Windows Enterprise Desktop » Image Resizer PowerToy adds image resizing to Explorer right-click menu options http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vista-enterprise-desktop Fri, 17 May 2013 15:52:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Image Resizer for Windows Resuscitates Old PowerToy http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vista-enterprise-desktop/image-resizer-for-windows-resuscitates-old-powertoy/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vista-enterprise-desktop/image-resizer-for-windows-resuscitates-old-powertoy/#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:33:51 +0000 Ed Tittel http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vista-enterprise-desktop/?p=1670 If you mess with screen captures and digital images as much as I do, you’re always having to resize images. In particular, I’ve got to do that for my PearsonITCertification.com blog, where the software won’t allow images more than 500 pixels wide to be uploaded. It’s kind of a pain to have to fire off Corel PaintShop Pro or Adobe PhotoShop just to resize an image. That’s why I was glad to see Paul Thurrot’s latest “Windows 7 App Pick” put a new version of this utility, called Image Resizer 3, in the spotlight.

It’s a trivial download (540K for 32-bit, 600K for 64-bit Windows 7 OS), that comes in .msi (Microsoft Installer) format and takes less than one minute to install. After you install the PowerToy, when you right-click any image format, “Resize image” shows up as an option for that file. The following screen shot shows Explorer with an image file selected, and the Resize image window that pops up in response.

 

Image resize

Here’s the Resize Image control window inside the Explorer parent frame

This little PowerToy is now part of my standard Windows desktop configuration. Perhaps it should be part of your standard image, too.

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