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kcmac · Jul 30, 2005, 09:49 PM

Someone using a Panther please help me out. I think I used to do this but now am not sure. I am using Tiger dot 2.

To batch reduce pictures in iPhoto click on the email button. This will ask you what size you want to make them. Pick a size. This sends them to Mail.

Now you have all of the pictures. Drag these or copy/paste them to a folder. They show up as text clippings.

Didn't these used to show up as jpegs? Or something usuable?

Randman · Jul 31, 2005, 12:39 AM

If you have Tiger, you can size individual photos directly from the Mail app.

If you are going to send a batch, I'd suggest extracting the photos you want from iphoto (so the originals remain in iPhoto), then use Automator to size the images down (it's a preset workflow) and send those. Maybe even zip them before sending.

kcmac · Jul 31, 2005, 04:23 PM

Okay. I figured it out.

I wasn't trying to send smaller pictures via email. I was using Mail to reduce the picture sizes for me so that I could use them in a document I am making. Kind of a neat short cut in itself.

In iPhoto, select the pictures you want and click on the email button. This attaches them to a new email at the size selected.

I thought at this point, I just used to drag these to the folder I wanted via Exposé. These show up as text clippings in Tiger.

Instead, select all of the attachments now in the email message and then save them by right clicking to the location you want. Now the file sizes have been reduced and easier to use. Pretty easy but I think I got used to doing it another way back in Panther.

Randman. I still haven't done too much digging into Automator yet. The little I have tried I just get confused with where these workflows actually show up when I need them. Even more basic, I have to learn how to build workflows.

Anyone know how to set up a workflow for reducing iPhoto picture files while working in iPhoto instead of doing my little email trick?

TETENAL · Jul 31, 2005, 04:30 PM

Why don't you just select "Export" in iPhoto and save at reduced size directly?

kcmac · Jul 31, 2005, 04:45 PM

Smacking my forehead! Much easier.

It never amazes me. Learn something new everyday.

Thanks Tetanel. I am pretty used to using "Export" in Pages and that would be found in the File menu. Some reason I didn't think of going to the Sharing menu. Guess I got used to doing a workaround.

Randman · Jul 31, 2005, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by kcmac

Anyone know how to set up a workflow for reducing iPhoto picture files while working in iPhoto instead of doing my little email trick?

As I said earlier, that's one of the pre-iinstalled workflows.

Anyway, check out mac/101 at apple.com. It has tutorials, one of them is on creating a workflow describing exactly what you want to do.

Randman · Jul 31, 2005, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Why don't you just select "Export" in iPhoto and save at reduced size directly?

For one photo or even two, that works. But for a number of photos, it's better to have the system change them. Over the weekend I downsized a folder containing about 75 images from my camera. The Automator workflow took less than 30 seconds PLUS it renamed them as well (for that, I merged two workflows to make a new one).