My wife is always trying to send pictures of the kids in email. The problem is that most of the pictures are 6 megapixels and too large for a simple copy and paste. So I wrote this quick application that will help her quickly put images into emails at the right size. It's called Quick Resize and here's how it works.
You right click on any JPG image and choose "Resize to Clipboard"
The image is then resized to a maximum of 640 x 480 (or 480 X 640 if it's portrait) and placed into the clipboard. You open up a new email message and simply paste the picture in
Now, this is version 1. It only works on JPEGs. Technically it should work on BMP, TIFF, TGA, etc, but I didn't write that into it yet. Also, if you wish to change the maximum sizes, look inside the program folder (should be something like c:\Program Files\Robbjects\Quick Resizer\) and, using any text editor, edit the QuickResize.exe.config file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><configuration>...<setting name="maxHeight" serializeAs="String"> <value>480</value></setting><setting name="maxWidth" serializeAs="String"> <value>640</value></setting> ... </configuration>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><configuration>...<setting name="maxHeight" serializeAs="String"> <value>480</value></setting><setting name="maxWidth" serializeAs="String"> <value>640</value></setting>
...
</configuration>
Hopefully someone else likes this. It's free and even has source code if you're interested. Requirements are Windows XP or greater running .Net Framework 2.0.
Download the installer (x86)
Download the source code
Please let me know if you have any problems with it.
Update - Thanks to Simon the code has been updated to reflect the acutual version shown in the screen shots rather than the version in my head.