Digital cameras make it so easy to take snaps that there's a danger of pictures piling up on a hard disk without anybody ever seeing them.

A good way of giving pictures a wider audience is to display them on a web page or send them via email, but digital picture file sizes can be huge and before they can be used for either purpose they may need to be cut down in size.

Visualizer Photo Resize is a free program dedicated to this cause. Unlike many image-editing applications it offers a batch-processing mode, operating without user intervention on any number of files, so it can save literally hours of tedious work.

Its only limitation is that it works solely on pictures stored in JPG format, which is the standard format of most digital cameras.

So, refer to the workshop in issue 214 of Computeractive and then download Visualizer Photo Resize.