# Reducing size of photos
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 2, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744 "2008-11-02T18:07:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/1 "2008-11-02T18:07:44Z")
Does anyone know of a program that will reduce the size of photos simultaneously from 1024x768 to 800x600 for emailing a batch of photos?
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### Author:  [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/2 "2008-11-02T18:12:34Z")
[Bimp](http://www.snapfiles.com/get/bimp.gif.html) will perform a number of adjustments, including size change, to whole batches of images.
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### Author:  [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/3 "2008-11-02T18:14:46Z")
I have always wondered the same thing. Thanks **ticker**.
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/4 "2008-11-02T18:57:21Z")
I found xnview is a pretty powerful photo editor and best of all it’s completely free.
I can’t recommend it enough
You can download at
[http://xnview.com](http://xnview.com) or from [download.com](http://download.com)
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### Author:  [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/5 "2008-11-02T19:41:35Z")
I just tried Bimp and it works well for what I want to do. Saves loads of time.😃
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### Author:  [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/6 "2008-11-02T20:01:35Z")
Microsoft has a free tool you can download that works well and is easy to use. It adds a menu item so that when you right-click on any .jpg file you get an option to resize it.
google for “image resizer powertoy”
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/7 "2008-11-02T20:25:13Z")
Irfanview can do a number of things to a batch of photos, resize among them.
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### Author:  [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/8 "2008-11-02T20:47:16Z")
Google’s Picasa (free download) has plenty of batch operations in an almost idiot-proof interface. Resized export is one of them.
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### Author:  [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/9 "2008-11-02T21:02:47Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#):
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> Irfanview can do a number of things to a batch of photos, resize among them.
I also recommend **[Irfanview](http://www.irfanview.com)**. Intall the program and then the plugins and you have a powerful program which is completely free.
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### Author:  [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/10 "2008-11-02T21:22:56Z")
> [@sailor](#):
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> I also recommend **[Irfanview](http://www.irfanview.com)**. Intall the program and then the plugins and you have a powerful program which is completely free.
I have the latest irfanview, but have never seen batch resizing. Perhaps I just need a plugin.
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### Author:  [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/11 "2008-11-03T00:20:58Z")
> [@robcaro](#):
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> I have the latest irfanview, but have never seen batch resizing. Perhaps I just need a plugin.
I believe it is there even without the plugins but I have the plugins so …
Anyway, go under file - batch and then you find resizing, renaming and all sorts of conversions.
The lastest Irfanview can do rotations to any angle which earlier versions could not. It keeps getting better with every new version.
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/12 "2008-11-03T04:02:37Z")
Mihov’s Image Resizer
[http://www.mihov.com/eng/ir.html](http://www.mihov.com/eng/ir.html)
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### Author:  [@Random\_Design](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random_Design)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/13 "2008-11-06T23:07:37Z")
There’s also Fastone photo resizer [FastStone Photo Resizer - Powerful Image Converter/Resizer](http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm)
Also freebies.
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### Author:  [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/14 "2008-11-06T23:48:57Z")
Please remember to keep the original images too. I had a friend who reduced the size of all her photos without keeping the high-res versions. That was painful for me, who hates loss of information 🙂
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### Author:  [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reducing-size-of-photos/470744/15 "2008-11-07T08:51:43Z")
Photoshop, ImageReady, Digital Photo Professional and Capture NX can do what you need. Software that came with your digital camera may have this feature as well.