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

Light Image Resizer – ObviousIdea’s all-time best seller, Millions of images have been resized with our software!
– previously called ‘VSO Image Resizer’

Key functions

• Resize images, resize pictures and resize photos – compress, convert, and easily create copies
• Create beautiful collage layouts for social media with just a few clicks
• Resize and convert multiple images at a time
• High quality results using fast multi-core, photo resize technology
• High quality image resizing filters – Lanczos and Bicubic for best compression quality, and Linear for speed
• 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 iPhone, HDTV, Email) or create your own
• Create custom PDF pages!
• Easily convert JPEG to PDF
• Adjust brightness and contrast, change color depth (BMP and JPEG)

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 Obvious Idea Picture Resizer/Photo 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, like jpg to PDF; 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 FULL HD resolution wallpaper images, Ipod, NTSC, 640 x 480. Access to profiles in 1 click with the shell integration.

Digital frame
Transfer photos and optimize space on digital frames with the Digital Picture Frame Wizard. You can resize to the frame’s supported resolution, and add even more photos for viewing !

System Requirements

Minimum: Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon XP, 512 MB RAM (Windows XP)
Recommended: Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent, 2 GB RAM (Windows 7 or above)
Best Performance: Core i5/i7 or equivalent, 4 GB RAM (Windows 7 or above)

Supported Operating Systems

Our Image Resizer and Image Converter software is compatible with Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11. There is no version available for Mac.

We consider our Light Image Resizer to be one of the best resize photo software programs. It is easy to batch resize photos with Obvious Idea.