I'm trying to resize an image which is 512x512 to 96x96 and also reducing the colors from LOTS to like 16. Any tips on the best way to do this?

corel paint or photo shawp

http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/45166 IrfanView will do both those things:

Image->Resize to resize the image
Image->Decrease colour depth to reduce colour depth.

It's prolly the only non-open-source software I have on Windows that I use daily; really good general purpose image viewer (and its freeware).

Lightroom

GIMP

another vote for irfanview. i'm an avid photoshop user, but irfanview still kicks arse for simple tasks

imagemagick

everyone else's suggestions are about 10230910391202930x more complicated than mine, except for Thundercracker's.

everyone else's suggestions are about 10230910391202930x more complicated than mine, except for Thundercracker's

ease up there turbo

corel is way simple to do the task, you just have to pay for it

or you could just not bother with the downloads and installers and do it online at sumopaint.com

Paint.exe?

everyone else's suggestions are about 10230910391202930x more complicated than mine, except for Thundercracker's.

Wowza.

Explain how the GIMP is that much more complex.

IrfanView - 2 menu items.

GIMP - 2 menu items.

If we're judging on menu items count I'd say GIMP is equal!?

I tried using GIMP once. Several hours later I had managed to open fiftybijillion windows and was no closer to changing anything on the photo.

Also, I have nothing helpful to contribute to the OP.

yeah Gimp seems to be made by people that have never seen a computer program before.

I tried using GIMP once. Several hours later I had managed to open fiftybijillion windows and was no closer to changing anything on the photo.

Also, I have nothing helpful to contribute to the OP.

Hahah.

The GIMP interface is a massive cluster-f*** of windows, I concur on that point. However, it's DEFINITELY worth learning if the alternative is that you pirate Photos***e or some other app.

If you go the open-source road the GIMP is streets ahead. (And Inkscape for SVG)

This is a pretty sweet tutorial I found, written by probably a top bloke: http://gimp-tutorials.net/A-folded-and-cut-papercraft-or-scrapbook-style-headings

My alternative is either a) don't f*** with photos, or b) use my partners lightroom, or make him do it.

I mostly use the GIMP for doing hilarious stuff with mates' FB pics like so

http://i48.tinypic.com/2ikphs0.jpg

/usr/bin/mogrify -resize 96x96 filename.ext (or even *.ext for batch processing)

mines the easiest

irvanfiew is tops

gimp is awesome but its more fiddly, a much bigger download, a much bigger install process, and it takes ages to start up

/usr/bin/mogrify -resize 96x96 filename.ext (or even *.ext for batch processing)

mines the easiest

yours assumes knowledge of the command line which is often beyond most people :(

yeah, http://imageshack.us/ though
my guess is they just take your file, imagemagick it and spit it back to your browser

excellent service for a handful of images, otherwise you're 10x better off using picasa or something with a half decent upload applet

oops wrong button

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Irfanview is ok.

But there are so many ways of doing this it's not funny. It's like you went out of your way to find a really simple task that google could help you so you could make a stupid post here ? ...

Those who recommend GIMP over Irfanview for this simple resize/depth task are retarded.

Irfanview: 1MB, Instant install. Uber-lightweight, intuitive interface.
GIMP: 23MB, Mid-to-long install and startup. Bloated, mind-f*** of an interface.

It's all about the right tool for the job. Out of the two, it is Irfanview. If you want to do actual pixel/content editing of an image then GIMP would be the right tool. This is seriously a no-brainer.

The GIMP interface is a massive cluster-f*** of windows, I concur on that point. However, it's DEFINITELY worth learning if the alternative is that you pirate Photos***e or some other app.

Who cares? Even Photoshop is overkill for this.

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Oh noes!! 23MB!! That's like a 23 sec download on my average ADSL2+ sync and I only have 1 Terabyte of disk space available.

It's not necessarily about the right tool for the job. Why use a spoon AND a fork when you can just use a spork.

Case dismissed.

Edit: Bloody hell parabol, did you get out of the wrong side of bed this morning? "Who cares"? Maybe hast cares, since he started a thread on it. Chill the f*** out.

Edit edit: Also, Obes is right. If you're switched on enough to recognise different image formats and colour pallettes then teh Googlez is enough for you.

I tried using clone tool in Gimp once and it was the most frustrating thing ever. Changed over to paint.net and it worked first try. If you're gonna copy photoshop at least make it function the same way.

It's not necessarily about the right tool for the job.

Actually it's all about the right tool for the job. Irfanview was designed for tiny jobs like this. Quick to download, quick to install, easy to navigate/figure-out and you're done in no time.

