Save Time Resizing Images on Mac With a Quick Action

[MacRumors]

Resizing images in macOS is easily done in the Preview app, but if your daily workflow requires you to scale images to a specific size – for uploading to a blog, for example – then using an image resize Quick Action is a much faster way of getting the job done.

In this article, we'll show you how to use the Automator app to create a simple Quick Action that, once saved, will have you resizing images in just a couple of clicks, without even going near an image editing app. Keep reading to learn how it's done.

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[goodthymes]

Love these kind of articles on MR! 👍

 

[Jay Tee]

macOS Sequoia really stepped up with the Photos' Edit function. I use the Crop and Clean Up tools every day. They’re so good that I’ve even started scanning documents directly into Photos, skipping PDFs altogether.

 

[JosephAW]

Used to do this with Photoshop actions back in the day, you also have to program it whether the photo is portrait or landscape and make sure that the image is the right dimensions either way, I’m assuming this can do it as well.

 

[apples_arrogance]

Super useful - thanks for sharing.

 

[iGüey]

Great! Very useful info. Thank you MR! 👍🏻

 

[strayts]

Shout out to the Preview app. It's just fantastic.

 

[Dr McKay]

Used to do this with Photoshop actions back in the day, you also have to program it whether the photo is portrait or landscape and make sure that the image is the right dimensions either way, I’m assuming this can do it as well.

I loved watching all the windows closing rapidly like the end of a game of solitaire when you used it to batch convert images

 

[VulchR]

So... that's what Automator does. 🙃

 

[BabyBoii]

more content like this please!

 

[whelmedjedi]

this is the contents we would like to see. not kuo/gurman advertisements.

 

[neotint]

More recipes and playbooks like this, thanks. Great reminders. Btw are these saved to iCloud and part of one's account, or just part of current OS install and would need to be redone over and over with each machine? Is there way to save them for reimport use on other/new machines?

 

[Slix]

I've been using automations like this for years now, and I love it. Set up once, click a file and boom, it's cropped out the whitespace, or resized, or whatever else you want it to do.

 

[atonaldenim]

This is really helpful. I need to set one up for "Half Size JPEGs" for easier emailing of all those chunky Retina PNG screenshots I make.

 

[TechnoMonk]

Didn’t know about it. Very useful especially in iOS and iPad development with multiple image resolutions.

 

[Populus]

Articles like this are really useful but, we’ve had Shortcuts app on the Mac for several years already… why are we still relying on Automator? I’m just genuinely curious. What can Automator do that Shortcuts can’t?

 

[kinless]

Just commenting as a bookmark so I know to come back here and use this. I've needed it so often!

 

[Jay-Jacob]

Articles like this are really useful but, we’ve had Shortcuts app on the Mac for several years already… why are we still relying on Automator? I’m just genuinely curious. What can Automator do that Shortcuts can’t?

I don’t know what shortcuts can do since I have very limited experience with it but Automator does a LOT. It is very flexible app. I am glad Apple keep it around.

Someone else probably can answer this better.

 

[Hank001]

A bit saddened from seeing how few Mac users don't know what the Mac can do.

 

[Hank001]

This is really helpful. I need to set one up for "Half Size JPEGs" for easier emailing of all those chunky Retina PNG screenshots I make.

Why don't you simply use the stock mail app to take care of that?

 

[chars1ub0w]

Very useful. For example, 2048px is supposed to be best size to preserve quality for Facebook.

 

[Plutonius]

Nice tutorial. Thank you.

 

[ByteHawk]

you can also do this with shortcuts, here's what I use

 

[Madolan]

Great article and more of this. I used Actions for a time and it works well. Now I use Greg Benz excellent Web Sharp Pro as a Photoshop plugin. It has a lot of options including HDR display output. I believe it costs $29 and runs in Photoshop. Actions is free. For my business I find this a better option.

 

[840quadra]

I haven't been impressed with the output quality on my images so far.

Not looking to blow up pictures, but I often convert from HEIC to JPEG and want to reduce the size a bit. The loss of details is frustrating at times, especially if it is a work related iPhone image that I would like to still be able to read text from, but becomes muddy in the finished product.