I’ve seen several questions about images and how to convert/manipulate them.
Dust Mote ask:
I would suggest a GREAT! freeware program named IrfanView
This program is for Microsoft Windows but is available in many different languages, the main default languages are Dutch and English. This program views everything. About any image format you can think of. Lemme see if I can copy/paste it here:
AIF¹, ANI, AU¹, AVI, BMP, CAM, CLP, CPT, CUR, DAT¹, DCM/ACR, DCX, DIB, DJVU, EMF, EPS, FLI/FLC², FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, ICL, ICO, IFF/LBM, IMG, JP2, JPG/JPEG, KDC, LDF, LWF, Mac PICT², MED, MID, MOV¹², MP3, MPG/MPEG¹, NLM/NOL/NGG/NSL/OTB/GSM, PBM, PCX, PGM, PhotoCD, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, QTIF², RAS/SUN, RealAudio, RLE, RMI, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF, SND¹, TGA, TIFF/TIF, WAV, WBMP, WMF, XBM, XPM
Yup, there ya go. It does it all, even Audio CDs, MP3’s, and SHOCKWAVE files, but it is primarily an image viewing program. This is not an Image Creating program, but you can scan images and manipulate them in many ways.
To answer Dust Mote: This program allows you to resize any of the supported images. It easily allows you to “shrink” images into 64X64 pixels sutible for avatars.
blah, blah, I sound like a commercial. But act now why it is FREE FREE FREE!! It is truely free without “Ads” or other crappy software that gets attatched to other products that are supposly “free.”
I should mention that inorder for MP3 or PhotoCDs to be viewed you have to download and install separate “plug-ins” that are not installed with a “default installation.” They are easily found on the same website with the instructions to download.
Oh yea, another thing I like about it is it’s “screen capture” abilities. You can easily “Print Screen” and paste it into IrfanView with <Ctrl + V> then save it as a JPEG. I like compressing my Images with Irfanview, it gives you much control on how and “how much” your images are compressed.
Get it NOW! It’s way worth it. Heck IT’s FREE. https://www.irfanview.com
Austria - irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/
Luxembourg - irfanview.com/
USA - ryansimmons.com/users/irfanview/
[size=67]Did I mention it’s free.[/size]