Telling someone to put GIMP on for a once-off/rare job like this is just pure fanboism, nothing else. It's like telling someone to install OpenOffice when all they need is Notepad++ for their requirements.

Bloody hell parabol, did you get out of the wrong side of bed this morning? "Who cares"? Maybe hast cares, since he started a thread on it. Chill the f*** out.

I slept pretty well. Not sure what you're on about? If it's my use of language, then it's just a response to the ridiculous suggestions in the thread (most of it originating from you).

spork might sound good but I want one with a knife blade thing on it too, err... knork? spife? fife? I dunno

Telling someone to put GIMP on for a once-off/rare job

Assumption.

If it's my use of language, then ...

It was the 'who cares' that annoyed me. It's pretty clear to me that anyone posting in this thread, including yourself, cares.

"ridiculous" is a bit much. He wants to do some image manipulation, I suggested a good image manipulator :-/ It has nothing to do with being a GIMP fan-boy, because I'm not. It was an honest suggestion to solving the OP's problem.

When the thread inevitably expanded into a more indepth discussion about image processing I consequently expanded on my general use. (Imagine that! An AGN/QGL thread expanding past the intended OP's discussion point!)

If you care to scan the thread again you'll see my original post was a one-worder. I only came in to expand on a point after trog's comment.

So no need to come in guns ablaze because your knickers are in a knot.

Paint.NET +1

spork might sound good but I want one with a knife blade thing on it too, err... knork? spife? fife? I dunno

they exist! an old mate of mine who only has one arm uses the sharp edged spork... which i call 'the knifey spork'.


ontopic: paintshop pro or any old image manipulation software.

<3 Paint.NET, really liking it for jobs I don't palm of to someone with Photoshop.

Pinky: You've never had a 'discussion' with parabol before I take it?

Pinky: You've never had a 'discussion' with parabol before I take it?

Haha, I said I liked his space photo threads a few times :-/

Maybe he hates me because he has a self-deprecating complex where if someone comments that his work is good he takes offense because he's never happy with it.

:D

One thing I think we can all agree on, is how much more awesome my answer was than any other answer. It included a handy download link of a tiny file, as well as detailed instructions on exactly how to accomplish the OPs request.

Nice work trog!

This was a fun game, someone come up with another simple question we can argue about.

Ether irFanview or Paint.NET for simple stuff like that, that you don't wanna pay for.

Wait! Everyone drop everything! Trog is awesome!

One thing I think we can all agree on, is how much more awesome my answer was than any other answer. It included a handy download link of a tiny file, as well as detailed instructions on exactly how to accomplish the OPs request.

Nice work trog!

This post is almost enough to make me create a web-app with an upload file dialog that spawns a shell to ImageMagick to precisely accomplish the OP's task.

The H1 on the page would be "Resize 512x512 images to 96x96, 16 colour palette format"

Almost

I'm not yet that much of a nut...yet.

So yeah, nice work trog. You win.

Maybe he hates me

Hehe. Nah I don't hate you, just the GIMP interface :)

Actually maybe not just the interface itself, but the developers' arrogant view on how superior their cluster-window-bomb approach is. I used to use GIMP exclusively for years, but nowadays anything else seems easy to use in comparison. So if there's a tool out there that can spare someone having to install/use the GIMP, I'm all for it!

Imagemagick is awesome for batch resizing of many images but for just a single one here & there I'd say it probably is a bit of a prick of a thing to install, set up the scripts, etc when you can just install irfanview and when you're done also use it for browsing and viewing pictures. Or you could try picasa but I'm not sure if it offers any way of reducing colour depth.

Funnily enough I like the separate windows interfacey thing of the GIMP so much I've got photoshop looking like it. I discovered by accident you can drag the history, layers, brushes and all the other little boxes outside the main photoshop window and they can then be placed anywhere on your screen outside of the main window. I find it awesome for keeping them available for quick changes or whatever and not having them cover up part of my image.

Edit edit: Also, Obes is right. If you're switched on enough to recognise different image formats and colour pallettes then teh Googlez is enough for you.

my problem is a little complicated and i thought someone else here might have done something similar. i actually have a palette of around 10 custom colors or so and the massive decrease in both size and depth gives me big issues in gimp. i think i need a program that does the resizing and color decrease in a single step. i don't think imagemagick can even handle custom palettes correctly so i can't use that :( i think i've found an opensource program that does it but the color matching doesn't seem to be correct (for my eyes :). it has an RGB matcher and some other matcher and the RGB matcher gets pretty close so i think i'll fiddle it a little. i think the problem is kind of similar to JPEG compression but much simpler because the palette+tile size is fixed.

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