Before you send photos via email or share on social media, it is wise to reduce them

Before you send photos via email or share on social media, it is wise to reduce them. Involves a lot of images you use one program that shrinks with a single click of the whole collection in the same way, preferably without loss of quality.

Step 1: Installation
Romeo PhotoResizer is a free program. To install the program, you need a PC for certain Microsoft software feature, namely the .NET Framework. This system component allows different programming languages to communicate with each other. The installer Romeo PhotoResizer observes itself as this component is not on your PC, and in that case even abort the installation process. Get the .NET Framework here and continue the installation.

PhotoResizer is a typical batch program. Batch means that the program performs the same task on a lot of files. You decide at once for a whole series of institutions photos and the program will apply these operations to all selected photos. A batch can not only save a lot of tedious work, you know at once scaled sure that all files have the same dimensions. When your 101 photos must reduce manually, do quickly indeed an error in the settings.

Romeo PhotoResizer reduces the 41 photos in five seconds and reduces the capacity of 183 MB to 20.3 MB folder.
Step 2: Add photos
The program works very simply. We take you through the different settings, so you can reduce at once all your photos in the way desired by you.

Drag the images you want to reduce in the tool window. The program can handle different file formats: jpg, png, tiff or bmp. You can also drop files of different formats in the same work window. Each file will appear in a list of thumbnail images, file name, file format, size, resolution, creation date, name of the program that you edited the pictures and location. Have you been a little too zealous, you can uncheck this box for the pictures may be still not scaled. At the top left there is a button in the shape of a curved arrow, which is the button Reset , to the empty list.

You can always uncheck pictures that should not reduce the program.
Step 3: Dimensions
Do you have the final frame, you give up on screen how you want to scale the pictures. Make at least the option Keep Aspect Ratio is checked. This allows the each image will retain its original aspect ratio. You go for the institution Relative then all images will be larger or smaller according to the entered percentage. The option Absolute you can enter a value for longest side, short side, width or height of the pictures. The column New Dimensions look at every picture the new dimensions. In options, the setting provides AutoRotation that the pictures are all upright with the right side.

Specify the desired dimension on the basis of the longer side, the shorter side, the width or the height.
Step 4: Metadata and color profiles
Click on the button with three lines right to access the output settings. Depending on the format of the added images can be still some fine-tuning. Often these JPG files. Here you can indicate for example that you immediately want to delete the profiles and metadata and EXIF ​​data during processing. In the setting of the camera, after all, is the option to embed the color profile of the photos in the file.

Did you see the photos in a program like Photoshop edited, the program adds also to the color profile of the display to the file. Color management control system of the PC then know how colors are for the lens or on the screen looked. In addition, there are the metadata. Which reveal the type of camera, the focal length, exposure settings and sometimes is also information on the author and the geo-location where the picture was taken. Want your photos on the web publishing without you reveal this information, please uncheck the options Remove Meta Data and Remove Color Profile to.

Photos you publish on the web, you can strip metadata and color profiles.
extra profit
Photo files are smaller when you strip color profiles and metadata. Our original photo from 4.77 megabyte was only 95 kilobytes when we reduced it to 1000 by 699 pixels with a compression of 50% and maintaining metadata and color profiles. If we remove the metadata and color profiles, we end up with a file of only 52 kilobytes. We book this in this case almost 50% space savings. If the output files are larger or the compression is higher than 50%, then the percentage gain in space will by this procedure are smaller.

Step 5: progressive / interlaced
The speed of a website is an important success factor. This is why we want the pictures to show web visitors get as much weight loss. There are also tricks to ensure that the visitor gets the feeling that loads a picture. You can for instance cause the visitor to get an impression of the image before the image is fully displayed. If you choose the progressive or interlaced technique, the image will immediately take its full place, and then the sharp images to load in a line pattern. When the Image options that why you will find the option Progressive / Interlaced . This option is disabled by default. If you use progressive or interlaced jpg's file will load faster, but the file size be increased because the program allows multiple low-resolution versions of the image file.

