Most Popular Scripts | Tools & Utilities | Image Manipulation

In our daily life as a web designer or webmaster, there are many cases that we have to work on resizing and adding some text onto a picture. For instance, if you work on a gallery page, you would like to have a similar size (dimensions) for the all pictures in your gallery and also equal size for the thumbnail. We can use various tools to achieve this, either work in batch or do it manually one by one. If your gallery does not have many pictures updated over time then you could consider manual update using Adobe Photoshop. Following are the simplified steps on how to do it and have been put to the test on different version of Photoshop. Please follow each step sequentially.

Neomesh Image Console is a command line image converter allowing you to convert image formats, create GIF animations, join images horizontally or vertically and manipulate your images. Image Console is able to load 22 and save 17 image formats including BMP, EMF, GIF, ICO, J2K, JPG, JPE, JPEG, JP2, JPC, PCX, PGM, PNG, PNM, PPM, PGM, PGX, TGA, RAS, TIF, WBMP, WMF.

Use this Photoshop-like color picker to help choose colors for your websites, programs or office applications. Displays Decimal, RGB, VB and HTML color codes for each selected color.

Web Thummer is a Web site capture tool that outputs any size JPG file of a given HTML document, local or remote. It can automate the process of capturing hundreds of documents into thumbnail sized OR full size, FULL LENGTH images for purposes ranging from visual indexing, to archiving. Webmasters can present links in a visual fashion, and template designers can rapidly turn folders full of template files into thumbnails sized images for display. Local file functions can scan folders (recursively or not), to generate images of any size, directly in their respective folders. Web Thummer will save you substantially more than it's selling price in terms of time, the very first time you use it. Thummer is extremely easy to use, and the speed at which it works is a relief to anyone who has ever done this the old fashion way. And Thummer's FULL LENGTH mode will amuse even the Web veteran.

TinyStone Web Album will help you to create professional looking web galleries, based on graphics themes from all photos you took with your digital camera and share them with your family and friends over the Internet. A thumbnail browser and a powerful HTML page generator make it the ideal tool for viewing, organizing, converting and archiving your digital images

This application makes it a breeze to resize images in bulk. BatchMagic's interface won't confuse even the greenest newbie, as it features large, clearly labeled icons for adding files or folders, changing settings, and converting images. Once you've chosen the files you want to resize, you decide whether you want your new images to be thumbnails, medium-size, large, or all three.

PicaJet Photo Recovery allows you to recover deleted or formatted images from almost any type of media cards used by digital cameras (MemoryStick, CompactFlash, SecureDigital, MicroDrive, MemoryStick, etc). It scans the selected drive and presents you with thumbnail images of all pictures that were found, with an option to view them in full size as well.

Super Icon Helper is a utility that allows you to extract all icons out of the files on your hard drive.The colors may be monochrome (one bit), 16-color (four bits), 256-color (eight bits), true-color (24 bits), or true-color and alpha-channel (32 bits). Super Icon Helper can extract icons from both 16-bit and 32-bit applications and libraries, including the following types: ICO, DLL, EXE, OCX. You can save them to a file.

Stop wasting you time converting images one by one. Quit getting frustrated over complicated image processing software like Photoshop that make performing the most basic image editing tasks a headache. Simply get Advanced Batch Converter to rename, resize, rotate, flip, mirror, crop images in bulk for your within seconds. You can also apply various filters, watermarks, morphing effects and enhance colors. And it's absolutely FREE to try!

Use this powerful utility to edit icons and customize Windows. IconXP contains a variety of paint tools to let you edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. For Windows XP icons, you can add impressive drop shadow and smooth effects. You can import and export ICO, BMP, JPEG, CUR, ANI, GIF, WMF, PNG, XPM, XBM, WBMP and Adobe Photoshop PSD files. You can customize Windows Desktop icons and folder icons.

Organize, enhance, print, find and share your digital photos with this elegant, all-in-one, digital photo organizer. You can now enjoy the same simplicity of the traditional photo album with your digital pictures. PicaJet makes sharing photos easy with a one-click picture-sending feature. The handy editing options and dynamic zoom let you play around with your digital photos to get the perfect picture. Change as much as you like because the original image stays intact; the changes you make are applied at export. If you're looking for a photo of Grandpa at Christmas but can't remember much more about the picture, PicaJet can search for the photo by the date it was taken, by category, by rating, or by user-defined criteria. The product features a slide-show mode, creating perfect web-galleries, skin support, image copying with dynamic editing, metadata import/export, burn CD/DVD, direct import from digital camera or scanner, and the printing of multiple photos. PicaJet supports an unlimited number of images and lets you resize your photos without a loss in quality.

Easy Watermark Creator is an easy-to-use tool for adding visible watermarks to your pictures and photos. Watermarks can contain text (phrase, file name, file number), image, date (current values or from EXIF) and can be solid or semi-transparent. You might use this software for protection from unauthorized use of your pictures on the Web, as an image constructor, to draw a texture on your pictures, etc.

This program uses sophisticated proprietary algorithm to automatically detect and correct 'red eye' in digital photos. You can even process photos without opening them - simply select one or multiple photos on your computer or camera, right-click and select 'Fix Red Eye' command from context menu. You also can load photos one by one to the program and use selection tool to improve precision of processing in complex cases

MidasPhoto makes organizing, editing and sharing photos quick and easy. You can also turn your photos into stunning photo Websites, instantly. Find any photo by date. Make simple edits: crop, rotate, reduce red eye. Automatically optimize photos for emailing, and send entire photo albums in one file. Easily organize your photos into albums so you can find the pictures you want without having to look through files and folders on your machine.

ScreenDiscoverer is an effective tool for capturing images, zooming, snapshoting and choosing a color from wherever you want and displaying the color info in HTML, HEX, RGB, HSV and CMYK formats. Users can define their own entirely customizable hot keys combinations. There is an ability to save captured objects to clipboard as well as to an image file in different formats (.bmp, .gif, .jpg, .png, .tif) and send images to printer and to E-mail.

The ultimate Flash menu-maker. Spice up your web-site with animated buttons, expandable menus, floating navigation and other Flash animations. You can even use any True-type font in your menu. 1 Cool Menu FX Tool features a step-by-step user interface. In just a few clicks, the complete novice can create effects that would normally take hours to achieve - it even creates all the required HTML and JavaScript for you. Includes FrontPage Add-in.

View images and photos as slide shows with different effects at your computer with this fast, compact, flexible and very easy to use image viewer. It supports 340 image formats. It also contains various items for controlling the image view with rotation, zooming, mirroring, resizing, undoing/redoing last operation, etc. You can also view slide show in full screen with fading effect, set a wallpaper on your desktop and more.

Make your images ready for the web and create thumbnails for web photo albums, thumbnail galleries and slide shows with this easy-to-use wizard-style software. It converts many images at once from basic graphic formats to JPG and PNG, edits them and also creates an appropriate thumbnails. For example, you can resize a folder of images to standards of your gallery, rotate, rename, crop and save an appropriate thumbnail for every image at once.

Combine batch image conversion from any format to JPG with plenty of image editing operations. For example, you can resize a folder of images with different extension to half the original size, rotate, change colors, rename, crop, make borders, and save in JPG - all in a single step. It can be easily integrated to shell so you can work on your images right from Windows.

Create photo albums, thumbnail galleries and slide shows with your digital pictures for web and home. It automatically generates thumbnails and all the HTML code. The Wizard interface guides you through, and lets you publish your photos and images into professional looking web albums easily. You can also modify any layout template, resize and edit images, add captions and links, upload pages to your web-site, burn on CD and much more.