JPEG Resampler Portable

The bigger the resolution of a picture, the more disk space it tends to take up, and since the activity of capturing moments is pretty common, disk space quickly becomes an issue. However, you might not need all that quality, or want to enhance it. This can easily be done with the help of applications like JPEG Resampler Portable.

As the name suggests, this is the edition of JPEG Resampler that doesn’t take you through the effort of pressing a few next button to install it, which means it can be carried around on a USB flash drive. Registries are not a dependency, thus the health status of the computer you use it on remains intact.

The application can feel a little overwhelming at first, because of the compact window and abundance of options found inside. However, the general structure is pretty neat, and you quickly get the hang of things. The first step is to load pictures, and this can be done by importing files from multiple locations, or picking an entire folder.

You can press start to initiate the operation, but you miss out on a lot of options. First of all, output format can be same as original or BMP, JPG, PNG, MNG, JNG, GIF, DDS, TGA, PGM, PPM, PAM, PFM, JP2, TIF, PSD, and XPM. Apart from format, there’s a drop-down menu for selecting resampling type, with options for resolution, size, format, and many more.

It’s the other set of tools that take configuration time. Found in simple drop-down menus, or accompanied by value fields, these can be set to apply various effect filters like blur or negative, formatting color to greater or lesser bit type, and rotating according to metadata. You can also tweak quality by setting level, compression level, and whether to apply PNG prefilter.

In case you want to process a lot of files, there’s the possibility to pick number of threads to use. Moreover, the application can automatically sort them in the output directory, and rename so they don’t create any conflicts. It usually takes a little while to finish the process, but this depends on depth of configurations, and number of files.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that JPEG Resampler Portable is a powerful application you can use to adjust almost any quality or visual style configuration of multiple pictures, without even looking at it. File support allows you to load and save to an impressive variety, while options at your disposal make sure you get the result you’re expecting.