FREE Easy-to-Use Time Savers That All Realty Agents Should Have (Part 2)
August 10th, 2007 by AnnaBy Bill Koelzer
Microsoft Image Resizer: Ever have recipients (even clients!) of your emailed property photos gripe that your whopper 5, 6, or 7 MB images took too long to download? Or, they said your pics were so big that they were hard to view?
Chances are that you have no idea how to make photos that you take become smaller for printing, sending to clients, friends or relatives, or texting to their cell and smart phones…or, even for conserving space on your computer. Now, though, you will know all this and more.
Enter the Image Resizer. This free software download from Microsoft merges perfectly with Windows XP and lets you copy into a smaller size format any image that you have, into your choice of four sizes.
Small (Fits a 640 x 480 screen)
Medium (Fits a 600 x 800 screen)
Large (Fits a 1024 x 768 screen)
Handheld PC (Fits a 240 x 320 screen)
Your original photo is not altered in any way by the resizing; Image Resizer creates a duplicate file in the same folder as your original and resizes only the duplicate which is automatically labeled with the name you originally gave it, say, “Betty Cheers-2″ plus a text designation of the new size “Betty Cheers-2 (Small)”
Multiple image resizing saves HUGE amounts of time—You can resize all the images in a single folder, or, cherry-pick ones for resizing. What a time saver!.
Operation is ultra-simple: Once Image Resizer is installed, you just right click on the thumbnail of any saved image and you will see the Resize Images option appear in the menu.
There are also some nifty advanced features (click on an “Advanced” button) for the more savvy users. They include:
Custom lets you manually set the size you want for your photos.
Make pictures smaller but not larger constrains resizing to only sizes smaller than the original photo.
Resize the original pictures (don’t create copies) permanently applies resizing to your original photo.
The Image Resizer is one of the new lines of PowerToys for Windows XP from Microsoft. The Resizer program adds its function to the windows explorer context menu and is therefore only one click away.
Bill Koelzer is a Web marketing consultant to Web-proficient agents nationwide. He is co-author, with Barbara Cox, Ph.D., of the Prentice-Hall books, “Internet Marketing in Real Estate” and Internet Marketing. Koelzer is also webmaster of Orange County Real Estate – Search MLS, among the most-awarded known Realtor ® sites. Contact info: www.koelzer.com or e-mail him at Bill@Koelzer.com
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