10 hasn't erased Paint Shop Pro 5 for me, but it does do annoying re-associations to Paint instead with anything PSP's associated with (regardless if Paint supports the format or not)

pentiumspeed wrote on 2023-02-04, 02:08:

Ever since when my windows 10 Pro erased the Photo Shop Pro 5.x, I have not looked into alternative graphic editing programs.

How is the GIMP? It is available on windows as well.

Cheers,

If you just want to resize photo by typing in pixels x pixels, then JPEG-Resizer could work. It's free and it's portable (no installation required), but it cannot do anything else beside resizing.

Just resizing: MS PowerToys have a Shell extension for quickly resizing images https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
Image processing: paint.net is my recommendation for a free, simple yet powerful application

ImageMagick, e.g.

1convert InputFile.png -resize 1920x1080 OutputFile.jpg

...and it can do so much more. IMHO it's the tool to use for all non-interactive image editing.

I've used Irfanview for years for basic stuff like this.

All my machines run "IrfanView" for almost 20 years now.

Image editing ? Paint.net
Resizing, filters, changing bit depth, etc ? XnView Classic (or multiplatform XnViewMP).

If it's mainly just resizing or cropping images, MS Paint can do the job.

Some times you need to know exactly what pixels to set as such as creating avatar pictures. Which I'm trying to do.

Cheers,

There's Windows Image Resizer which is nothing to do with windows but a great little tool that will go into your right click menu. You can resize to whatever pixel x pixel you want or maintain aspect ratio and only do the horizontal and it'll tell you the Vertical pixels etc.

https://download.cnet.com/Image-Resizer-for-W … 4-75937402.html

definitely irfanview, you can type the size you want in pixels or choose some handy pre sets like "half" and "double" and so on

konc wrote on 2023-02-04, 10:00:

Just resizing: MS PowerToys have a Shell extension for quickly resizing images https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

This is what I use for bulk resizing. It is super convenient.

For any other editing, I still use Paint Shop Pro 7.04. I've been using it for ~22 years with no problems. Though I'm still on Windows 10...

pentiumspeed wrote on 2023-02-04, 02:08:

Ever since when my windows 10 Pro erased the Photo Shop Pro 5.x, I have not looked into alternative graphic editing programs.

How is the GIMP? It is available on windows as well.

Cheers,

I've been using Irfanview for years for simple tasks like this.
I think GIMP should also be able to resize by typing in what size in pixels. I just never tried it using GIMP.
Still, if you want just a lightweight program that can do that, I'd recommend Irfanview.