Light Image Resizer – ObviousIdea’s all-time best seller, Millions of images have been resized with our software!
– previously called ‘VSO Image Resizer’
Easily create collages and convert images, photos and pictures with ObviousIdea’s light image resizer and image converter software. Simply and powerfully, it resizes and converts images, one by one or in batch mode. Images can be bulk edited by applying profiles.
The program is available for all Windows computers. Just right click to resize images as copies or continue to work on the originals. Then simply share your resized images and collages online with friends.
Windows 11 · 10 · 8.1
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Version 7.1.0.58 · 44 MB · System Requirements
Quick Demo
Features
- Resize images, resize pictures and resize photos – compress, convert, and easily create copies
- All common image formats are supported, details see below (“Supported Formats“)
- Create beautiful collage layouts for social media with just a few clicks
- Resize and convert multiple images at a time
- Create e-mail friendly images or use them for internet publishing (optionally with optimized compression)
- Sort, rename or add a watermark to protect your pictures from being stolen
- Choose from a wide range of pre-defined profiles (like 1K, 2K, Email) or create your own
- Easily convert between image formats (for example JPEG to PNG, or vice versa)
- Shell integration to add your favorite profiles directly to Windows context menu
- Create PDF documents from your images, or vice versa
- Create beautiful collage layouts for social media with just a few clicks (see video…)
- Take screenshots or perform common editing tasks like adding text, highlight, blur, and more with the new included Light Image Editor
Key Features
Resize and convert
Use the Light Image Resizer to resize photos. The batch image converter can easily convert your pictures into different formats. Select your output resolution, resize the original or create a copy, move and/or rename files or compress, choose a specific destination for your processed images. You can work on individual photos or edit large numbers of images by simply doing a batch resize in just one click.
Extra settings
Add your own watermark to protect your work or add a copyright to photos with html-like text formatting and transparency support. Customize pictures by converting them to sepia or add a border. Use the live preview to see what the final result will look like before actually processing the image. The ObviousIdea Photo Resizer/Picture Resizer works on files, subfolders and folders, and supports RAW formats. With multi-core support integrated, you can convert images even faster. Launch the application easily from Windows shell explorer with a right click on the image or folder.
Output and export
Photos can be added directly as attachments, individually or in a ZIP file, to email by using the publish function, without exceeding the maximum size permitted by email servers. Create PDF files from your images (convert JPG to PDF for example); do this for individual or multiple images. Edit, create, export, backup new profiles with your favorite settings. The most popular profiles are already pre-defined, such as 1K, 2K, Watermark, Web optimized, etc. Access to profiles in one click with the shell integration.
Collage layouts
Arrange beautiful collage layouts with several pictures, only with a few clicks. Just choose your images, select a layout template, check the order, and save your collage. Perfect for sharing on social media or your blog post.
Screenshots
Supported Formats
| Format | Read | Write | Notes |
| JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg) | |||
| Bitmap (.bmp) | with 32 bit support | ||
| PNG (.png) | with transparency | ||
| GIF (.gif) | including animated GIFs | ||
| TIFF (.tif) | |||
| JPEG 2000 (.jp2) | |||
| PDF (.pdf) | |||
| Photoshop (.psd) | |||
| Icon (.ico) | |||
| WebP (.webp) | |||
| HEIC (.heic) | may require free Extension from Microsoft Store: Download | ||
| Camera Raw Formats | including Adobe Digital Negative (.dng), Canon (.cr2, .cr3, .crw), Fuji (.raf), Minolta (.mrw), Nikon (.nef), Olympus (.orf), Panasonic (.rw2), Pentax (.pef), Samsung (.srw), Sony (.arw) | ||
| Metafile (.wmf, .emf) | |||
| Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) | |||
| AVIF (.avif,) | Requires a free plugin: ImageMagick Plugin | ||
| JPEG XL (.jxl,) | |||
| JPEG XR (.jxr, .wdp, .hdp) | |||
| Portable PixMap (.ppm) | |||
| DirectDraw Surface (.dds) | |||
| PCX (.pcx) | |||
| Targa (.tga) | |||
| ZIP (.zip) | processed images can be stored inside a ZIP archive (optional) |
Feel free to contact us if you would like a format to be added that is not currently supported by our software!
What’s new in version 7
- Context menu integration for Windows 11 is here!! Right-click your images from the file explorer
- Now includes Light Image Editor with features like adding text, highlight, blur, shapes, and much more…
- In this new app coming with LIR7, you can make screenshots easily with OCR applied
- Profiles have been reset with new names, easier to use like 1k, 2k, 4k, or with a file size target (256Kb, 1Mb, 2Mb or your own file size requirement) (old profiles are renamed LIR6_xx)
- Profiles are now stored as individual files in a sub-folder under user’s documents. It is synchronized with OneDrive cloud account so you can use your profiles between your desktop and laptop.
- Incremental search in profile list by typing initial letters
- Option to split long images to several pages for Create PDF action (see PDF tab)
- PDF, JPEG or any photo can be a source for a OCR task (side file or in metadata). This makes your JPEG searchable by keywords in your local Windows search.
- Output/convert images to HEIC format (a popular format supported by Apple for iPhone and MacOS)
- Lossless compression option for WebP output
- Watermark text tags for original file size, extension, and dimensions (use your files metadata for contact sheet, captioning, documentation)
- Watermark panel has been improved, the setup package is coming with free sample of watermark with transparency.
- “Append” option for text fields in metadata properties
System Requirements
Your system should meet the following minimum requirements:
- Windows 11 / 10 / 8.1 (64 or 32 bit)
- 2.0 GHz processor
- 4 GB of RAM
- 500 MB of free hard drive space
Note: There is no native version available for Mac OS, but you can use Windows emulation such as Parallels Desktop.