Techiy

Tried: GIMP, Paint.NET. I admit, I am not in the graphics design business, and my needs for editing images are minimal.  Even though Paint in Windows 7 has improved tremendously from the previous versions, but it still does not fully support transparency. If you are looking for more advanced features such as handling of layers and transparency, but hate the rather long start-up and bulkiness of graphics manipulation softwares, you should try Paint.NET . You will be amazed by the small installer size (<4 MB) and the speed of starting up the software. Hint: I made Paint.NET my default program for editing images. Of course, this is based on my needs. I could not differentiate between Paint.NET and GIMP ; GIMP is another graphics manipulation software similar to Adobe Photoshop. (GIMP is free, of course.) Do tell me the difference if you are in the graphics business.

Windows XP has a PowerToy that is very useful to those who want to resize their pictures by just a right click. However, Vista miss it (again). Luckily, there is some one named Prish make a substitute with even more functions. Miss the right click and resize? The official link is gone since Windows Live Space is no longer available, you can download it at download.com now. (If you need the 64-bit version, just leave a comment here and I will post it up for you.) I also found out that there is a Vista clone for Image Resizer XP (usable for Windows 7 too.) Note: Prish Image Resizer offers more functionality than the vista clone, such as jpg quality selection and saves resized pictures into custom folder, and makes resizing job quicker with its  pre-defined jobs in the context menu. For the reasons stated in the note, I chose Prish Image Resizer. Edited 27 Apr 2011.