I’ve used Irfanview to resize photos for a number of years now. It can do a few other good things too, and its free for non-commercial use..

Hi Duncan, my W11 allows me to resize photos, I just click on a photo and there are three dots at the top R/H side of the screen.

Clicking on the three dots brings up a drop down menu, with the resize option, and clicking on that brings up the resize pane.

However, I don’t think it is as good as the W10 one though, as I can’t see the option for making web size photos etc.

Regards Nick.

I couldn’t get on with the Photos program in Windows 11 when it supplanted Paint, so I installed Paint legacy from:

Paint legacy download link

This “old” version of the image manipulation software doesn’t have all the fancy twiddly bits of the latest, but just does the simple things that I require.

Note:  This is not a Microsoft site, so the usual precautions apply.  Having said that, I’ve been using it for various applications and have encountered no problems.

John

I’ve never resized photos like this. The programs I have used let you resize in place. Word, Publisher and their non-microsoft equivalents do not require a specific size photo to put them in place at the size required for the available space. Just click on the photo and use the handles that appear at the corners to enlarge or reduce as required. What are you using to produce this newsletter?

Martin C

For heavy duty image processing, ImageMagick does the job.  Point and click is great for tweaking a few images, but if hundreds or tens of thousands are to be processed, then go for a tool that can be scripted.

ImageMagick provides a command line tool called ‘convert’ or ‘magick’ that takes multiple options and can operate on lists of images.  Resize is one of 5 transforms provided, and transform is just one of 40-odd other image operation groups supported.

Rather simple when you know how to resize all the images on a computer and then montage or animate the result.

Need to convert an US Mil Standard CALS file to a TIFF – no problem.

This bad boy is typically behind the scenes on a web-server or photo repository. Key advantages: comprehensive, can be automated, and is made to handle images in bulk; powerful!  Disadvantages: though simple usage is straightforward, users have to learn how to drive and have a good understanding of image processing for advanced work.   Scripting not ideal when a single image has to be tarted up experimentally, because a point and click interface often supports suck it and see better.

Dave