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Majiastic Right Click Image Resizer/Toolset User Guide

Quick Menu

  1.  Framework Overview

  2.  Quick Start

    1. How to add an image watermark

    2. How to save your configuration to a profile and re-used in the future

  3. GUI Manual

    1. Main Sheet

    2. File Queue

    3. Image Splitter

    4. Image Resizer

    5. Watermark Maker

    6. Save Configuration

  4. Change Logs

  5. Screen Shots

1. Framework Overview

 

   

The framework of this toolset is designed as what's shown in the graph above. Splitting, Resizing and Adding watermark are independent phrases that a user can turn them off/on independently. When all three phrases are off, the toolset will work as copying the source images to the destination locations with JPEG quality modification only.  

 

2. Quick Start

 

2.1 How to add an image watermark

 

The following steps are about adding an image logo

  1. Launch the program. Click ¡°File Queue¡± page, Add the image files that you want to put logo on

  2. Click ¡°Watermark¡± page, check ¡°Enable watermark stamper¡±

  3. Click (insert image) button and select your logo image file, then open it

  4. At this moment, the logo will be placed at the left, top corner of each picture as what is shown in preview window. If you like to place at other location, you can adjust options in ¡°Watermark¡± page

  5. When you feel ready, you click ¡°Start¡± button at the bottom of the whole window

The output files are put in the IMAGE folders under the source directory by default, you can Go to ¡°Save¡± page to change to other location. If you don¡¯t want resize the picture, uncheck ¡°Enable resize¡± in ¡°Resize¡± page.

 

2.2 How to save your configuration to a profile and re-used in the future

 

The following steps are about saving a profile

  1. Launch the program and set all configurations as what you want

  2. Click "Save" page, Click "Save Profile As" button to save all configurations into an assigned file.

The following steps are about reusing a profile

  1. Launch the program and click "Load Profile" button at the left-bottom corner of the Main Sheet.

  2. Select the profile file you saved before and click "Open" button.

3. GUI Manual

3.1 Main Sheet

  • Context Menu in Windows Explorer

    • The most convenient way to select and resize many image files. It just resizes image files with a right click menu. Our installer can automatically add resize image option in right click context menu  in our Windows Explorer. It can resize multiple photos at once (batch process). So it is the easiest image resizing way ever. 

  • Buttons

Start button is the button to start resizing process. The order of the files processed is from the top one to the bottom one shown in the file list table.

Cancel button is the button to close the current dialog and return to Windows Explorer.

About button is the button to show the about dialog where to allow users to input and see registration information. And in the about dialog, there is a link to the home page of RCR.

Load Profile button is the button to load the saved configuration from a disk file.

3.2 File Queue

  • Format Support

Support JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF formats. RCR program always correctly detects the image format by reading the header of a file instead of judging by its extension name. RCR can automatically skip non-image files.

3.3 Image Splitter

  • Value

This option sets the value to define where is the cut line. It can be a number of pixels or a number of percentage. The value for the pixel must be larger than zero. If overflow or underflow for an inputted image, the splitter will set the value to the length of image or zero. The value range for the percentage is from 0 to 100.

  • Alignment

    • Toward Smaller Value means when Splitter considers an edge. The pixel is from 0 to n. 0 is the smaller value. n is the larger value. For example, we have an image with length 1000, so if we say 100 pixels toward smaller value, the cut line will be at 100. On the other side, 100 pixels toward larger value, the cut line will be at 900.

  • Direction

There are four options: vertically, horizontally, larger edge and shorter edge

3.4 Image Resizer

  • Image Size

Image size selection provides multiple options for the target image sizes. The first four options are pre-defined values. The middle one is the current screen resolution used by the host desktop. The last one is a dimension that user defines. The first value represents width and the second value after the star represents height. If you want the width/height ratio to be 16:9 like the ratio used for some HDTV, high definition digital camcorders and cameras, you just check the box(16:9) on the top.

