Image resizer Mac

Amba_Gambla

I've been a lifelong windows-er until recently, and love the image resizing powertoy for windows, but can't find a decent, free alternative for my mac.

I've tried one (Rapidoresizer) but tbh it's a bit crap, and the output quality is rubbish. I mainly need to resize them to put on facebook, and to email them to friends. Does anyone know of a decent available freebie please?

isofa

Many good free OS X image tools listed here: http://web.mac.com/simon_elliott/simon_elliott%40mac.com/Software.html
and here:
http://www.opensourcemac.org/

SeeShore and Xee are two well known ones, but I've not used them, I'm strictly a Photoshop person

Plus GraphicConverter is one of the most popular, but I think it's trial/shareware not free. Excellent application though.

isofa

PS did you not get the iLife Suite (including iPhoto) with your Mac? It has come with most OS X systems for many years, but can also be purchased. iPhoto has photo editing facilities...

Amba_Gambla

I have psp and photchop, but want a quick 1 or 2 click resizer that can deal with lots of photos at once. I do have iphoto, but can't find out how to quickly resize a bunch.....

isofa

Photoshop can deal with one or hundreds at once, applying pretty much any sort of command you want to the images, be it resizing, or a complex set of layer commands and filters, search the help for Actions.

However iPhoto can do batches, see here: http://lifehacker.com/software/digital-photos/ask-lifehacker--batch-resize-photos-part-ii-37951.php

It is very easy: In iPhoto, select your photos and from the File menu choose Export. On the File Export tab, under Size, set the width and height under "Scale images no larger than" and then click Export. Choose a folder for your resized exported photos and you're golden.

Else Graphic Converter is your best bet.

Bob63

Another vote for iPhoto's export function if you are doing a lot of pics. If you don't have the pic in iPhoto, or just want quick & dirty resize for a single photo then simply load the image in Preview (a standard Mac OS app) and click Tools --> Adjust Size

M4RKM

you could google things for an apple script that will automatically do resizes... once when i was working on a website, i had a script, where i just dropped the image onto, and i resized it to 800x600.... didn't even have to open any software....

moomintroll_3

For quick resizes I use ImageWell. It does a lot more than just resizing though...