Online Image Resizing Blog

I’ve just implemented a “new look” for resizr.  It’s been said that the site’s ugly, and I’m trying my best to come up with something that is both functional and elegant.  Also, I’ve just added two new functions — sharpening and sepia tone.  Sepia tone “colors” an image to look “old timey” — some people think it’s cool.  However, the really useful feature is the new image sharpening feature.

I’ve implemented “unsharp masking,” which is a technique by which images are made to appear less blurry.  This is especially useful when shrinking an image, as the shrinking process can cause some blurring.  I’ve put a decent explanation of unsharp masking and how to use the feature in the faq.  Click here to read the faq about unsharp masking.

We’ve added two new features.

1) The ability to create a Black & White version of a picture.

2)  The ability to adjust the brightness of your images.

Happy Resizing!

More people than ever are using Resizr!  Today, we resized our 500,000th image.

500,000 uses in, well, it’s been just about one year now.

Next stop, 1 MILLION!

Today we hit a big milestone!  Resizr has now resized over 250,000 images!

Now, you can send resized pictures to your phone and post resized pictures to MySpace.

I recognized that sometimes, people don’t know how to save files to their computer or want to share an image with someone else, but they don’t know how.  So, I implemented a feature that lets people do both!

Now, after you resize your photos, you can e-mail them to whoever you want to get them.  It’s a fairly straightforward process, only requiring a simple email validation.

Hopefully, this is a help to some people out there!

I’m working on giving people the ability to crop their pictures to particular sizes.  For example, 4×6.  What sizes do you want to crop to?  Of course, I’m going to let you specify the exact size you want, but I’m putting some pre-set options in, too.

Either leave me a comment here, or email me at matt@resizr.com

Thanks!

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Just a little post, in case anybody is interested.  The logo image up at the top of the screen is a digital photo that I took on my honeymoon, in Saint Lucia.  It’s a cropped picture taken of the island from a boat trip that we took while we were there.

It just happened to fit in the bounds of the image I wanted to show, and I thought it looked nice.

St. Luicia is a really nice place to visit!

technorati tags:st+lucia, saint+lucia, picture+saint+lucia, digital+photo+resizing

Maybe someone wants to know?

I’m a former software engineer, and I live in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Fortunately, my home was not damaged by Hurricane Katrina, although I did have to leave my home for several months.  I am recently married, and I have two Pugs.  You can read about my pugs at Urban Pug.

Currently, I’m a first year law student (a 1L).  This means that I am very busy.  I wrote Resizr because someone in the Urban Pug Forums couldn’t resize her image, and software is complicated for non technical people.

With Resizr, I just want to make things easy.  I think I’ve made resizing easy.  I think you guys have spoken, and you want to be able to do batch resizing, and you want to be able to crop images to specific sizes, like 4×6 or 5×7, for printing photos.  I think that’s a really good thing to want to do.  I want to do it, myself.

So, that’s what I’m working on.  In the small amount of free time I have, I’m going to be working on a way that lets you crop your images, specifically to preset aspect ratios.  The hardest part about the whole thing is figuring out how to do it such that it’s still EASY.

Is easy going through a “wizard” where you’re presented with one question at a time? Or, is easy a really simple one screen interface?  Sure, one screen is easy, but if you have enough options, you overload the user with too much information.

We’ll see what pans out.

Keep Resizing,

-Matt

You’ve been giving me feedback about the site, but I want to know what features you want next!  Leave a comment and let me know!