Image Tool Editor's Review

'Image Tool' is a simple application that can resize or convert various types of image files.

The application's interface is quite simple. It gives you an area where you can load a file. This area also represents a preview area for the input file. The second area represents the preview area for the output file.

The resize engine gives you some predefined multipliers or you can manually enter either the Width or the Height dimensions in pixels. There isn't any option that disables the forced aspect ratio of the output file. Therefore, the output image always has the same aspect ratio as the original one.

The output can be done in several ways. You can place the image to the clipboard to be used by other applications, you can use the 'Save as' functionality, or the faster 'Save to Desktop' functionality.

It can save the images to several formats like JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, or BMP. The same formats are also supported as the input files. For example, I tried to provide a JPEG-2000 as source and the application rejected it. The input also has the support for the clipboard. Therefore, you can import images into this application that were placed onto the clipboard by other programs with image manipulation features.

Pluses: It resizes and converts images pretty easily and fast. It allows you to modify the DPI (Dot per Inch) of the image manually.

Drawbacks / flaws: The list of supported file types is a little bit short, but the most popular formats are supported. It also can't change the aspect ratio of the output file.

In conclusion: This application is good enough for minimal image manipulation activities, such as resizing and converting.

version reviewed: 1.4.1