

In this article we’ve compiled a list of 10 apps for PC users that enable you to easily change photo size. Making pictures smaller helps us optimize our websites by developing a faster page loading time (which Google loves), it helps us properly adjust pictures for social media requirements or email attachments, as well as save important disk space.īecause it’s an integral part of post-processing, the resize tool is a pretty standard feature when it comes to image editors. When dealing with high-resolution photos, this step is always required for several reasons. It produces great output with minimal effort.Image resizing is an important part of the editing process. In your case, if you have groups of images of different sizes, you would tweak the settings as needed between batches. It saves the settings, so the next batch requires just telling it what images to use. You can use it to create sheets of exact size images that are all the same original size, or to take a folder with images of different sizes, aspect ratios, etc., and produce sheets where that collection is fitted into cells of uniform size. Then identify the files to use, and it will create and save the contact sheet pages (which is what you print). The images would fit exactly, without the need for resizing. You would adjust the borders so the "cells" are exactly 4" x 3". For example, you could create a portrait, letter-size template that would fit two across by three down (six per sheet). So if you have a collection of 4" x 3" images and you want to keep them that size, group them together as a batch and create a contact sheet template containing cells of that size. It uses resampling (if size adjustment is necessary), so the fitted images are high quality. It will fit the largest size of each image that can be contained in the defined template "cell".

If the image is not already the exact size of the cell, it will size the image to fit the template, maintaining the aspect ratio. All images on a contact sheet will be fitted into that same size "cells", which you can make any size you want as long as the matrix will fit on the page. To clarify image size, all of the template "cells" will be a uniform size. I'll explain how Irfanview does contact sheets and how to use it accomplish what you've described.

It will do what you've described in the comments. You can modify the sheet template (page orientation and number of images across and down per page, plus customize other settings if desired, like margins, labeling, etc.). Among the countless things it can do with images is contact sheets (select Create contact sheet from selected filesfrom the file menu). The free image utiltiy Irfanview was my "go-to" program for that when I used Windows.
