5 easy steps to create thumbnails using Irfanview

IrfanViewOn Windows, one of my favorite image-editors is IrfanView.  Among it’s features:

  • Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
  • Multi language support
  • Thumbnail / preview option
  • Paint option – to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
  • Toolbar skins option
  • Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
  • Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.

I mostly use it to create thumbnails of all images in a folder. Here’s how.

  1. In IrfanView, Press [b] and navigate to the folder containing your images
  2. Set your options in the Advanced Tab.  For instance, set it to create images with a longest side of 800 px.
  3. Set the naming pattern. $N is the current image name.
  4. Set the output folder to the desired folder. I always user the current Look-in directory and add a thumbs folder
  5. Add the images and hit Start Batch. Done!

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