Resizor review
Posted on November 16, 2007 - Filed Under Digital, Photo | Leave a Comment | 64 views
You always wanted to make some of your smaller size pictures taken maybe with an older digital camera bigger? Spent hours trying to achieve this in Photoshop or some other program just to see that the results aren’t what you were expecting. Now you have the perfect tool for that job and the best thing about it is that it is free.
This program is called simply Resizor. Its name came from two words, Resize and Razor. Program is quite simple. You can open the image you are working on, save the result, reset image size and process the image. When you load the image you can enter new pixel size or Image size, then you choose Method and resampling filter.
Resizor
You can choose between 15 resampling filters and by undoing the result you can choose which is the best solution for the image you are working on. When finished just click on save button and you are done.
Resampling filters:
- Hermite
- Box
- Bilinear
- Bell
- Gaussian
- Quadratic B-Spline
- Cubic B-Spline
- Lanczos
- Mitchell
- Cosine
- Catmull-Rom
- Quadratic
- Cubic Convolution
- Hamming
- Blackman
For the testing purpose I took a 100% crop from one of mine photos. Crop size was quite small 400px by 290px. Then I went and in Photoshop I changed its size to 1200px by 870px using Bicubic Smoother method. Then I went and did the same thing in Resizor. Experimented with different Resampling Filters and went for Lanczos resampling filter and Hermite resampling filter. Results are shown below
Lanczos filter
Hermite filter
As you can see on this crops Resizor brings a little bit more details to the photo and in the combination with many filters you can find the right one for your photo.
When I tried downsizing the original photo (3000×2000 px to 640x424px) it took program around 1 hour and 55 minutes to finish the process!!! Some kind of a software bug cause there is no logical explanation for that.
Razor is a free program and you can download it from this address. Program comes in one exe file and does not require installation.
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