Resizing images for any purpose can be a chore. If you are putting together a web site and need to ensure that all of your images have the same dimensions, it can take time to load each picture into an image editor and apply the relevant settings. Some image editors…

OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source editor with many powerful features. The program’s use of FFmpeg means it’s able to properly handle many different video, audio and image formats. There’s drag and drop support for importing clips, resizing and repositioning them on the program’s multi-track timeline. Right-clicking a selected clip gives…

One of the great benefits of working with digital music files is that metadata makes it possible to perform advanced searches, as well as benefiting from high quality audio. But being able to do this is dependent on having the correct information attached to files so that it can be…

Gone are the days when you’d have to pay a pretty penny for a decent sound editing and mixing application. For the best part of a decade, Audacity has carved a niche for itself as a powerful, yet usable tool for sound editing. It’s capable of recording live audio, digitising…

XnConvert is a free, cross-platform, batch image converter that makes light work of converting and editing large numbers of image files in one fell swoop. With support for more than 400 image formats, and versions available for Windows, Mac and Linux, this is one of the most flexible and powerful…

Imagine the scenario: you’ve got dozens of photos scattered across your hard drive, all in a variety of sizes and file formats. You want to place them all in the same folder, in the same format and perhaps even rename them for good measure. Perhaps they all need to be…