Reducing pictures sizes?

[illegalprelude]

whats a good and easy program to reduce picture sizes or change their sizes and such.

I either use MS Paint on my PC if i just wanna drop the picture quality so i can send the file via AIM or just post a quick link. Or I use Paint Shop Pro to actually change the picture size to like 1024 by 768 or so.

But on the Mac, whats good and free?

 

[robbieduncan]

iPhoto? You can choose the size when you export a picture.

 

[illegalprelude]

iPhoto? You can choose the size when you export a picture.

Holy Bat-Dar! I had no idea! Thanks for that. Is there anyway i can compress the image file further? For example my 5.1 mega-pixel camera takes pics at roughly 2.3MB per picture. When I export via 800 x 600, their abot 250kb (not bad) but for what i want and could do just via MS Paint on my pc, it would drop it to like 60k. Huge image hit but for my needs, it didnt matter one bit.

 

[robbieduncan]

I'm not sure. You could try Preview with the reduced size images and use Save As and see if you can turn down the quality of the JPEG. I'm not on a Mac right now so I can't check if it's an available option...

 

[gauchogolfer]

I use iPhoto to reduce the image size (number of pixels) and then Preview to reduce the jpeg quality if necessary. Works fine.

 

[illegalprelude]

I'm not sure. You could try Preview with the reduced size images and use Save As and see if you can turn down the quality of the JPEG. I'm not on a Mac right now so I can't check if it's an available option...

did not know i could do that either. Thank you very much. so i just learned 2 new things i can do with iPhoto and Preview. That pretty much solved my problem

 

[steelfist]

there's a good program called: smallimage, or something like that. search it on versiontracker.

 

[FadeToBlack]

To resize images, I use GraphicConverter. Works great.

 

[Lixivial]

Another option to consider is an Automator workflow. You can save it as a folder action and, upon attaching it to a designated folder, any time you want to resize a file you'd simply drag it into that folder.

There's also this pre-defined one:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/resizepicturessuite.html

EDIT: I do this to convert files to JPEGs and create thumbnails, but I'm not on my Macintosh right now so I don't have the Automator library in front of me.

 

[slackersonly]

Another option to consider is an Automator workflow. You can save it as a folder action and, upon attaching it to a designated folder, any time you want to resize a file you'd simply drag it into that folder.

There's also this pre-defined one:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/resizepicturessuite.html

EDIT: I do this to convert files to JPEGs and create thumbnails, but I'm not on my Macintosh right now so I don't have the Automator library in front of me.

Thanks. Great tip. I have been doing this manually through iPhoto export and griping about it to myself each time.