# Need suggestions for thumbnail and photo resizing freeware **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 27, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-thumbnail-and-photo-resizing-freeware/350158 "2006-03-27T21:48:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-thumbnail-and-photo-resizing-freeware/350158/1 "2006-03-27T21:48:21Z")
Can anyone recommend some freeware that can 1) take a group of photos and generate thumbnails and 2) take a group of photo and resize them all simutaneously? Better yet, does anyone know of any programs for making online photo albums? Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-thumbnail-and-photo-resizing-freeware/350158/2 "2006-03-27T21:59:17Z")
> [@nyctea scandiaca](#): > > Can anyone recommend some freeware that can 1) take a group of photos and generate thumbnails and 2) take a group of photo and resize them all simutaneously? > > Better yet, does anyone know of any programs for making online photo albums? > > Thanks!! [Picasa](http://picasa.google.com) will do the first two, and do them pretty well. You can resize photos and export them all in one size, and it has a pretty useful set of basic photo touchup tools as well. I have Coppermine gallery installed as part of my web hosting service, but I haven’t really used it too much, so I will let other people weigh in with their opinions. Anu ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-thumbnail-and-photo-resizing-freeware/350158/3 "2006-03-27T22:02:58Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > [Picasa](http://picasa.google.com) will do the first two, and do them pretty well. You can resize photos and export them all in one size, and it has a pretty useful set of basic photo touchup tools as well. > > I have Coppermine gallery installed as part of my web hosting service, but I haven’t really used it too much, so I will let other people weigh in with their opinions. > > Anu Thanks Dervorin! I though Picasa might do that. I will check it out. Any other suggestions are still welcomed!! ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-thumbnail-and-photo-resizing-freeware/350158/4 "2006-03-27T22:18:57Z")
Microsoft [PowerToys](http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx) has an image resizer and you can rotate them with the Previewer there’s also a slideshow generator, but I haven’t used it. I found a neat free html photo gallery creator, Here’s a [sample.](http://www.geerwerkz.com/Photos/WalterHallSkatePark03182006/) The link at the bottom of the page should take you to where you can get it. all of the above assumes you are using some flavor of windows XP ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-thumbnail-and-photo-resizing-freeware/350158/5 "2006-03-27T22:53:02Z")
I had Picasa on a PC for a while and didn’t care for it. Might just be me. 😉 I do like and use IRFANVIEW which is a free download from here: [http://www.irfanview.com/](http://www.irfanview.com/) It does batch resize and rename tasks. The batch process has many options including changes to contrast, sharpness etc. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-thumbnail-and-photo-resizing-freeware/350158/6 "2006-03-27T23:25:58Z")
I’m with **GaryM** … Irfanview is great. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-thumbnail-and-photo-resizing-freeware/350158/7 "2006-03-27T23:28:33Z")
I’ll also recommend Picasa. I think it absolutely kicks ass and would actually pay money for it. ---
**Author:** ![rkts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@rkts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rkts)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-thumbnail-and-photo-resizing-freeware/350158/8 "2006-03-28T01:58:17Z")
[ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/) provides a command-line interface to a huge variety of image manipulations. Resizing a batch of images is one of the more trivial things you can use it for. For an example, a few months ago I used it in a script that generated images for a slide show by taking each image, rendering text based on the filename (with the help of [Gozer](http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/gozer)), attaching the resulting text centered onto the bottom of the image, resizing the image to a fixed dimension, and putting the result in a separate folder with a single format and a consistent naming scheme. It ran for a couple of minutes and I had a slide show of several hundred images. And even that, I suspect, is a trivial job compared with what ImageMagick can be and is used for.