Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Picture Processing

Customizing your photos can be a fun activity but just as well, it is sometimes necessary in order to make pictures fit in an online album or suitable for emailing. If you need to reduce the size on disk for an image, you can shrink or compress it, but at least for the second option, there will be a certain loss in quality. Modifying the dimensions does not automatically imply that because you can simply adjust the width and height, keep the proportions and the overall look just as good as the original.

There are many free applications that can do both tasks, even simultaneously, to help you obtain the desired output that meets the requirements you impose. In conclusion, you can download software for picture processing but you need to take into consideration several aspects that include: batch processing capabilities, speed and system resource usage. Since most modern software can work with entire folders at once, the focus is on finding a tool that puts little stress on your computer while working.

When I am speaking about a freeware utility, I am interested in an application that will ease picture management tasks like changing image dimensions and aspect, as well as re-compressing or turning them to grayscale. A supplementary feature is that of adding watermarks to the photos processed. The interface should enable to access all the commands with minimal effort.

Since I am looking for an application for which I don't have to spend lot of time in exploring elaborate settings and configurations, you are free to recommend any solution that will fit in the best way my requests.

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