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Image Resizer Overview

Clint Rutkas edited this page Aug 28, 2020 · 6 revisions

Overview

Image Resizer is a windows shell extension for bulk image resizing. After installing PowerToys, right-click on one or more selected image files in File Explorer, and then select Resize pictures from the menu.

Image Resizer Demo

Image Resizer also allows you to resize images by dragging and dropping your selected files with the right mouse button. This allows you to save your resized pictures in another folder.

Image Resizer Drag And Drop Demo

Settings

Image Resizer Settings

Image Resizer allows the user to configure the following settings:

Sizes

The user can add new preset sizes. Each size can be configured as Fill, Fit or Stretch. The dimension to be used for resizing can also be configured as Centimeters, Inches, Percent and Pixels.

Fill vs Fit vs Stretch

  • Fill: Fills the entire specified size with the image. Scales the image proportionally. Crops the image as needed.
  • Fit: Fits the entire image into the specified size. Scales the image proportionally. Does not crop the image.
  • Stretch: Fills the entire specified size with the image. Stretches the image disproportionally as needed. Does not crop the image

ℹ The width and height of the specified size may be swapped to match the orientation (portrait/landscape) of the current image. To always use the width and height as specified, uncheck Ignore the orientation of pictures.

Encoding

The user can change the fallback encoder (the one it uses when it can't save as the original format) and modify PNG, JPEG and TIFF settings.

File

The user can modify the format of the file name of the resized image. They can also choose to retain the original last modified date on the resized image.

Additional features

Auto width/height

You can leave the height or width empty. This will honor the specified dimension and "lock" the other dimension to a value proportional to the original image's aspect ratio.

Flipping

If you specify a negative width and/or height, the image will be flipped horizontally and/or vertically.

Sub-directories

You can specify a directory in the filename format to group resized images into sub-directories. For example, a value of %2\%1 would save the resized image to Small\Sample.jpg