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30 July 2010

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There has to be an easier way. I just got a Mac and can't figure out how to resize a photo without doing the Export thing. I have iphoto and picasa, and with both, I can't just frigging resize the photo while editing it, I have to finish editing it, export it, and assign a size. That would be fine if I were only resizing one or two photos but I'm doing 100-200 at a time, and I want to resize each individually. Some are portrait and some are landscape, some have to be 1000 pixels wide and some have to be something else. Please tell me there's some free, easy to learn, unbloaty app out there that works like Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop so I can resize my photos?

post by: iconomy at: 20:31 | 9 comments

Graphic Converter is a good simple editor with batch processing options. Its shareware but it just puts up a timed splash screen before running and doesn't harass you beyond that or place any limits on its features.

posted by kodama 30 July | 20:43

Thanks, kodama, I'll check it out right now. I want the opposite of batch editing though...I want to be able to easily and quickly edit each photo individually. Like.....open the photo, crop it, brighten it, resize it, save it....bing bam boom! Done.

posted by iconomy 30 July | 20:48

Ooh it looks like it does what I want! Going to download it and try it out.

posted by iconomy 30 July | 20:52

There's always GIMP.

posted by Obscure Reference 30 July | 21:14

Why does GraphicConverter resize itself every time when I zoom? Oh I really want to break things right now.

Will check out GIMP. I think I might just use my pc for photo editing if this isn't what I want. Thanks, OR.

posted by iconomy 30 July | 21:22

Have you tried the plain old built-in Preview? It should be able to do all this:
Tools > Crop (after drag-selecting a rectangle)
Tools > Adjust Size
Tools > Adjust Color

A Finder shortcut that might help you is COMMAND + DOWN ARROW which is like double-clicking a file. (Or open file from a commandline). Useful for opening an image in preview when you are browsing a big folder of them.

You can't do any fancier stuff, but Preview launches faster and doesn't have GIMP's godawful UI, so I use it a bit.

posted by fleacircus 30 July | 21:38

No, I never tried Preview, because I didn't know it existed until right now. It's PERFECT.

Thank you! I just got this (my first Mac) 4 days ago, there are a lot of things I haven't found yet, I guess ;)

posted by iconomy 30 July | 21:52

A couple other Finder shortcuts you might like when browsing through folders are COMMAND+UP ARROW that will go up a directory, and just SPACE which opens/closes a little quick preview window.

There's also some good AskMe threads on shortcuts, I think this is one. Enjoy! :)

posted by fleacircus 30 July | 22:02

Do try GIMP; unless you're installing photoshop soon it's going to come in handy

posted by Firas 31 July | 11:42

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