How to Bulk Resize Photos in Windows 10
Photos come in all shapes and sizes, yet sometimes, you may need to resize them for optimum results. Whereas, manually resizing a single photo is easy and straightforward, it isn’t when you have thousands of them to work through.
Thankfully, there are lots of tools and photo editors that you can now easily use to resize your photos in bulk photos, whether you’re online or offline, and all for free. In this article, we’ll show you step-by-step how to bulk-resize photos in Windows 10, so you can save time when next you have to batch-resize photos for any occasion.
How to Bulk Resize Photos in Windows 10 via Mail Recipient
Most Microsoft Windows built-in photo editors like Paint and Photos allow you to resize single photos. Unfortunately, they do not support image bulk-resizing yet.
Thankfully, you can easily batch-resize photos in Windows 10 using a little-known mail recipient hack that tricks the system into thinking you want to email the photos.
Here’s how:
The only drawback with the mail recipient method is that you cannot set a custom size for your image. To fix that, you can try bulk-resizing photos in Windows 10 with PowerToys.
How to Bulk Resize Photos in Windows 10 Using PowerToys
you could also batch resize images in Windows 10 using the popular PowerToys. Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities designed by Microsoft for power users of its OS. It allows you to further customize and personalize your Windows OS, and there are lots ofcool things you can do with PowerToys.
That being said, here’s how to batch resize images in Windows 10 using PowerToys.
Note that the speed of the conversion process depends on the number and size of the images involved, the smaller, the faster.
How to Configure PowerToys to Display a Pre-Set Image Size
If you often resize all your images to a particular size, you can configure PowerToys to show that image size by default without going the Custom route each time you want to batch resize images.
In addition to the image size, you can also configure encoding and file settings for the Image Resizer tool in PowerToys. PowerToys also has a Color Picker tool that lets youfind any color anywhere on your screen.
How to Configure Image Size in PowerToys
Here’s how to configure image size settings for PowerToys' Image Resizer:
How to Configure Encoding Options in PowerToys
By default, Image Resize saves resized images in the source format, i.e. the same format as the original images. If this fails for any reason, Image Resizer will attempt to save the resized images in the format specified in Fallback encoding.
To configure encoding settings for Image Resizer:
How to Configure the File Settings PowerToys Image Resizer
You can also specify how Image Resizer names your resized images. Here’s how:
Although these Image Resizer configurations are optional, they can help you to improve and optimize your image resizing results. We’ve also coveredhow to batch convert and resize images on a Mac.
Do It All From Your Windows 10 Computer
you’re able to now use these tools and tricks to automatically batch resize all your photos at once. This way, you can save time on resizing images individually to match image size requirements for different platforms.
So, whether you’re resizing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of photos from your camping trip, or for your Etsy store, you can make it a breeze using the mail recipient hack or the almighty PowerToys.
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