Three tools to resize images online

Here's a trio of online image resize apps for you. I happened to be away from a machine that would resize an image for me (go figure), and didn't have any portable apps on my USB drive available. So when you're in that situation, try one of these handy web services.

Online Image Resize takes your GIF's or JPEG's, uploads them, and sets them to the width you like. There's a 1.2 MB limit for each image. In addition to a custom width (no way to set length), the tool also resizes and cuts images in one of several preset formats. A 50/50 split, for instance. This is handy if you've got nothing but a text editor handy, and you want to slice an image in two for placement in a table.

Resize2Mail also does GIF's and JPEG's, with a set of choices for resizing. These are all standardized sizes, like you'd find on the web (like 360x480) or for printing. There's also the ability to scale (again, preset limits of 75%, 50%, or 25% smaller), and rotate/flip. You can also type in your own values for height/width, which means you can stretch the image (although you can constrain it by not typing the other value). Additionally, you can now crop your image.

Net Imaging is a a Java applet with a little more features than the other two. Besides the resize, rotate, and crop features, there are image correction tools— brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue. And while the applet can handle JPEG natively, uploading your pic to the server will make it convert TIFF, PNG, PSD, GIF, PCX, and PICT files to JPEG. At least, it'll try. What, no BMP? That sure would make Paint useful...


 

Tags: freeware