If you need to edit a photo for your social network, here’s your tool: mypictr.You can also allow mypictr to update your photos in Digg or StumbleUpon, or email the photo to you.

A screenshot of the editing page.

If you need to resize your images just before uploading in your email/blog/website, try this simple web solution!

Mypictr

Resizing images couldn’t be more convenient, user-friendly and intuitive than at Mypictr! Upload an image from your computer and you are all set to go! Choose a preformatted size needed for social websites/blogs etc – basically anywhere that you need an avatar or profile picture. Your site is not listed? No problem! Just specify the image dimensions! Ok, that won’t automatically resize the image according to the dimensions you specify, but rather create a frame of that specific width and height. Now, this is rather nifty. You can zoom in and out to make the picture “fit into the frame”! Or you can even move the frame around to select a portion of the image, if you’d rather crop the picture!

Just because they say they make your profile picture, doesn’t mean that you cannot resize a picture for some other use, right?

I firmly believe that if you only need to resize (and crop) images online, then you need not go anywhere else. However the other sites listed below offer some added extras besides resizing images, such as image optimization, basic filters, brightness/contrast adjustment, adding image border etc. Wanna try some out?

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http://resizepic.com/
When it comes to resizing an image, no tool can get any simpler this. After uploading an image, you have to specify the image height and width and your image will be resized accordingly.

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resizepictures
You can only upload an offline image. Be sure to specify if you want to share the image with the world before you upload it. You will be given the option to resize the image according to 5 fixed sizes. If you specify the image as public, then you will be provided instantly with the image code to put in your blog post! You can also get the direct url of the image.

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http://quickthumbnail.com/
Upload images from your browser or paste an image url. You can resize an image according to percentage. You can resize by 6 fixed sizes or 13 standard sizes. And last but not the least, you can even apply basic filters like Greyscale, Sepia, Negative, Emboss, Blur, Sketch and Edge.

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pixer
Upload an image from your computer. Then resize, crop, rotate, flip, apply effects, adjust brightness and contrast, change the saturation or apply some colour effects (greyscale, sepia, incert, red, green, blue).

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http://www.webresizer.com/resizer/
You can resize the image by specifying either the image width or image height pixel – but not according to percentage.

This site has some added extras like ability to crop an image, rotate it, adjust contrast/brightness/colour saturation and also add border/pad/edge around the image. Most importantly, you can reduce image quality to reduce file size.

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http://onlinephotoresizer.com/
This is fairly basic. After uploading an image you can resize according to percentage or pixel, set the quality of jpeg by percentage, rotate the image and create a thumbnail of a size you specify. You can batch upload and download resized images in a Zip file.

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http://www.picresize.com/
You can resize your image according to percent or pixel, you can crop it and also apply some basic special effects. not bad at all!

So what’s the catch? they say it is STILL free. hmm, for how long, I wonder!

Also note that they don’t save or host your images. But you can always open an account at photobucket or flickr (in case you don’t have one already) for that purpose!

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http://www.resizr.com/
You can upload an image either from your computer or paste the image url.

Then you are taken to another page where you can see the image width and image height of the uploaded image. You can resize the image simply by dragging a slider and see the information of image width and height change.

You can save the image as Jpeg/Gif/PNG, sat the quality as low/medium/high (which results in reduced file size), rotate, crop the image, turn the image into black and white and also change the brightness.

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jpeg-optimizer.com
They allow you to optimize your image according to percentage! Now that’s really an advantage. However, you can resize an image only according to pixel, not percentage.

Also you will have to save it somewhere else.

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http://online-image-resize.kategorie.cz/
You have only one option initially – to resize your image according to width, that too in pixels only.

But you get a lot of candies afterwards. You can see how the image looks split in quarters and halves, and get to see how it looks on other sizes, e. g.: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 of the original size and also in half the pixel amount of the original image.

Not bad!
But do remember to save it somewhere else!

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http://www.resize2mail.com/
You canNOT upload an image from a url here. You can resize your image into three fixed sizes only. You can rotate the image and also crop it.

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http://www.resizeimage.4u2ges.com/
This site looks rather ugly and clumsy. but wait! Looks don’t matter always you know!
Once you survive the ugliness you can access a whole lot more that you can’t on the other sites mentioned above.
First click “launch resizer” and then upload an image. Now the real fun begins!
You can resize image according to percentage (you can also enforce “constrain”) and pixels, you can rotate your image and turn it into grayscale!
Also you can put text over your image! You can choose the font, size, colour of text and where it will end up on the image.
How freaking cool is that!
I am telling you, if you want to create a badge for your blog, all these extras can be really handy.

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Shrink Pictures
They give you usual resize by percent or pixel option.
so what else is new? Here you can add a sepia effect in your image! Not bad!
And they also tell you how many bytes your images are after resizing.
Not bad at all!
And if you are really interested, you can also visit a link to host that image immediately:
www.4freeimagehost.com

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I have just found out about PICNIK!

http://www.picnik.com
If you have images in Flickr, Picasa or Facebook, then this is for you. Of course you can add pictures from the web or from your computer. Since I use Facebook, and I can launch it right in Faceebook, this is quite useful for me.

They have many options, you can change the colour of images, resize them, add many effects, sharpen them etc etc.

that’s it for now.
if you come across any handy sites for resizing images, don’t forget to tip me!

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To resize images offline

- Irfanview
- Picasa
- GIMP
- Photofiltre
- FastStone
- Pixia

These are free softwares you can download to resize and optimize your images offline. It is good to know that to reduce loading time of images, it is necessary to resize AND optimize images before uploading them.

This list is taken from the wordpress.com FAQ

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Tell a friend!

There is a great new little Web 2.0 service called MyPictr. It is one of those little sites you can keep in your Web 2.0, making your life easier, toolbox.

You know when you are signing up to YouTube or Myspace and you have create a little avatar to go next to your name? Sometimes those sites don’t have a service to resize/select the part of the image you want to and you end up having a crappy image or you have a quality reduced smaller image, or you just can’t figure any of it out. Anyway, its too much trouble when you can just MyPictr it.

This site allows you to upload an image and then has presets for all the most popular profile and social networking sites that have avatars. You can then drag a translucent selection rectangle over the image to cover what you want to use as the avatar. If the image resolution is just way too large you can scale down the image with the scale tool on the left of the preview pane.

When you are finished selecting what you want your image to look like you can save it and be on your way. It’s that simple. So next time your signing up for a new service, keep this one in mind.