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Software Review: FastStone Image Resizer

New job, new life, new adventures. I can now now buy the things that I usually crave for when I was still a student... (of course just few of them...How I wish I could buy them all...). This time, a digital camera. I have a purchased a Sony Cybershot DSC W-320 which have an oozing 14.1 megapixel resolution. Higher resolution, better pictures, and of course huge file sizes. More time to wait to upload your photos on your social media.
Of course if you want to avoid the hassle about the time uploading your photos on the web, you will opt to do these measures:

  • Reduce the pixel size of the camera when taking pictures; or
  • Use Microsoft Picture Manager to reduce the size of your photos.
Isn't it?


We'll I don't prefer both solutions, so I decided to search for a software which could solve my problem, and also the problem of my co-photo enthusiasts, bloggers and social media fanatics.

Let's try this software that I have just recently discovered (although it already exists for more than a year). It's a freeware. Yes! FREEware, meaning it can be freely downloaded over the internet.
Why do I keep on liking this software, let's enumerate:

1. Ease of Use
     The user interface is very easy to understand, no too much advanced features and terms, just purely the things that you need. Just locate the source (original) files, then click add. Change some few settings, browse for the output folder, then convert! that's simply it.


2. Superb File Size Reduction... not on the image quality!!!
     You can adjust the output quality of the pictures you will convert. There's a scale that ranges from 1 to 10 which pertains to the quality of the converted file. Usually, I set the scale to 8.5 (85%). This setting converts the image' file size to roughly 50%. Also, uncheck the "Use JPEG quality from the original file if possible" in order." Having this option disabled has a big factor in the reduction of the file size. For example, the image below (the building) has an original size of 4.15 MB and was reduced to just 1.88MB, reduced to more than 50%.



3. Absolutely no change on the image quality and resolution.
The image below was took using my camera on its maximum resolution, 14 megapixel. Seen on the left side is the raw image taken by the camera (4.15MB), on the right side is the converted picture done with FastStone (1.88MB). Both pictures was screenshot at its original file size of 14 megapixel. The image in the mid-lower portion is the same actual image.
See any difference?

4. Fast Response / Conversion
I'm using a 3GHz Dual Core processor running on Windows 7 with 2GB of RAM. The average conversion of each file is just not more than two seconds... just around 1.20 to 1.80 seconds.


5. It's completely FREE !!!
You can legally download the software here.
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