Resizing Photos For Digital Photo Frame

bod1467

We have a digital photo frame wherein we load photos onto an SD card for viewing. Given the resolution of the photo frame (can't remember but something like 800 x 600) then 3600 x 2400 resolution photos are somewhat overkill - both in SD card space and the fact the frame has to process each photo. As such we need to resize each photo to something more manageable.

So my question is - what do people recommend for doing the resizing? (I would copy the required photos to a temporary folder wherein they could be resized, then copy those to the SD card). I've seen another post referring to PIXResizer - is this a useful utility, or are there better options?

I'm using Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit in case that matters (including the default image viewers, and have MS Office 2007 Enterprise Edition (thus MSO Picture Manager).

TIA for any help.

smileygill

IrfanView will do what you want, in batches if you like. Has some neat tricks, and properly free - not ad-supported or demo. You can resize to a specific size (there are presets or you can set your own) or aspect ratio, or if you pictures vary in proportions you can tell it to make the longest edge or the height of each a particular length. Setting to a given height is very useful if some of your pictures are in upright format. For this, and much more, I can't recommend it too highly.

If you don't like that, there's always Picasa - its resizing options aren't so full-featured but some operations are easier. Xnview has similar tools but I prefer that one for image-sorting. Both are free so if you don't get on with them you can uninstall and move on. All will run fine for you (I have all 3, among others, on the same OS).

HTH.
Gill

bod1467

Thanks for that. I forgot all about IrfanView!

Johnmcl7

I like irfanview but for some reason it doesn't work well with photo frames, when I relied photos through it the files wouldn't load at all on a Samsung frame and they weren't right when on a Sony frame as they had an odd over sharpened look to them. I didn't work out if there was an option that could be set so they worked properly, I was using the default settings with just the resize option.

John

Mikebellows

You could try this software...

http://www.batchimageconverter.com/image-resizer/