For those of you using the Ubuntu with the Nautilus file manager, or any other Linux distribution with Nautilus, here is a quick and easy tip for resizing images.  It is called the Nautilus image converter.

To use the Nautilus image converter simply go to the command line and install by typing “sudo aptitude install nautilus-image-converter”, no quotations. Once installed restart nautilus by using the command “nautilus -q”.  Now you can simply right click on any image and have the option to resize or rotate it in the drop down menu.

For Gimp users there is a plugin called David’s Batch Processor.   It can be downloaded for linux or Windows here or installed as part of the “gimp-plugin-registry” using Synaptic package manager.   This plugin allows many more options than the Nautilus option including batch resize.

For more information on image optimization or if you prefer an online solutions to image resizing please refer to this blog.

Enjoy!