Step 6: No file conversion
For example if you shrink a tiff file with this tool, the result remains a tiff file. You can not change the file format pictures with PhotoResizer. That is unfortunate, because by converting a tiff file into another format, you could reduce its size. A picture in the TIFF format of 2272 pixels by 1704 pixels with a file size of 11.1 MB. The same image in JPG format with medium compression (grade 30) has a file size of only 263 KB. In jpg files, there is a case of compression. So it may be worthwhile to convert your tiff files first in another program to jpg. By default this program, to the extent possible, make a so-called lossless optimization based on the Vorulent Antelope Engine. Leave this option turned on, as this will only encourage quality.

certainly turn on the option Lossless Optimize.
AVG profit
After each job appears at the top of the AVG value in a certain percentage. Nowhere is indicated in the program or on the website which means AVG. A help function you should not count, which is not there. A simple math tells us that this rate corresponds to the average file size of the output relative to the input. AVG 12.95% means that the output comes out average at 12.95% of the original file size.

Step 7: Compression
Romeo PhotoResizer you in jpg's change the compression with a slider. The higher the quality, the greater will be the files. So you could be tempted to put the slider all the way to the left, at the lowest possible quality. Do not just this, because this is your picture is not good. Compression always causes noise. A value of 80 or 100, there is almost no loss of quality for photos. Would you do it all right, then test you with some pictures how far you can go with compression while providing no visible quality loss.

From left to right the same image with different compression values: 0, 20, 40 and 60.
Step 8: File Options
In File Options can function Overwrite existing files tick. This makes the program will replace the original files with the scaled files. If you do this, you have to be very sure of yourself, that way there is no way back. We recommend the check does not turn on, and in the Save to box, then select a folder in which enters the new optimized pictures. Would you not have a location here, the program to each contract itself will place a folder on the desktop with the names PhotoResizer (1) PhotoResizer (2) and so on.

Step 9: New names
If you wish, you can automatically scaled files of new names with the option Auto Rename . The possibilities are limited. You can name the files with a number or creation date. Moreover, it is possible to adjust the original name with a prefix ( Prefix ) or a suffix ( Suffix ). That way you ensure that the smaller version of the photo Lisabon001.jpg example smallLisabon001.jpg or Lisabon001small.jpg hot.

All resized images now get the suffix 'small'.
Step 10: Checking
Do you want just see what photos are changed, and how big they are, you can click in the list on the thumbnail. The viewer Romeo PhotoResizer opens. You can make this window semi-transparent so you can see any underlying files and folders. Use the arrows top left, you can browse through the selection of photos. Click the cross top left to return to the list view.

The viewer can browse through the selected photos.
Step 11: Action
When you click the button with the play-pointer, called Start Resize if you get away with your mouse lingers over, Romeo PotoResizer springs into action. The program works on all the pictures from top to bottom and displays the file size of the new, scaled images. It is striking how fast all this goes. Has completed the command, will appear in the list in each selected image the status Done . You read the dimensions of the scaled image. In the column , Delta State profits in kilobytes.

You see immediately how much profit you've made a photo.
Step 12: Enlarge
In most cases, you use this program to reduce image files, but it is also possible to increase picture files. Of course you can not just blow up a puny webplaatje to a large photo on A4. Then the result will contain far too many faults and inaccuracies. A good photo can usually stretch to a usable image that you can print in large format. We take the acid test and choose the setting Relative 200% , which we therefore double the resolution of a series of images. This results in less sharp, but still quite acceptable.

The picture we have made twice as large with this tool, it is still fine quality.
110% trick
There is an old Indian trick to enlarge pictures with less quality loss. When you file several times consecutively allows to increase by 10%, you'll end up at a big picture of decent quality. Use the setting Relative 110%. Then open the result, and use the same setting again. Repeat this until you get to the desired size.