My girl just got me a Kodak 8.1 megapixel camera for my bday. I know i am going to have to be resizing these pics for online use and whatnot. What is a good program to use that doesnt make them look ****ty and grainy?
Are you wanting to resize one at a time or multiple pics? I use ThumbHTML to resize a bunch of pics at once. It defaults to 85% quality, which kind of sucks, but it's not too bad at higher quality. Irfanview is also a pretty decent program.
I've tried all kinds of software and I'm still surprised that my hands down favorite is Microsoft Office Picture Manager (came with MS Office 2003).
Picture Manager was about the only softare I found that could reduce my pics by any percentage and still keep the quality perfect. I may use other software to doctor and enhance pics, but Picture Manger is always my "go to" software for reducing pics.
As mentioned above, "do you want to reduce one pic at a time or a whole group?" Picture Manager let's you do one pic or a whole bunch. I've done as many as 300 reductions in one shot and it always works out perfectly. You can choose custom sizes or choose from standard reduction sizes.
Curious what others have had success with though. Lots of stuff out there.
Here you go, its the best I've seen on the net and its what I use. It'll do multiple files, entire folders, rewrite over the existing file or create a new one, you can select the size and quality, and it will also rename the files if you want.