Thursday, September 27, 2012

Software to Resize Pictures



Often we want to resize pictures for various purposes. Sometimes it may be for sending the picture as email and sometimes it may for setting the picture as desktop background. Now there are many software, both free and paid, available in the market.

Resizing a picture has many advantages. The main advantage is that it reduces the size of the picture. Size reduction helps keep the picture in a disc or pen drive. It is advisable when you have a lot of pictures to keep in a disk or CD. If you want a part of the picture, then you can crop the image with the help of software. It also reduces the size of the picture.

Now, let us find out how we can do it. “MS Paint” is good software to do it. It is very simple to use and user friendly too. “Picasa” is another software which has crop photo function. It gives the user to crop the picture according to his requirement.   

Picasa’s crop function
























FastStone Photo Resizer is good software for image resizing. It gives various options like picture size reduction in pixel and percentage. 

FastStone Photo Resizer