Resizing Images
Batch It! provides you with 4 ways of resizing images
Resizing by Pixels
If you select Resizing by Pixels (either upsize or downsize), there are 4 others settings which would be relevant. They are Width, Height, Keep Dimension Ratio Aspect and Swap Dimension if Portrait Image .
The Keep Dimension Ratio Aspect option when selected would ensure that the images would not get distorted but would look perfect at any dimension.
By selecting Keep Dimension Ratio Aspects, the images which are larger than the width or height would be downsize so that both width and height are equal or smaller than the maximum allowable dimension if Downsize by Pixel is selected. If you use Upsize by Pixel than all images would have to be larger than the minimum allowable dimensions. You may keep either one of the dimension to 0 if you do not have any dimension criteria for that dimension.
If Keep Dimension Ratio Aspects is not selected, all images would be resized based on the maximum width and height. Images can be upsized or downsized depending on the set parameters.
Resizing by Percentage
If you select Resizing by Percentage, the Percentage setting would be relevant. This would determine the percentage scale of the processed image to the original file dimension. All Resizing by Percentage method would handle Dimension Ratio Aspects automatically.
The base ratio is 100% which would be equivalent to no resizing. If you set it to 120% it will upsize the image by 20%. If you set it to 80%, it will scale down the image to 80% of the original file size.
The program does not handle decimal placement but whole numbers.
Resizing by Ratio
The program allows you to resize images by ratio from 1/4x to 3/4x the original image size. Dimension Ratio Aspects would be handled by the program automatically.
Note : Images which have dimensions under 30 pixels may be distorted even if dimension ratio aspects are used due to the rounding issues in the computation. Any images which are upsized may have its quality degraded due to the lack of details.
Resizing in Frame
By selecting this option, all images would be resized to fit the set Width and Height. All images would retain their ratio aspect properties within the frame. Any part of the frame which is not covered by the resized image would be filled with the selected background color.
If you use the Drop Shadow option, it will take the color of the frame as its background so as to blend it seamlessly.