[markw10]

I recently put up an e-commerce site and as part of entering products I can input images in 3 sizes.
1. 100 x 80 which is used for photos put on the main page of the website to be clicked on for further information

2. 200 x 250 to be used for the image in the actual product description

3. 300 x 400 to be used as a larger photo as a pop-up picture if someone wants to see a larger picture.

The pictures can vary in size but unless the variation is small the pictures will all very in size on the main page of my website which will give it a bad appearance.

Unfortunately when I get stock photos many vary in size. I want to know if there's an easy way to resize pictures. The only concerns I have is that making them larger may make them appear stretched or making them smaller may give the opposite appearance. Also, since I am doing this to many pictures I want a solution that is quick and easy, maybe as simple as taking a picture, choosing a new size, and saving it with the change.

I currently have the Adobe Creative Suite 3 with PhotoShop, Illustrator, and Fireworks but am not sure if this does it in an easy way and of course I prefer to use Mac over Windows. Any suggestions of a good and easy way to do this?

[ghporter]

DroPic is free and will shrink pictures quickly and simply. But so will Preview; go to "Tools -> Adjust Size"

[markw10]

Thanks. I'll look at DroPic. I didn't realize Preview does it so since it does maybe there is no need for another program. My only concern is if the picture is change more than just a little in size I'm sure it'll appear stretched or shrunk but most of the time hopefully changes in size will only be minor.

[TETENAL]

This is an ideal task for Automator.

http://mymacbuzz.com/2006/10/15/righ...with-automator

(unlike the author of that article I think you should have a copy action inside this workflow - you're choice though).

[ghporter]

Preview doesn't "shrink or stretch" images, it rescales them. There's no change in aspect ratio if you don't want it to be changed. It works great even on major resizes; I've taken HUGE pictures from a 10megapixel camera and shrunk them to fit a 320X240 space without any distortion.

[markw10]

I've tried it on Preview and it works great. I'm going to also look into automater though so maybe I can set it up for the specific sizes that I want.