Free, easy to use web tools to crop, change resolution, and reduce the file size of image files.
Here is one tool for Chem web's "image" manager's tool box:
http://www.resizeyourimage.com/
It's a quick image cropper and resolution re-sizer to quickly create 180*180's and 80*80's, both needed for Chemistry web site's "news" items.
Here is another tool for Chem web's "image" manager's tool box:
http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo
I just used it on a largish JPG. The JPG went from 289K to 119K, but kept the same resolution (very large!) and does indeed look the same. Magic!
Tip: Do the "shrinking" at the end to maximize the amount of shrinking possible. That is, do it after all the cropping and dropping of resolution.
Both tools are web-based and free, and they do exactly what is needed- and ever so easily.
Still "to do": Chemistry still has that big job of "image management" and curation which still needs to "sit" somewhere (and it is much larger and broader than the "Chemistry web site", per se). Anyway, whoever will be doing this will have a much easier job now that we've identified these tools.Free, easy to use web tools to crop, change resolution, and reduce the file size of image files.
Resize and Here is one tool for Chem web's "image" manager's tool box:
http://www.resizeyourimage.com/
It's a quick image cropper and resolution re-sizer to quickly create 180*180's and 80*80's, both needed for Chemistry web site's "news" items.
Here is another tool for Chem web's "image" manager's tool box:
http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo
I just used it on a largish JPG. The JPG went from 289K to 119K, but kept the same resolution (very large!) and does indeed look the same. Magic!
Tip: Do the "shrinking" at the end to maximize the amount of shrinking possible. That is, do it after all the cropping and dropping of resolution.
Both tools are web-based and free, and they do exactly what is needed- and ever so easily.
Still "to do": Chemistry still has that big job of "image management" and curation which still needs to "sit" somewhere (and it is much larger and broader than the "Chemistry web site", per se). Anyway, whoever will be doing this will have a much easier job now that we've identified these tools.