I recently stumbled across this little gem on the web - it may sound a trivial thing, but anyone who needs or wants to batch up a *lot* of images will find this resizer to be very fast to both load thumbs and process the images. I didn't think I needed any more image programs in my arsenal, but this is a keeper ;) "JPEGCrops is a Windows program, created for preparation of a batch of images for printing. It provides lossless cropping with fixed aspects using jpegtran. The program is freeware for private use and is localized to danish, english, finnish, german, polish, portuguese, galician and japanese. Partly localized to czech, dutch, french, hungarian and italian. Note: If you came here looking for Jpegcrop, then you're in the wrong place. " http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/ from the FAQ: http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/faq.html Q: Why can't I just use PhotoShop? You can use .. whatever program you fancy for cropping. If your normal workflow includes sharpening, fiddling with color levels and so on, it will probably be easier to incorporate cropping than switching to JPEGCrops. If you just want to crop a lot of images, JPEGCrops will most probably be a lot faster and easier than the mentioned programs. Q: What does lossless mean? The JPEG format is lossy. That means that information is lost when an image is packed as a JPEG, artefacts are introduced. How much is lost depends on the quality selected. Opening a JPEG, manipulating it and saving it as a JPEG again normally means that the artefacts accumulate. How much depends on the image and the program. JPEGCrops avoids this degradation by using JPEGTran which doesn't repack the JPEGs: It merely throws away some of the data and keeps the rest unchanged. Who are you? I am a computer scientist from DAIMI. I live in Denmark and have a girlfriend, a daughter, a son and a full-time job. Performing a search on Google for my name should give you all the information you never wanted. As far as I know, I'm the only "Toke Eskildsen" in existence
