If you need to shrink any photos to meet the pichacks 2MB file size limit, IrfanView might be just what you are looking for.

This simple, fast, and free image viewer and editor is a longtime favorite of everybody I know who works with pictures regularly, and with good reason. There are times when it’s not necessary to open a big program like Adobe Photoshop™. For quick edits like, resizing, rotating, cropping, color adjustments, jpg compression, batch conversions, etc. Irfanview is perfect.

IrfanView loads quickly and excels at all the tasks I mentioned. It’s not going to replace a major paint program, but why use a meat cleaver to cut a stick of butter?

It is also perfect for quickly saving screen captures. When I want to make an image of my screen’s contents, here’s how I do it:

Hit the “Print Scrn” button on you keyboard.

Open IrfanView – An empty black screen will appear

Hit Ctrl + V (Paste) – This creates a new image with your screen grab

Then, just save the image to your hard drive. Simple and useful. http://www.irfanview.com/