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A Fixture
Dusted off and revised the KitSpy Image Cruncher returns.
What is it?
It debuted last year as a tool to resize your images effortlessly without the use of expensive programs like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. It's web-based so there isn't anything to install on your computer.
Simply upload an image and the Cruncher does the rest, when your image appears on the page save it to your pc and it's optimized for web usage. Optimized? this will take an over-sized image and make faster loading (for our fellow netizens who still use dial-up).
Images have two distinctly different "sizes":
First it reduces the scale of the images to 640 x 480 without any proportion change. It will not enlarge images under 640 x 480 any larger but will scale down images lager within the constraints of 640x480 (this also prevents much side-scrolling within forum postings to see the whole image).
Second, it will strip any unecessary data from your image file ie: all Exif data (here's sample Nikon's Exif data: http://www.exif.org/samples/nikon-e950.html) each image taken with a digital camera contians within each file/image a ton of extraneous data that does nothing but increase file size.
Lastly, note that after your image is crunched and you go to save it, the image will have a randomly generated filename - this is a failsafe to make sure you don't unintentionaly overwrite your source file with the crunched one
without further ado:
KitSpy Image Cruncher
What is it?
It debuted last year as a tool to resize your images effortlessly without the use of expensive programs like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. It's web-based so there isn't anything to install on your computer.
Simply upload an image and the Cruncher does the rest, when your image appears on the page save it to your pc and it's optimized for web usage. Optimized? this will take an over-sized image and make faster loading (for our fellow netizens who still use dial-up).
Images have two distinctly different "sizes":
- Dimensions - xy Physical size like 4 x 6 or 1024x780
- File Size - How much space it uses ie: 128Kb or 1.4Mb
First it reduces the scale of the images to 640 x 480 without any proportion change. It will not enlarge images under 640 x 480 any larger but will scale down images lager within the constraints of 640x480 (this also prevents much side-scrolling within forum postings to see the whole image).
Second, it will strip any unecessary data from your image file ie: all Exif data (here's sample Nikon's Exif data: http://www.exif.org/samples/nikon-e950.html) each image taken with a digital camera contians within each file/image a ton of extraneous data that does nothing but increase file size.
Lastly, note that after your image is crunched and you go to save it, the image will have a randomly generated filename - this is a failsafe to make sure you don't unintentionaly overwrite your source file with the crunched one
without further ado:
KitSpy Image Cruncher
