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Original Resizr Online Image Resizing Tool
resizr.com — This tool lets you resize your JPG, PNG, or GIF files, with output in JPG or PNG. Quality is adjustable (for JPG). It's designed to be extremely easy to use, for people who can't use photoshop. It's got a neat little javascript image scaler, too. Note, a recent digg story showed a bad copy of this.
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- UrbanPug, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6This is not for the normal DIGG audience. This is for your mothers, relatives, girlfriends, etc. who just are never going to use photoshop. So, look at this, and the next time they ask you to resize a photo, just have them go here, so this can do it for them, rather than you having to do it.
- chrisjp88, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Exactly why the other article received negative comments. While it's a very useful tool for the people you say, or those who don't have access to a program on their computer, for the majority of diggers the site is not that useful to them.
- UrbanPug, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yeah, I know, which is why http://www.resizr.com hasnt been submitted to digg. I saw the ripoff story, and decided that I needed to post the original. (well, as much as any of these are original)
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3http://www.myspace.com/resizr
- diggywiggit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Tool is great for quickies but copying flickr's name is lame.
- KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I have Photoshop, but I'm sure as hell not going to start it up every time that I have to do something so simple as resizing an image.
I see this as a damn useful tool, whether you've got a program you can resize or not. - sonicspike, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2@UrbanPug - "This is for your mothers, relatives, girlfriends, etc."
Your comment is rather sexist. - digdug2020, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't think his comment is sexist, it's just probability based, and he also mentioned relatives which is gender neutral. Besides everyone knows real geeks use imagemagick or irfanview to resize things.
- coldshuts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very cool tool and URL, easy to remember. That would be cool if you could add more basic features like rotations and brightness in the future.
And the pug network on myspace is pretty funny :) - x0rtrunks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This one works much better IMO. http://www.imagesquash.com/
- jesse11, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Love this tool, Ajax interface and quick turnaround.
- folletto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried the sample keeping FireBug opened and I've looked at the code: Ajax? Why now any javascript code is Ajax?
That's not Ajax, that's simple plain coold javascript. ;) - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Stop calling everything AJAX, you morons. AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, meaning it has to send information to the server without reloading page information "behind the scenes," if you will. This site does none of that.
http://pxn8.com/ on the other hand, does in fact use AJAX.
- folletto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried the sample keeping FireBug opened and I've looked at the code: Ajax? Why now any javascript code is Ajax?
- YesWoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3That's not easy to use... the interface is designed poorly.
- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1hi I forgt t us th las lette o ever wor
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1actually it's the second letter of every word.
either way that joke was poorly executed, better luck next time.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1actually it's the second letter of every word.
- flippedcracker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this is helpful for when you're not at home on your super-mega-puter and don't have access to pshop or the like.
i personally like http://pxn8.com/ - dognose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I like http://blibs.com/ for image editing. Even converts movies and has some animation effects and drawing tools. Resizing is the easiest, with live resizing.
- toppur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2www.snipshot.com does this and a whole lot of other things...
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2loving that web 2.0 name!
- Volatile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Firstly, it's not loading for me.
Secondly, it's a really simple thing to click on Image - Image Size in Photoshop. : I can see this has a target audience, but unless you're not a pirate, I personally have no need for this.- funka7ron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ignoring the "if you're not a pirate" thing, why in god's name would you open a massive application like Photoshop just to do a simple resize?
- eth0izzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Agreed. Photoshop takes around four seconds to load here. By the time I've opened Firefox, visited the site, uploaded my image I could of done it in Photoshop, and Photoshop is more sexual looking.
- titansix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Um, this is great and all but Snipshot (http://www.snipshot.com) is much better. I use it all the time with Wordpress and find it to be a quick online tool for resizing and outputing in more formats than the above software. Plus, the layout is cleaner. But hey, to each their own.
- mwhoh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is a Microsoft PowerToy to do this. It adds some "resize" options to right-click and can handle multiple images. Handy and quick.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Also, you can create a droplet in Photoshop to handle this en masse. Here is a quick link just to give you the idea.
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=photoshop&seqNum=192&rl=1 - bjammin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I recommend all my n00b friends and family to use the Microsoft Image Resizer Powertoy
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Right click the file in explorer, and choose Resize Images. Much easier than uploading it to some web site! You can even multiple select and do a folder full in seconds.
Please no flames about it being windows only.- bjammin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn it, I gotta type faster!!
- folletto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While the resizing preview is cool and useful, the interface is really bad. A fusion of the clean "resizer" posted some time ago (resizr.lord-lance...) and the preview slider of this one will make this really a good tool.
Not for everyone maybe, but definitely interesting.
Another improvement? After redesigning the interface, package it and make it opensource. :)
You'll be the #1 by then. :)- folletto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, reading above: Snipshots already did this, and REALLY well. :)
*That* should be on the front page of Digg. :P
- folletto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, reading above: Snipshots already did this, and REALLY well. :)
- shooks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone who doesn't read digg comments is missing the most valuable info. Seems like I always find the best info/urls by reading the comments - better stuff than the original story.
pxn8 and snipshot (mentioned above) are both better than resizr. - dillonthomas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I believe Microsoft Paint can resize images and convert file types. :]
- cooleo_no1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Have you seen how badly Paint resizes and converts file types? The image loss when converting from a .bmp to a .jpg is appauling.
Photoshop would probably do it the best (with regards to image quality).
But for a quick and easy job, I find the Microsoft Powertool for windows is best.
- cooleo_no1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Have you seen how badly Paint resizes and converts file types? The image loss when converting from a .bmp to a .jpg is appauling.
- scepticus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Got to love those PHP errors...
- grassrootz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For windows users I always liked the Image Resize powertoy. Its free and even easier just right click on one or several to resize
- auriumsoft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0There is my project too: www.my-i-size.com and it suppports PNG, GIF and JPEG, with Web 2.0 interface. In two languages: Portuguese and English.
- kayakto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i checked all sites mentioned in comments - resizr has really bad unclean interface, but is the fastest - and eeeeee... it does use ajax..
- bearzilla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Another one to try is http://www.webresizer.com. It can resize, rotate, crop.
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