The Bottom Line
Easy Thumbnails is a handy free tool to have around for more than just generating thumbnails. It can also enlarge images, adjust color, rename files, and quickly show a folder of images as a Web page.
Pros
- Freeware - no nags, ads, or spyware.
- Many hidden features (read the help file).
- Command line switches; context menu integration.
Cons
- Only saves as JPEG - or PNG when source is PNG.
- No GIF or LZW TIFF support due to patents.
Description
- Create image thumbnails, scale pictures up or down, and process photos individually or in batches.
- Process individual images, groups of images, or whole folders.
- Choose custom width and height. Resize options include best fit, shrink, enlarge or stretch.
- Offers ten resampling algorithms (listed below).
- Triangle, hermite, bell, bspline, lanczos3, mitchell, nearest, linear, fast linear, lossless.
- Rename processed files or append a prefix and/or suffix to the file name.
- Rotate images and adjust JPEG quality, brightness, contrast, sharpness.
- Compare original and output results with a built-in viewer.
- "Copy image tag" command puts the current image's HTML on the clipboard.
- One click to generate a Web page or show all images in your Web browser.
Guide Review - Easy Thumbnails from Fookes Software (Windows)
Easy Thumbnails is not just for generating thumbnails. The more you dig into it, the more surprises you will find--be sure to read the "Useful Tips" section of the help file. You can reduce, enlarge, adjust color and sharpness, rename, and rotate individual images or batches of images. Easy Thumbnails handles EXIF data in JPEG files intelligently, preserving it for images over 300x300 pixels and stripping it out of smaller thumbnails. A number of resampling filters are provided for you to experiment with for the best possible results. The program is simple enough for anyone to use, but power users can operate the program through the use of command line switches. Quite impressive for free software.
