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Q: Picture resizing software. Can anyone recommend a package?
A: It really does depend what you want to do with your images. A bit more detail would help give you a better answer.
My current preference is for FastStone Image Viewer which has replaced IrfanView as my image tool of choice. They also have a simpler Photo Resizer which may be the right tool for you. Both are free for personal and educational use ($35/$20 respectively for a commercial license).
The free Google Picasa is an excellent image manager that will let you crop, re-size and adjust the image quality with a simple easy to use interface. But it's really intended to be used to manage all of your images.
The Swiss army knife of free image tools is IrfanView - it can handle just about any kind of image and pretty much any manipulation - but it's not always obvious to learn.
If you just want to do a few images then surprisingly Microsoft Word doesn't do a bad job. You can use the crop and resize tools on the image toolbar; compress the images to make the change permanent then save the doc as html to re-extract them.
Going a little more sophisticated Paint.Net is a free fairly full-featured image editor for Windows with the .Net framework. Some features I don't like but I do use it for cropping and re-sizing.
For completeness - the ultimate in free image software is The Gimp which is getting closer to PhotoShop functionality and is almost certainly overkill for your needs.
Going in the other direction, if you need thumbnails then Fookes software Easy Thumbnails is free. (Fookes also have Easy Imager for $35 which I haven't used though Eric's products are usually practical and very good.)
Again for completeness, if you need to process batches of images then ReaConverter Pro is excellent - $40 for the Lite edition, $99 for the Pro version.
I hope this helps.
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