When resizing an image there are various ways to do it, such as through Lanczos filtering or Bicubic interpolation, and they can give you different results (Lanczos filtering apparently yields the best quality, but is slower).

With Light Image Resizer you can just make it resize all images in a folder to a certain size, for example. The ability to mass resize and edit images all at once, instead of manually doing them 1-by-1.In addition, beyond just resizing an image to X and Y pixels or X and Y percent, you also have the option to set the image size by centimeters or inches.īeyond just resizing images, here are the other features for Light Image Resizer that come in useful and aren’t available in Microsoft Paint: Quite handy if you’re resizing an image for a specific device. Here’s what the software looks like when it comes time to editing an image:Ĭlick the dropdown menu on the “Profile” option (at the top) and you’ll get a large range of different sizes you can choose to resize the image to. You can use Light Image Resizer at any time when you right click an image and want to change it.

Run it and there’s a very standard install process: This will download the install file, just under 10MB at the time of writing. Go to the Light Image Resizer website () and click the big green download button: The CEO is listed as Fabrice Meuwissen, who appears to be a photographer as much as a software entrepreneur. CrunchBase also says they have a team of only 1 to 10 people, and by all appearances it does look to be a few-guys-out-of-a-garage type company. The company behind Light Image Resizer is Obviousidea, a small French software company founded in 2011 and with funding of 500,000 Euro’s ( source). You may think these things are trivial to do in Microsoft Paint, but as you’ll see in my walkthrough of the software below, Light Image Resizer’s goal is to make these things significantly easier, significantly quicker and much better, especially if you’re doing it for a lot of images. Light Image Resizer (known previously as VSO Image Resizer) is a tool for resizing, converting and rotating images.

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