Brennan’s Blog

When I pull images off my camera I have these large files which are just too big to upload to flickr.com. Instead of the 1mb+ sized images I want to knock them down to a size which does not take forever to upload and kill my monthly limit on a free flickr.com account. To do so previously I was doing it manually with Paint.NET. But I wanted to make it easier with a utility which integrates directly into Windows Explorer.

I started work on it Friday and spent about 2 hours on it before it was doing the work I wanted. I added a few additional features over the weekend and now it is ready for the first release. I call this utility SmallSharpTools.ImageResizer and it is completely free. (source too)

To run it, right-click a folder and select "Run Image Resizer" from the menu. The status window will appear and show you the progress as it creates new copies of the original images, just smaller. (The original images are not touched) It will generate images in the default sizes of 300x225 and 160x120 and place the smaller images in folders named according to their size.

The sizes are configurable as well, but I have not created a settings editor for that yet. You can manually change the config file located in the application folder. Just open it up in your favorite text editor.

I have a few ideas for future features. The next feature will be a preference panel to set personalized settings. Then I may have it generate a web page to browse these photos, perhaps with some Web 2.0-like effects. The images and web pages could be uploaded to your website for quick sharing.