Right click image conversion with ReaConverter

ReaConverter Right click image conversion, a quick and easy accessable way to edit and convert your image files.

Much improved in ReaConverter 5.0, Right click image converison has become one of those features that make ReaConverter a great helping hand in the occasional and everyday need to perform various image conversion.

The Right click conversion feature is hiding in ReaConverter Standard and Pro under the name of Context Menu Integration.

Many people call it right click menu, less people know the phrase context menu, but practicaly all people use it. If you are not sure if you do, press your right mouse button to check it for yourself.

Windows context menu (or right click menu) is meant for getting some repitative tasks done faster, and represents a list of frequently used commands that vary depending on an object (file, folder, icon, etc) clicked with a right mouse button. Basically, the list of commands depends on what is being clicked. Hense the word 'context'.

Created to facilitate batch image conversion, ReaConverter integrates into Windows right-click menu, and gives an option to right click convert and edit any number of images with only two mouse clicks. Right-clicks!

How to convert images using right click menu and make the most of this feature?

The idea of right clicking an image and getting a number of useful conversion and editing operations might have already grasped the attention of current users of ReaConverter 4.0. We believe that with a revised 5.0 version, the time thas come to take most of this feature, as now it is possible to alter the default list of operations according to your needs.

Using default settings:

If you right click an image or a group of images, you will get two options offering a number of default convert operations:

Convert to (for changing the format of your images);
Convert with changes (for changing the format and applying actions).

With default settings you can right click convert your images to BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF. If you need to convert with actions, you can save to GIF or JPG formats and apply the following actions:

GIF + 50% resize;
JPG + blur;
JPG + rotate 90 degrees left;
JPG + rotate 90 degrees right;
JPG + sharpen.

Using your own settings:

You can edit the exisiting or add your own options in Context menu settings.

Note that depending on whether you have a Standard or Pro Edition, you can add only those write formats and actions that are supported by your edition.

'Convert to' vs 'Convert with actions':

If you just need to right click convert your images to some particular format, say PDF, press the '+' sign in the 'Conver to' part and select the format you need from the list that appears (in our case, PDF). You can also specify the format settings and additional settings just as you do at the last step of ReaConverter.

If your task is to right click convert and edit your image(s), it is the 'Convert with changes' option that should be applied. Here you can also edit the default and add new options.

As well as ReaConverter Scheduler, 'Convert with changes' works with ReaConverter configuration (.cfg) and action (.act) files. It should be remembered that configuration files transmit information on the output format and its settings, destination folder, additional settings, file options, file name modifications and conversion options (transparency color, loading settings, etc.). Action files take care of the actions you need to apply.

To add a new option, press the '+' sign and specify all the necessary settings in the window that appears: give your new option a name and browse for the prepared configuration and action files.