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Softpedia Editor's Review for Avatar Sizer
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An application designed to help you resize images to a smaller size
Written by Elena Opris on December 13th, 2011
Avatar Sizer is a small tool designed to help you shrink your images to the size of an avatar, according to the requirements of a specific forum.
The user interface consists on a plain wizard in which you can rescale BMP, ICO, JPG, EMF, WMF and GIF image files.
Once you have added the source file (the "drag and drop" method is not supported), you can set the maximum width and height of the output image (with limits between 1 and 150), adjust a slider bar for the image quality, and save results (as JPEG or GIF).
The program comes with some downsides. For example, once you have added an image to be resized, you cannot view its original size. In case of GIF image files, only the first frame will be used, so the program cannot actually resize an animation.
When you adjust the slider bar of the quality, you should be able to preview the output image, but this didn't work in our case (the image quality didn't change).
However, differences can be clearly seen in two output files, with one being converted at 1% quality, and the other at 100%. These differences can also be seen in their size.
On the other hand, although the program is extremely easy to use, it comes with guidelines every step of the way. It also uses a very low amount of system resources and didn't freeze or crash during our tests.
We would have liked to see this program as portable (since it is such a small and limited application), as well as support for batch rescale and additional input and output image formats. Nevertheless, Avatar Sizer does its job very well.
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Avatar Sizer description
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Here are some key features of "Avatar Sizer":
· Avatar Sizer is extremely simple to use
· Avatar Sizer is designed to resize images not to edit them
· There is no upper limit to the size of image you can turn into an Avatar.
· The Avatar you create can be any size from 1x1 pixels up to a maximum of 150x150 pixels, so it will be suitable for virtually all Forums, IMs, PDAs
· Images smaller than the "Maximum Width and Height" are not resized
· The Aspect Ratio of the image is retained when the image is resized
· Avatar Sizer uses "Smooth Resizing". This makes the Avatar image look very similar to the original, just smaller! Avatar Sizer may even make some Avatars look better than the original image
· The resulting Avatar file can be saved as a JPG or a GIF
· You can resize and save any number of images
Requirements:
· CPU Type and Speed: 266MHz or faster
· Memory: 32MB or larger
· Graphics: 640x480x16bit or better
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