How many times have you taken pictures of a property you have listed and needed to send them via email to someone? If you have, then you know that all to often your email is returned to you or not sent because the files are too large. Sometimes zipping them is the answer but oftern it is not enough if you have a lot of larger photos to send. Ever wished for an easy way to reduce the size of all of your photos at once?
Well I have a frebie for you called Fotosizer.
This program is easy to use and you don't need a degree in computer science to figure out how to use it.
There are three basic steps to use this program.
1. Find the photos or folder full of photos you want to re-size.
2. Select the resize settings that you want.
3. Start resizing the photos. You can choose which photos to re-size and where to save the re-sized photos.
I recommend putting all the re-sized photos into a folder with the same name as the original images - re-sized That way they are easy to find and send.
Yes, it really is that easy. You can reduce the size of the photos dramatically and make sending them via email a snap. No more messages that the files size is to large. You can shrink the size of JPEG and other supported formats.
You can re-size photos for email, websites, on-line printing services, slide shows (re-size all the photos in the slide show to the same size giving the show a better overall appearance) and photos that are going to be inserted into Word, PowerPoint or other presentation software making the overall document size smaller and easier to manage.
I have used this program often and recommeded it to the agents in my office and my clients. Everyone loves it.
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Caryn - thank you, yet another useful app. I certainly could have used this a few times! Happy New Year! ~Rita
Rita: Wish I had know you were looking for this. Next time shoot me and email and I will try to help!
Happy New Year to your family!
Caryn- For those of us who have windows XP professional you can open your photo folder with Microsoft office picture manager and resize there, then save. You can also do a lot of other editing and you can auto resize for different applications, documents, email, webpages, etc. It is a great free tool too.
Also, now with Google's Picasa 3 upgrades; you can email photos auto resized right from there. Picasa is awesome because it grabs every single image you have stored on your hard drive. I love the absolute ease of their upgrades. They are all Free too.
I also use and love Flickr and Photobucket for sharing photos. These are great if you don't want to store all your images on your hard drive and take up all that space. Plus you get google juice with these free applications.
The only word of caution I would add is that the resizing of the photos changes the resolution. So if you are needing a high resolution for an upload for a brochure or a business card you can not use this way to do it.
To send high resolution photos it is best to use a zip file or to upload the photo to a page on your website and store it there without a direct URL. You do not even have to publish the page. Just send the person there to retrieve it. Or you can use Sendspace.com or Transferbigfiles.com. You just send the link and the person on the other end just clicks on the link and retrieves the file. Katerina
Katerina: Thanks for your comments. You are correct there are lots of ways to compress your photos. Not all of us have Microsoft picture, XP or like or want to use online options. Sometimes you just need a simple, quick and easy way to get the job done. This light and easy to use program offers just that.
I also use Microsoft's Picture Manager...but I'm bookmarking this application. Always nice to know about free stuff.
Caryn, Another goody! Thank you for sharing these awesome tips! I have saved so much time thanks to your tips. It really is a great help!
Happy New Year!
It's a Good Life!
Fran, Ct Broker
Caryn- Happy New Year.....Thank you for sharing this with us...as you said in one of your comments not everyone wants to use online, or has the other programs. That's what's so good about your info, you give us things that we might not know :)
One thing you might like if you dont want to have to resize the photos is just using a photo sharing site like flickr. Then whoever you invite can see them and see them in higher resolution.
Pacita: Thanks for your comment. Microsoft Picture is a gret program and I use it as well at my day job. At home, I use Fotosizer (don't have Picture on my laptop). So, I love them both.
Fran: Thanks! I glad you find them usseful. More to come in 2009!
Kathy: Thanks for your comments, and all of your support on my blog this last year. It's been one full year of blogging about freebies and I am looking forward to another year.
Eau: You are right Flicker is a great site and I love it.
Thanks to everyone who made a comment and I wish you all a Happy New Year and hope to see you next year in the Rain.
Caryn,
Thanks for the tip. I wish I could carry you around in my hip pocket.
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