Thankfully, there are lots of tools and photo editors that you can now easily use to resize your photos in bulk photos, whether you’re online or offline, and all for free. In this article, we’ll show you step-by-step how to bulk-resize photos in Windows 10, so you can save time when next you have to batch-resize photos for any occasion.
How to Bulk Resize Photos in Windows 10 via Mail Recipient
Most Microsoft Windows built-in photo editors like Paint and Photos allow you to resize single photos. Unfortunately, they do not support image bulk-resizing yet.
Thankfully, you can easily batch-resize photos in Windows 10 using a little-known mail recipient hack that tricks the system into thinking you want to email the photos.
Here’s how:
Open your Windows File Explorer. Locate and select the photos you want to batch-resize. Right-click on your selection, scroll down the context menu, and select Send to. Select Mail recipient from the flyout menu. Click on the image size dropdown and select your preferred image size. There are only four options to choose from. When done, click on Attach. Microsoft Outlook email composer will launch. Once it does, click on the first image. Press Ctrl + A to select all the images. Right-click on the selection and click Save As. Set your target location and save your resized images. The size and number of images involved will determine the speed of the process.
The only drawback with the mail recipient method is that you cannot set a custom size for your image. To fix that, you can try bulk-resizing photos in Windows 10 with PowerToys.
How to Bulk Resize Photos in Windows 10 Using PowerToys
You can also batch resize images in Windows 10 using the popular PowerToys. Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities designed by Microsoft for power users of its OS. It allows you to further customize and personalize your Windows OS, and there are lots of cool things you can do with PowerToys.
That being said, here’s how to batch resize images in Windows 10 using PowerToys.
First, download and install PowerToys if you haven’t already. Scroll down to the Assets section and click on the latest PowerToysSetup version ending with -x64. exe. Image Resizer is normally enabled by default in PowerToys. To confirm this, launch PowerToys and click on Image Resizer from the sidebar, then turn on the switch if it isn’t already. Now, open File Explorer and select the images you want to bulk-resize. Right-click on your selection. From the context menu, click on Resize pictures. Click on the Select a size dropdown and select among Small, Medium, Large, and Phone. Click on Custom if you want a unique size, then click on the appropriate dropdown to define your parameters. When done, check any of the available checkboxes that apply. Click on Resize, and your images will be resized accordingly and saved in the same format and in the same folder as the original images.
Note that the speed of the conversion process depends on the number and size of the images involved, the smaller, the faster.
How to Configure PowerToys to Display a Pre-Set Image Size
If you often resize all your images to a particular size, you can configure PowerToys to show that image size by default without going the Custom route each time you want to batch resize images.
In addition to the image size, you can also configure encoding and file settings for the Image Resizer tool in PowerToys. PowerToys also has a Color Picker tool that lets you find any color anywhere on your screen.
How to Configure Image Size in PowerToys
Here’s how to configure image size settings for PowerToys’ Image Resizer:
Launch PowerToys from your desktop or Start menu, scroll down the General settings options, and click on Image Resizer. Alternatively, open File Explorer, select any two images, right-click on them, click Resize pictures, then click on the gear icon in the bottom-left corner of the dialog box to access Image Resizer settings. Go to Presets under the Image sizes section and click on the Add a size button. Click on the pen icon, rename the new preset size, and set the parameters. You can customize the fit, width, height, and pixels. When done, simply click anywhere outside the size editor. You can create unique preset sizes for different things, e. g. , NFTs, Etsy, and Shopify. To delete a profile, click on the bin icon to your right, and click Yes.
How to Configure Encoding Options in PowerToys
By default, Image Resize saves resized images in the source format, i.e. the same format as the original images. If this fails for any reason, Image Resizer will attempt to save the resized images in the format specified in Fallback encoding.
To configure encoding settings for Image Resizer:
While still in Image Resizer settings, scroll down to the Encoding section. Click on the Fallback encoding dropdown to your right and select your preferred option. JPEG quality level is set to 90% by default. You can use the slider to adjust this. PNG interlacing and TIFF compression are both set to default. You can change these using the appropriate dropdown button.
How to Configure the File Settings PowerToys Image Resizer
You can also specify how Image Resizer names your resized images. Here’s how:
Scroll down to the File section of Image Resizer settings. Under Filename format, click on the space provided and specify how Image Resizer should name your resized images. For instance, Etsy 1 (Etsy 2). This will help you to differentiate between the original and resized images since both are saved to the same folder. Under File modified timestamp, you can click on the dropdown to select how your preferred timestamp settings for resized images. You can either set this to the time of resize or when the original image was created.
Although these Image Resizer configurations are optional, they can help you to improve and optimize your image resizing results. We’ve also covered how to batch convert and resize images on a Mac.
Do It All From Your Windows 10 Computer
You can now use these tools and tricks to automatically batch resize all your photos at once. This way, you can save time on resizing images individually to match image size requirements for different platforms.
So, whether you’re resizing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of photos from your camping trip, or for your Etsy store, you can make it a breeze using the mail recipient hack or the almighty PowerToys.
