major flaw.
The next step offers users a wide range of effects to add. The changes include converting the image to black and white, posterizing, sharpening, adjusting the contrast, adding noise, and more. After you make your edits, you can preview the image. This process was a bit odd, though, with the preview pane taking up the entire screen and only showing one image out of a batch job.
Still, HQPR offers resizing and more in a tiny bundle for free, and you can't argue with that.
Publisher's description
(From Naturpic Software ):High Quality Photo Resizer is an easy-to-use freeware for batch resizing of digital photos. With High Quality Photo Resizer you may make high quality small photos for publication on the internet or to send to friends and family. It supports many input formats: BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, ICB, JPG, JPEG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WBMP, WMF. It supports 8 output formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TGA, WMF, EMF. It also enables you to add up to 37 effects (Sharpen, Mosaic, Tweak RGB, Colorize, Spray, Emboss, Blur, Gray Scale, Negative, Soften, Swirl, Tile, Wind, Contrast, Noise, Anti Alias, Fish Eye, Flip Horizontal, Flip Vertical, High Pass, Neontrace) to your photos.
Version 4 supports 8 output formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TGA, WMF, EMF.
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User reviews of High Quality Photo Resizer 4
- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 20 votes
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Version: High Quality Photo Resizer 4
"Good results but disposable software"
Pros: Good results, pretty fast, nice fun options,
Cons: It can be used only once after installation ... i am using a Windows Vista Home Premium machine ... On starting the software second time it says ... Component 'Xwpdlx20.ocx' or one of its dependecies not correctly registered: a file missing or invalid ... If I re install it , then it works but again for just one time !!
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Version: High Quality Photo Resizer 4
"Good for what it does, but..."
Pros: Works as advertised, handy little tool.
Cons: It's hard to recommend this given the rather unbeatable Irfanview - for 400KB extra, you get a ton more features. Including batch resizing, of course. And with additional plug-ins to boot. HQPR kind of becomes redundant in this way.
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Version: High Quality Photo Resizer 4
"Great for Batch resizing Photos, Creates quality small size for web"
Pros: Quick Downlaod, easy to use - creates quality reaize web jpgs
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Version: High Quality Photo Resizer 4
"Best free resizer I've found yet"
Pros: Easy to use and provides for numerous reductions in size, unlike others.
Cons: Would like option to replace photos with smaller ones rather than to have to do this manually. This is one advantage of Microsofts Resizer powertoy.
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Version: High Quality Photo Resizer 4
Pros: want a screen on the phone it works in 10 seconds
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