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Online (no download, platform independent) Applications
GifWorks.
For GIFs, animated or no.
http://www.gifworks.com/image_editor.html
On Your Windows Computer
Image Resizer
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
My friend asked me to explain, to explain in 5 minutes or less, the difference between some of the different image file formats! I’ll give it a shot, bare-naked, like.
There’s a crapload of different formats for pictures, and they all save the picture differently. There’s two main kinds, raster and vector.
VECTOR IMAGES
A simple vector image [...]
Factoid: The lovely, enormous images we take with our digital cameras are too big for displaying on the web. Here’s a few reasons why:
(1) Because we can’t see better than 72 or 90 dpi on our screens anyhow.
(2) Even with North America’s huge number of users on highspeed internet, who wants to wait an interminable [...]