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What's the fastest way to resize pictures?

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NewSc2

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In Windows, I'd open up Paint and reduce the image by 33%, 50%, 66%, etc., then Ctrl-S and exit.

What about for OSX? I have a bunch of images off of my digital camera that I don't need to be 3MP. 800x600 should be good enough.
 
NewSc2 said:
In Windows, I'd open up Paint and reduce the image by 33%, 50%, 66%, etc., then Ctrl-S and exit.

What about for OSX? I have a bunch of images off of my digital camera that I don't need to be 3MP. 800x600 should be good enough.
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Preview can handle this task. It's found in your Applications folder. If you have a whole bunch of pictures all in one folder, you could even write an Automator action that automates this task for you.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
Preview can handle this task. It's found in your Applications folder. If you have a whole bunch of pictures all in one folder, you could even write an Automator action that automates this task for you.
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Um, I can open them up with Preview, but I want to save them as smaller files for e-mail and uploading.
 
NewSc2 said:
Um, I can open them up with Preview, but I want to save them as smaller files for e-mail and uploading.
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For e-mails the Mail.app will resize pictures for you.

Simply 'attach' your pictures and select the size you want from the options in the drop-down menu at the bottom of the window.
 

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Quicksilver!

Make sure you've got the image manipulation plugin. Eg downsizing to 800x600:

Invoke QS
Select picture, TAB
Type 'scale', TAB, and type '800'

Takes about 2 seconds.

Or if you you scale pictures a lot then set up a trigger. I put a hot corner on my girlfriend's account so she can just drag pictures to the corner and it resizes them. Or you could do a hot key.
 
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