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« on: January 27, 2016, 04:52:31 am »

Dear Tom,
I use a very, really very simple program that is of the type that I prefer. Very small, it doesn’t need to be installed so it will not affect your pc, it is free and, very important to me, it does just and only what it is request to do. I find really crazy to use enormous programs like Photoshop et similar, that does almost everything, while indeed most users will use almost a small fraction of what it can do. The name of the program is JPG Resizer and while it was at hand a few years ago, it is quite difficult to find it today on the net because the site of the producer seems disappeared. I did some searches and one of the places where I find it is here:
http://jpeg-resizer.software.informer.com/
Be aware that this is one of the sites where you click on a Download button thinking to download something while instead your are downloading something else. So be patient, I did some try and here is how to correctly download it, and only it.
By clicking on that link, you will find the page seen in the first picture below, named step 1.
Once there, be sure to click only on the green “Download” button that I have highlighted in red.
Then you will access the page seen in the picture here below named Step 2.
Wait for the small window on the upper left corner and click on OK pushbutton. In the picture, the text in the small window is in Italian but you should reach the same window in English.
By doing this, you will download the compressed zip version of the program.
Click on it and extract the real program, which has a small icon in the shape of a brushpot with brushes inside it.
By clicking on the program, it will start You will see then why I like this program so much. It is extremely light, and it is very intuitive. You can copy it wherever you want on your pc, having it in many places because as said it doesn’t need to be installed. What is very interesting is that you can resize all the images that you have stored in a folder at once, without the boring task of having to handle each one of them.
A brief how to use instruction.
The program start with the first window, which is 1.Files
From there, you can either press “Add File(s)” and choose the files you want to resize, or press “Add folder” And choose a folder with all the images that you want to resize at once.
Once the images are selected, click on the left side on the second pushbutton, 2.Size
You will see a window where you can select the amount of pixels of the largest size of the final image. If you click on the first round pushbutton, you can tell there that all the images must be 900 pixels wide. Or you can use other options there by clicking on another round pushbutton. Be always sure, in this and the other windows, to check that the correct round pushbutton is selected.
Then click on the third window, 3.Output. This si the more important window.
Here you can, by means of the first round pushbutton, select to save the resized images in a different folder. I always do that, just to be sure to not affect the original pictures. I have created a folder named “Resized images”  and save there  the new images. You should do that just once, the program is storing your choices.
Then there are two round buttons, which let you choose if keeping the original name or generate a new incremental name for the resized images, which are IMG 1, IMG 2, and so on.
Then check the small square box named “Change JPG compression factor” and move the slider under it which gives you a compression factor. You will not be able to tell the program that you want the final image of let say 80 kb, you just tell it how much to compress. It is not a big problem, you will manage it soon. To have an idea, I leave the slider usually at about 24 or 28 per cent and that is fine for almost all the images, In some case, if the image is still too heavy, then I increase the compression factor to let say 36, or 40.
Then press the green button on the left, 4.Resize
That’s it, but there is a very important thing to keep in mind. Every time you press Resize, new files are generated and overwritten on the previous ones. So if you are resizing a new batch of images, remember to move the resized images stored previously in the resized images paste, or they will be overwritten.
Hope this help
Kind regards
Giovanni


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