ReaSoft’s ReaConverter Pro v3.5
Software Review by Rip YarnallHow many graphics file extensions can you name off the top of your head?
What have you heard besides JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF and maybe WMF and PCX?
I could only come up with five of those six without looking them up.
ReaConverter Pro allegedly supports more than 340 graphics file formats. It not only converts batches of graphics files from one format to another, it can resize, frame and shadow them as well.Let’s say you have a bunch (or batch) of digital pictures of different sizes and formats and you want to put them in a slide show or another suitable presentation to e-mail to friends and family or even potential customers. You can use ReaConverter Pro to make all the selected photos the same digital format (i.e. JPEG for e-mailing) and the same size. While you’re at it you can give each picture a nice border and a bit of a drop shadow at the same time you are sizing them.
ReaConverter Pro will also do the regular editing of your images: crop, rotate and mirror images and modify brightness, contrast and gamma as well as sharpen, smooth and blur images. These last adjustments are pretty much applicable to individual images. Short of a near-catastrophic camera failure I cannot see any benefit to making identical corrections of those natures to a multitude of images.
The whole process is straightforward and reasonably intuitive. In a nutshell, you use the application’s tabbed pages to select the images you want regimented, choose the modifications you want to be made to each image and let it rip. Be careful, however, to give the finished images a different name or location if you don’t want to overwrite your originals.
After you have selected your images, choose one of them for a sample. Your modifications can be tested on this sample before you apply them to the whole batch. Each modification you select becomes a line in a script, which can be saved and reloaded as needed for future transformation of more images into the same regimentation for the same or similar projects. Following two or three practice sessions I was able to easily convert a dozen images to the same size and format and place a blue frame around each for a presentation. This application is convenient to use and a great time saver in preparing multiple images for viewing.
It’s easy enough to try. ReaConverter Pro can be downloaded free from the above web sites and is fully operational except that it will only accommodate five images at a time until you spring for the purchase of a full activation code.
A lot more information, including a virtual tour, is also available at the ReaSoft web sites.
System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
At least 16MB RAM - At least Pentium 90 MHz processorReaConverter Pro v3.
Personal License $34.95
Business License $79.95
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