Okay so i like taking lots of photos on my camera of stages of creation of my brewing setups, and just for posting stuff on these and other forums.
However one annoying thing is having to take like 10-15 photos, resize them, and then choose which ones to upload, then upload them all, then link them all into the forum post! To stop this, i just spent a few hours coding a small windows program which has a VERY simple job:
Drag 1 image onto the program and it will let you resize it to 320x240, 640x480, or 1024x768. I think these are decent sizes for posting on forums, especially the middle one. These resolutions were picked due to aspect ratio - photos straight off most digital cameras will resize without the image looking 'squished'.
Drag 2 or more images onto the program and here's where the magic begins. It
will resize all images, then it will create a NEW image, which has all the images top to bottom inside it. So you only have to post one image to the forum!.
To show an example of the output i took a photo of some hops scales i got, 3 images in total. Dragging the 3 images onto the program and hitting 320x240 outputs this single collage image:
Another cool feature: In windows vista, press the windows key on your keyboard and "R" at the same time and you'll get a dialog box saying "Run". In the "Open:" box type this:
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
It will open up a folder. Copy or move the JpegCollage program into this folder. Now, instead of having to move your images to the same folder as the JpegCollage program, just select the images you want, right click on any one of them and go to the "Send To.." menu, and click on JpegCollage program. It will drop your collage image in the current folder, so you can make a collage without moving images anywhere.
The program is very small and written in .net 3.5. It is simple enough that you should not get any errors. if you do please post them here and i will attempt to fix them. However please make sure you have .NET framework 3.5 installed before reporting errors.
The prorgam can be found here:
JpegCollage
It has been virus scanned with AVG Free and found to be 100% clean, this is a legitimate program, if your virus scanner reports a virus notify me immediately so I can investigate.
If and when I have time i will add more features (before you ask, yes i will hopefully add a feature called "Don't resize" which collages the images into one image without resizing)
cheers
ps: since i can only really post it in off-topic, but its probably handy to a lot of people, if you like this program maybe next time you use it on the forum point out that the program is available in here so others can benefit.
However one annoying thing is having to take like 10-15 photos, resize them, and then choose which ones to upload, then upload them all, then link them all into the forum post! To stop this, i just spent a few hours coding a small windows program which has a VERY simple job:
Drag 1 image onto the program and it will let you resize it to 320x240, 640x480, or 1024x768. I think these are decent sizes for posting on forums, especially the middle one. These resolutions were picked due to aspect ratio - photos straight off most digital cameras will resize without the image looking 'squished'.
Drag 2 or more images onto the program and here's where the magic begins. It
will resize all images, then it will create a NEW image, which has all the images top to bottom inside it. So you only have to post one image to the forum!.
To show an example of the output i took a photo of some hops scales i got, 3 images in total. Dragging the 3 images onto the program and hitting 320x240 outputs this single collage image:
Another cool feature: In windows vista, press the windows key on your keyboard and "R" at the same time and you'll get a dialog box saying "Run". In the "Open:" box type this:
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
It will open up a folder. Copy or move the JpegCollage program into this folder. Now, instead of having to move your images to the same folder as the JpegCollage program, just select the images you want, right click on any one of them and go to the "Send To.." menu, and click on JpegCollage program. It will drop your collage image in the current folder, so you can make a collage without moving images anywhere.
The program is very small and written in .net 3.5. It is simple enough that you should not get any errors. if you do please post them here and i will attempt to fix them. However please make sure you have .NET framework 3.5 installed before reporting errors.
The prorgam can be found here:
JpegCollage
It has been virus scanned with AVG Free and found to be 100% clean, this is a legitimate program, if your virus scanner reports a virus notify me immediately so I can investigate.
If and when I have time i will add more features (before you ask, yes i will hopefully add a feature called "Don't resize" which collages the images into one image without resizing)
cheers
ps: since i can only really post it in off-topic, but its probably handy to a lot of people, if you like this program maybe next time you use it on the forum point out that the program is available in here so others can benefit.
