Introduction

If you are creating a website, you often need a lot of images made to a certain size or, you might need to create smaller versions of a collection of photos in order to email them or upload them to Flickr without using up all your free space. Photo editing software’s are an option; but they are often too heavy for a beginner and overly complicated for performing the simple task of resizing.

Fookes software has designed an easy program named Easy Thumbnails (now at version3.0), to create thumbnails, and scaled-down/up copies from various file formats. The Easy Thumbnail software is small in size but big on features; the software is just 1MB but can resize images in seconds. The software is a free download and it supports Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista.

The software is embedded with a user friendly graphic interface making it easy for all levels of computing competence. All you need to do is to select the image and configure the setting according to your needs and your image is ready. The Batch converter allows you to convert or resize thousands of images in minutes. The additional feature of Easy Thumbnails is that it supports a wide range of file formats, so you can resize almost any image. Apart from resizing images you can actually add some effects and improve the quality by adjusting the Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness and JPEG quality of the pictures. Easy thumbnail is not just basic resizing utility, it too offer some quality options for professional web developers as well. The software has different algorithms designed to give the best pixel results to images and has an option to rotate images also.

Here’s a small guide on how to use the software.

Files

The program welcomes you with an attractive interface and options in a single window. The complete program is embedded in just four tabs. The File tab gives you the provision to select your image for creating a thumbnail. To make the image search simple, you can select a particular type of file from the Files of type section. Apart from that you can browse to get the image.

Settings

Once the image is selected, the image appears on the screen. Use the Save in option at the bottom of the screen to save your thumbnail in your preferred location. The tool bar at the top of the screen displays the name, format and the pixel size of the image.

After saving the image click on the Settings tab to create your thumbnail. Here you have a handful of options to organize your thumbnail.

Select Max.width and/or Max.height for resizing the picture. Each step represents the pixel units.

If you add a Prefix or Suffix the file names will be different from the original file. This prevents overwriting of the existing files and makes it easier to identify the thumbnails from the originals. I usually use the suffix _tn. An original file name holiday June28_06.jpg would become holiday June28_06_tn.jpg

Note: If you don’t use a Prefix/Suffix and the Save in option is the same as the folder where the originals are located, the originals will be overwritten. So if you want both the originals and the thumbnails, make sure you put the thumbnails in a different location or give them a different name using the Prefix/Suffix option.