Resize Images Sans Software

You probably won't believe this, but part of my job is not only to write these witty blog posts, but I also have to find an image to go along with each one. And that image can be no more than 375 pixels along its widest/tallest dimension.

That means I spend a lot of time in my image editing program resizing pictures of laptops down to the magic 375 pixels wide.

Oddly enough, most of what I ever do in image editing programs is resize images to make them smaller, followed distantly by removing red eye from pictures of my kids.

And so I was intrigued to find this little online site that lets you resize images without using any application at all. RESIZR couldn't be simpler: Just click over to the website. Upload the image you want to resize from your PC using the browse button, then click "upload image" to take you to a dead-simple resizing system. Just drag the slider up and down to adjust the image size, and select the format you'd like to save the image as. Click the resize button and your image is ready to re-download.

My only complaints are that all the up-and-downloading takes too much time. Oddly enough I'd like to have a non web-based version of RESIZR that I could use in Windows: Right-click an image, say, and instantly resize it to a predefinied width... say, 375 pixels. I would also love to see RESIZR support GIF in addition to JPEG and PNG formats.

But for a free tool, who's complaining? When I'm blogging from a foreign computer without decent image editing software, I can totally see myself using RESIZR for reasonably quick and very easy way to get pix rightsized. Give it a whirl!