Advanced Options let us rename files from the Batch Convert tab, though not with as many options as the Batch Rename tab. Then choose a destination, output format, and other options and press Convert. A small, optional preview pane is nice but not really enough to distinguish between two very similar images, although that's not uncommon in tools of this sort. It has a familiar layout: Select photos, individually or in batches, on the left-hand tree view, and click 'Add' to add them to Photo Resizer's right-hand Input List. We like FastStone Photo Resizer's businesslike user interface, too.

Something else we like about FastStone Photo Resizer 3.2: it's freeware. We have a lot of experience with Plan B, so it was nice to see how easy Plan A was with help from this basic but effective tool. It's better than Plan B, which is to just forget about them and then spend hours finding, sorting, and converting them to post and share.

It has everything you need to take those huge folders of megabyte snapshots with cryptic names and, in one step, convert them all to JPEGS (or whatever), resize them to manageable dimensions, and rename them all, even sequentially (such as: RoadTripAug2012_1). It not only resizes and renames images quickly and with minimal fuss, but it also crops, rotates, adjusts, and edits your pictures, too, and even applies text and watermarks. FastStone Photo Resizer 3.2 makes quick work of batches of digital snapshots.

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