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Hi all, hope well. You guys being in this field, I thought I'd get some thoughts from you.

I need and app that can take an image of pretty much any format, (must be able to process/open the following);
.ico
.icns
.svr
.png
.bmp

I'd like to be able to do something as simple as open for example a 1920x1080.png screenshot image and have the app ask me what format then what size, (for example 800x600), format it is to be converted to etc etc.

Any thoughts/ideas?

Cheers.
 
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.svr? Isn't that a 3D format? No image editor will open that. Or do you mean .svg?

All of those can be opened and edited in PhotoLine (but not .svr, of course).
 
.svr? Isn't that a 3D format? No image editor will open that. Or do you mean .svg?

All of those can be opened and edited in PhotoLine (but not .svr, of course).
Sorry, yes. Temporary memory lapse.
I'll give photoline look - thanlkyou.
 
If you are looking for a nearly complete professional experience, I'd suggest you give affinity designer a try, similar to indesign and illustrator for a flat fee.
 
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If you are looking for a nearly complete professional experience, I'd suggest you give affinity designer a try, similar to indesign and illustrator for a flat fee.
Not specifically no, but funny you should say that I'd been checking that app periodilally and hadn't yet purchased due to lack of a DAM. I'll take another look see.
 
If you are looking for a nearly complete professional experience, I'd suggest you give affinity designer a try, similar to indesign and illustrator for a flat fee.
Designer is supposed to compete with Illustrator, Photo with Photoshop and Publisher with Indesign. Great apps for the price.
 
Designer is supposed to compete with Illustrator, Photo with Photoshop and Publisher with Indesign. Great apps for the price.
Thank you for the clarification, I don't use mine that often =). But it sure is nice to know that they are on my computer and not bleeding me slowly every month.
 
You can also do all this in the standard Preview app.
Yes, I saw a few new functionds in Preview. I tend to try and use other apps. After seeing how Preview does things to PDFs that mean it's not compatible with business standards I stopped using it so much, (even though it often gives better renders).
Also it's more limited than some other 3rd options.
 
Yes, I saw a few new functionds in Preview. I tend to try and use other apps. After seeing how Preview does things to PDFs that mean it's not compatible with business standards I stopped using it so much, (even though it often gives better renders).
Also it's more limited than some other 3rd options.
To be fair, this has been a feature of Preview for many years. Also graphics formats are a bit different than PDFs so it's not something to really be leery of here.
 
To be fair, this has been a feature of Preview for many years. Also graphics formats are a bit different than PDFs so it's not something to really be leery of here.
Yeah I get that, but I just want one thing that works.
 
There are several apps available that can do this, but here are a few of my recommendations:

XnConvert
Gimp
IrfanView
 
There are several apps available that can do this, but here are a few of my recommendations:

XnConvert
Gimp
IrfanView
I'll take a look at those too thankyou. Apart from Gimp. Not sure why but there's something about it I never liked.
 
I'd like to be able to do something as simple as open for example a 1920x1080.png screenshot image and have the app ask me what format then what size, (for example 800x600), format it is to be converted to etc etc.
The specific use case of opening .png, converting to a smaller size then exporting to (say) .jpg can be done with "Preview" which is already installed on your Mac. It might do everything you need.
 
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