Image shrinker

Is there a good program out there for shrinking the file sizes of my digital images for emailing them? Like a drag and drop thing. Doing them one at a time with Paint is a little tedious and long if all I want to do is send the family 10 pics that aren't 1+ MBs each. Thanks!

 

While I don't think it's drag and drop, you could try something like IrfanView (free) and do a batch conversion on a folder of pictures. Maybe change the file format to something a little more portable.

 

I use a program called Qimage, but it's more than a shrinker, and not free, but if you need to do anything in batch with photos, it's great.

Also, if you have WinXP, you can select the files in the folder and use the email option in the left window and windows will prompt you to make them smaller.

 

There's a Windows XP image resize powertoy.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

That's the first thing i thought of when i saw the thread title. It's a very nice tool - unusual for M$.

 

I use Irfanview as well for quick web resizing. And yes, Qimage is rather overkill for that purpose.

 

InfranView is really easy and fast. I use it often.

 

If you are unix/cygwin savvy, there's the cjpeg/djpeg utilities which can do what you want pretty easily and efficiently with the cavaet that they can only scale by powers of 2 (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). But they are based on the most efficient codec you can find...