  • Fitting Rule

Fitting Rule has three options:

Longer Edge means the longer edge between the width and the height of the source image is used to match the target image size. If the longer edge of the source image is the width, the final width of the output image will be value of the width of the selected. The final height will be calculated by the final width times the original height/width ratio of the source image. The final height may be larger than the height of the target image.

Shorter Edge means the shorter edge between the width and the height of the source image is used to match the target image size. If the shorter edge of the source image is the width, the final width of the output image will be value of the width of the selected. The final height will be calculated by the final width times the original height/width ratio of the source image. The final height may be larger than the height of the target image.

Both Edge can ensure both width and height of the resized image are with the values of the target width and the target height. The algorithm will test longer edge rule and then short edge rule to see which rule will make the requirement satisfied.

The following chart will visualize the different of three rules:

  • Zoom Mode

Under zoom mode, source images will be scaled with a ratio. Image size options and fitting options are not used. 100% means no change on the source image size. The scale ratio for width and the scale ratio for height can be defined in different values.

  • Rotate

Rotation can be in any degree. 0 degree means no rotation. An option can be selected to limit rotating only when height > width according to a source image.

3.5 Watermark Maker

  • Enable/Disable Watermark Stamper

Check "Enable Watermark Stamper" box will enable adding watermark. Uncheck will disable watermark stamper.

  • Toolbar Explanation

  • Coordinate

This option set the coordinate to compute the location of the left/top corner of a single watermark. For example, an image is 1000 * 1200 pixels where 1000 is the length, 1200 is the height. And offset x is 200, offset y is 100. If the coordinate is Left and Top, the location will be (200,100). if the coordinate is Left and Bottom, the location will be (200, 1100). If the coordinate is Right and Top, the location will be (800,100). if the coordinate is Right and Bottom, the location will be( 800,1100). If the coordinate is Random, the location will be within (0,0) to (800,1100) range.

  • Offset

Offset can be any value, even negative

  • Rotate

Rotation can be in any degree. 0 degree means no rotation.

  • Transparency

Watermark maker applies alpha blending between watermarks and the original picture. The transparency is from 0 to 100. 0 means no transparency.

  • Position

This option tells watermark maker if the single watermark shown in the designer window need to be tiled.

3.6 Save Configuration

  • JPEG Image Quality

This progress bar is to adjust the image quality of the output JPEG files. O is the worst quality and 100 is the highest quality. The worse quality leads the smaller file size.

  • Renaming Method

Add suffix will add suffix in format _<WIDTH>_<HEIGHT> as default in the output filename before the dot following the extension name. For example, a file named image.jpg will be renamed to image_320_240.jpg after resizing.

The keywords (Case-sensitive) that can be used in Suffix are

<WIDTH>      The output image width
<HEIGHT>    The output image height
<NO>             The number of files processed

  • Output Location

This selection will specify the output location. The output files will be created in the same directory where the source files locate or in the separate directory named resized under the directory where the source files locate,  or a folder picked by the user.

If the renaming method is not adding suffix and Same as the source directories is selected, the original files will be overwritten by the resized files.

4. Change Logs

[Ver 1.6.x] Watermark System is implemented. Splitter is added. Exe-version program is added. Many bugs have been fixed.
[Ver 1.5.x] Profile System has been implemented. A progress dialog is added for older machines. [32bit][64bit]

[Ver 1.4.x] Bugs fixed including freezing Explorer bug; New layout; Resize by File Size; Add file queue buttons and more flexible renaming methods.[32bit][64bit]

[Ver 1.3.x] Rotation and user defined suffix are supported. New resizing algorithm are used. [32bit][64bit]

[Ver 1.2.x] No Enlargement Options is added. Crop if overflow is added. Zoom Mode is added. Customized Destination can be specified. [32bit] [64bit]

[Ver 1.1.x] Installer bug has been fixed. Customized Image Size is added.

[Ver 1.0.x] Image Size has five fixed options with there fitting rules. Image Quality is adjustable. Rename Method can add suffix. Disk location has two options.

 

5. Screenshots

Context Menu in Windows Explorer

Image Splitter

Watermark Designer

Image Resizer 

Save Configuration

File Queue

 

 

 

  

 

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