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Welcome to my Zoicks.Com Irfanview Help Page

A special thanks goes to everyone's favorite Photos/HTML expert, Bob Bull (Bobal), who originally posted this helpful tip.

To Resize, Crop, Convert pictures to JPG or GIF (and more) use this FREE image editor - Irvanfiew

Irfanview is a great image editor and it is very easy to use. There are lots of wonderful tutorials and help sites written that support Irfanview. I have included a few links here.

You can get the free Irfanview download here:
c/net download.com

Here is an excellent (Flash required) tutorial for Irfanview:
http://www.indeavors.com/resources/tutorials.htm

For specific instructions on cropping/resizing your images, check out this Irfanview tutorial from NK Tower:
http://www.deadzoom.com/member/nktower/tutorials/IrfanView_Tutorial.htm

Here is an alphabetized index of Irfanview Help files

And here are instructions for two of the most frequently asked Irfanview how-to's:

Quick/dirty directions for adding text to pics with Irfanview:

• Open the image in Irfanview.
• With your cursor, draw a box where you want text to appear on the image.
• Under Edit menu, select 'Add Text'
• To add text to image box that appears:
• Type your text in the box
• Click the Choose Font button and select options desired:
  Font, style, size, strikeout, underline and font color are the options.
• Click the OK button to return to the Add text box.
• Ensure the 'Text is transparent' block is checked.
• Click the OK button to add the text to your image.
• If you don't like the results and want to try again, click 'Undo' and start over.

Quick/dirty directions for doing a batch rename:

• From the File Menu:
• Select Batch Conversion/Rename
• Batch conversion pop-up:
• Where it says Look in:
• Select 3 1/2" Floppy (A:)
• Either select individual files you want to convert or click the Add all button to the left of the files window
• Under Output format:
• Ensure JPG-JPEG Files is selected
• Under Work as:
• Ensure Batch rename radio button is selected
• Under Output directory:
• Click the Browse button and find the directory on your hard drive where you want to save your renamed images, such as C:\My Pictures\
• Under Rename Options:
• Ensure Copy input files to output directory radio button is selected
• Change Namepattern### to desired name, such as eBayPics###
• Under Starting index:
• Ensure you change the number if you want to start at anything other than 1 (i.e., if you have already saved some pics as eBayPics###
• Under Input Files:
• Click the Start button.
• When complete, click the Exit button