How to resize images on Windows 10 with PowerToys

Sometimes you lot have a photograph that's likewise big for an email attachment or where you'd like to utilize it. While you tin can export images into smaller sizes using many editors, Microsoft's PowerToys has a simple tool that lets you lot resize images in bulk that integrates straight with the File Explorer. With just a few clicks, you can resize images to a gear up of preset sizes or any custom size that you'd like. At that place are also encoding options and several other options y'all can select to create images. PowerToys is currently in beta, but it has a collection of handy piddling tools that make managing images easier.

Products used in this guide

Handy little toys: PowerToys (Gratuitous at GitHub)

Getting PowerToys

PowerToys is currently in beta and distributed in GitHub. To become PowerToys, y'all just demand to go to the app'southward releases folio and download the latest version.

Become to the Releases page on GitHub for PowerToys.
Click the near recent release within assets to download PowerToys. For case, "PowerToysSetup-0.16.one-x64.msi".
Click on the downloaded file.
Click Side by side twice (read through the license before clicking next the second fourth dimension).
Tick the boxes to indicate if you want PowerToys to start at launch and if you want to create a shortcut for PowerToys.
Click Install.
Click Yes to verify the download.
Click Stop. At this point, y'all tin besides take a box ticked to launch PowerToys.

PowerToys is at present running on your PC. If y'all opted to have it launch at startup, it would run in the background on your PC, and you don't accept to think almost information technology.

How to resize images

Once PowerToys is running on your PC, you can use it within the File Explorer.

Open File Explorer.
Select the images y'all want to resize.
Right-click over your selection.
Select Resize pictures.
Select the size that you'd like to create.
Pick your additional options using the checkboxes within the Image Resizer.
Select Resize.

At the bottom of the Image Resizer, there are options to "Make pictures smaller merely non larger," "Resize the original picture (don't create copies)," and "Ignore the orientation of pictures." You lot tin can choose to turn each option on or off by checking or unchecking its respective box. If y'all click Settings at the bottom of the Image Resizer, you tin also change the default sizes, change your encoding preference, and change naming parameters. The Prototype Resizer within PowerToys is very minimal, and so there aren't a lot of options or sections to dig through.