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Resize images directly from your own site with reshade.com. Place a resizeit sticker to quickly and easily allow your visitors to use the reshade online image resizer.

Never worry about the size of the wallpapers on your site. Be assured that as long as the size of the original image is within decent limits (3x zoom) you will have all the standard wallpaper resolutions in a snap. Just add a link to the reshade resize page with the URL of the image you want resized and we do all the rest.

Resize your images from 1024×768 to 1600×1200 with no quality loss. This includes maintaining sharpness, focus, the original softness and all the necessary details that make for a great wallpaper. Get the most accurate resizing technology available today at this zoom range for free.

What’s in this for us you may ask. Except making your images available to a wider public we hope to increase the availability of our commercial product, thus making possible more improvements to our free service.

You can make a direct link from your site to the reshade resize-image page.

http://reshade.com/add?urlfromsite=<your image url>

How it works

You will place links on your site like the ones below:

1. use an image link

2. or text link
resize it

The first time someone clicks on the link, reshade.com will get the image from your site and cache it on our servers. This will happen only once. All future clicks will just display the reshade resize-image page for your image. Here anyone can resize, crop and enhance your image.

As an added bonus you get to display your images in our public gallery. All images have a link back to your home page.

How to get started

Start resizing your images from your own site in 3 easy steps:

• create a user account on reshade.com and set your home page correctly
• send us a notice stating that you would like to activate your site-level membership. Please include the user name you want to activate or the corresponding email address.
• after we activate your account you will receive a confirmation email and you’re ready to use the site-level membership

Every image you add to reshade.com this way appears in your “my pictures” collection when logged in.

The code

How it looks

How it’s done
Place the following text under your images and change the URL to point to your own images:

<a href=”http://reshade.com” onclick=”location.href=’http://reshade.com/add?urlfromsite=’ + encodeURIComponent(’http://reshade.com/picture/medium/50161277.jpg‘); return false;”>
<img src=”http://reshade.com/static/images/resizeit.gif” />
</a>

Your image URL is added to after the “urlfromsite=” parameter (bold text). You can use anything else in place of the <img [..]> (the part in italics). You can even use the image thumbnail to link to the corresponding reshade resize-image page.

See reshade site membership in action here: subpic.com or go directly to this page showing a quick example.

Latest changes to the online application:

Gallery

• image size and number of votes are always visible: on some systems there was a lag when scrolling the window because of the javascript events
• larger perspective on thumbnail auto-zoom: crops are made from the 600×600 px medium sized image

Image resize page

• changed placement for gallery types (my / hot / new / top)
• options that require login are more clearly highlighted
• images have been split into three types:
  • those below 800×600px
    • higher zooms (up to 6x) are allowed
    • have a better quality when resized
  • those with more than 4 up votes
    • better quality
    • because sharpening or smoothing are resource intensive it is disabled
  • the rest
• collections can be modified by anyone now
• changed placement of image title and author
• related pictures from the same author are displayed below each image when available
• more detailed “how to use” section
• delete/undelete image without opening a new page
• new smoothing method (smooth 1x) that removes artifacts better
  • it still has a minor problem on some images, a visible halo around the edges, but this will get fixed
• display current zoom level for each image/crop selection
• fixed bug with the crop tool: it displayed weird vertical lines
• fixed bug with sharpening: it is stronger for very low zoom levels

Add new image page

• option to set the image public/private automatically after uploading
• do not allow re-posting images that are already on reshade.com
• some jpeg files are not displayed correctly in some browsers so a conversion to friendlier formats is done now

There may be other changes that I did not mention here. If you have any suggestions, please take a minute to comment.

Changes since version 1.3:

• speed optimizations including support for SSE instruction set of modern desktop CPUs (Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon XP or newer)
  • speed improvements range from 30% to over 100% (depending on image size)
• Reshade can now also shrink images: zoom factors smaller than 1 are allowed
  • sharpening (texture) and smoothing also work when down-scaling an image
• go to save folder check box (in save dialog): automatically open an explorer window to the folder you are saving an image to when resizing finishes
• pop-up full file path in status-bar
• more accurate prediction for completion time in the save progress dialog
• better placement for best colors, renamed to best edges (more suitable)
• fixed: save image while refreshing hasn’t finished yet
• fixed: watermark notice on very small images crashed the program sometimes

Changes:

• fixed bug with thumbnail zoom images overlapping each other
• changed to smaller thumbnails so that more images fit on 1024 px wide screens
• fixed bug on gallery page when using Opera internet browser
• updates to details page (where you get to select the resize resolution)
  • resized it to fit on 800 px wide screens
  • added zoom ratio on the image details page to better grasp the level of resizing made
  • changed the way smaller images are placed on the details page
  • changed where quick info is placed on details page; wider container to make it easier to follow the text
  • changed how cropping works when original zoom is selected in the resolution drop-down: now it crops the selection and not just return the original
  • fixed problem when selecting crop for the first time: constrain is automatically visible, the crop box is centered on the image
  • fixed bug with crop tool: sometimes it displayed vertical lines at box margins
• resizes are processed more than twice (sometimes even 3 times) as fast since the last update
• some changes have been made to the smoothing method; the resulting images look less smudged now

There has been a network outage recently. Our service providers are upgrading their hardware, and some packet loss was experienced. Hope you didn’t have to wait long for the site to get back up and running.

Fixed a few problems with the site interface:

• smaller images center correctly when using quick preview
• thumbs that are small enough to fit the preview do not have a quick view icon ()
• only allowed resolutions (below 3x zoom) are enabled on the resize page (adjusted dynamically as you select the crop region)
• better “hot” ranking, combines novelty (how old the image is on the site) and votes with a new method
• make images on gallery pages float centered when resizing the browser window

Changes in this version:

• interface updates
  • more detailed descriptions for the main settings
  • tool-tips for the status bar
  • changed default settings
• adjustable image panes
• added quality setting
  • allows better quality resizes
  • noticeable especially at zooms lower than 5x
• added automatic update notifications
• better working defaults for
  • accuracy
  • threshold
  • quality

Finally, we’ve synced a version of the client algorithm to the one on the site. It works a little faster and has the best accuracy until now for sharpness estimation. Stretching also works nicely, faster than before.

We had some problems yesterday with the increased traffic. Users had to wait a little longer for their resizes. Also, the server crashed several times, but didn’t cause too much downtime. Because of this we had to change the algorithm to a faster but lower quality version. Don’t worry, we’ve changed it back a few minutes ago to the better and faster one. More work in this direction should make it even faster. Hope it won’t lag that much now. Enjoy!

Changes since last version (1.2):

• handle tiff/ico/cur formats correctly
• adjustable application window size (can be maximized)
• direct link to online guide
• detailed information on how saving an image takes place
• added support for tga (reading) and pnm formats
• fix: application would terminate suddenly when saving very large images
• fix: refresh problem when shrinking images back to a lower resolution (with width/height)

A more complete help section has been added for Reshade Client. It contains information on how to install and get started with the application.The main options for image enlargement are presented. The effects they have on the resulting picture are individually described.