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Current recommendations for simple Windows image resizer / editor?
I’m a bit out of the loop on things in Windows. Is there a good affordable windows image editor / resizer that clients can use for simple image resizing, cropping and minor adjustments? I’m thinking of the complexity level you might have on a mobile phone, not the photoshop level.*
Alternatively something usable online that provides a similar capability. Pintura, for example, is a nice one but as far as I can tell designed for embedding in an online product and not really in the price range I was thinking of.
*while we now have automatic resizing, which is great, I’m a little reticent about clients uploading their 8-10MB photos in bulk. Not sure if that ends up hitting server memory limits, or is that no longer a problem. I’d rather start with 2400px or 1800px width and then scale down. Do any of you have recommendations for your starting size for images? Always interesting to hear if my own practices are outdated.
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Re: Current recommendations for simple Windows image resizer / editor?
I’ve found that on all but the highly specced servers, SLIR resizing runs out of memory unless a maximum pixel dimension of 3000px is used (2500px if the image is square-ish). This is big enough to still look reasonable when displayed full-bleed landscape on a 5k monitor.
I don’t know if Textpattern’s SLIR has changed in this regard…
Last edited by giz (2026-04-15 17:12:08)
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Thanks! Useful to know. That suggests I have some leeway but also that using photos straight out of a modern camera or phone is likely on the large side.
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Re: Current recommendations for simple Windows image resizer / editor?
giz wrote #343163:
don’t know if Textpattern’s SLIR has changed in this regard…
No change. It’s basically the same package, just integrated with Txp. So when GD runs out of space, you get no thumb.
On Windows I always use the freeware Irfanview for simple changes. Tonnes of keyboard shortcuts (when you get used to them), it resizes and resamples and all that good stuff, and there are plugins if you need anything a bit more specalist.
The downside is the interface is seriously ugly, so it might not be for everyone.
Side note: although potentially out of scope here, for an online Photoshoppish way of working at a pinch, try Photopea.
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“in Windows” — for a desktop in MS Windows? Steff is right, IrfanView is the best. Nevertheless, RIOT (Radical Image Optimization Tool) is highly recommended as an addition for IrfanView: (File: Open with external edition – Shift+1). And IrfanPaint plug-in for basic edits. For complex bitmap tasks, I prefer light yet high quality Pinta instead of PaintNET or GIMP.
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They’re really good. I use XnConvert a lot for quick / bulk convert jobs that don’t need the flow flexibility of Retrobatch. Reasonably priced, too.
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Thank you, all! I’d seen xnview but not xnconvert. I forgot about irfanView, just wondered if they might be a bit challenging for the average phone user. RIOT I’ve never heard of. Cool name for a program :-) “Wait a mo, I’ll just run riot.”
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