Photo3x2

Photo3x2 is an application designed a while back with the intent to solve a problem that has existed since digital photos came to be. Meaningly, this app allows you to resize a photo to any size without distorting it.

Right off the bat, Photo3x2 displays a user-friendly interface which makes it all that more accessible and easy to handle.

It’s composed of a single window which is split into two sections. On one side you have all the functions that allow you to crop or resize the photo, and on the other you get a generous preview area where you can see the results, as well as manually position the cropping rectangle.

Photo3x2 provides the most basic of tools for this kind of operation. You are able to flip and rotate the source image, choose between ‘Pan and Scan’ and ‘Boxing’ crop methods, as well as select the appropriate aspect ratio or resolution. Most of the work is done by applying a few clicks here and there.

The above might sound strange but it’s actually true. You won’t have to build a time machine but you do have to change the date on your operating system.

Work on Photo3x2 stopped a few year ago and its developer seems to have left a timestamp which was meant to make the application usable up to a certain date and time. Though we can’t say for sure what the limit is, it seems that April 2010 does the trick.

If you want to use Photo3x2 you need to set the date on your computer to the previously mentioned date.

Drawing a line, adding the pros and subtracting the one big con, it’s safe to say that Photo3x2 isn’t an app you’ll be installing on your PC since you have to go back and forth to change the date every time you want to use it.