[valerie1102]

Is there a software available that will let me reduce the size of a photo? I was trying to post a photo on an online journal type site and apparently my photo size was too big. They recommended downloading IrfanView but it seems that this program isnt compatible with a Mac.... ???.....

Any suggestions what I can use? Can I do this on iPhoto without ruining my pictures? Please help. Thanks in advance.

[SWFan]

iPhoto will do it. And there is Photoexpress

[chabig]

You can also do this in automator.

Chris

[HungrySeacow]

Originally Posted by chabig

You can also do this in automator.

Chris

I created a finder plugin for this task. When you right click on a photo or photos and select the plug-in it will create a folder on your desktop called scaled then ask you what size you want the photos. It will then copy the images to the new folder and resize them.

Check the new post at the bottom for an update

[mpancha]

if you have 10.4, here's a link to an automator action that might do the trick:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...workflows.html

[ghporter]

Try Dropic! My wife needed this functionality without a lot of bells and whistles, and Dropic! did exactly what she needed. Free too.

[valerie1102]

thanks for the suggestions everyone! I really appreciate it!

[valerie1102]

hungry seacow -- this might be a silly question, but im pretty new to the mac mouse. How do you right click on a one button mouse?

[valerie1102]

Originally Posted by ghporter

Try Dropic! My wife needed this functionality without a lot of bells and whistles, and Dropic! did exactly what she needed. Free too.

Dropic sounds really simple and possibly just what i need. However, there are a couple links for the download. Which one do i download? there are 3 links DroPic.sit DroPic.txt DroPic screenshot.

[wataru]

Originally Posted by valerie1102

hungry seacow -- this might be a silly question, but im pretty new to the mac mouse. How do you right click on a one button mouse?

Hold ctrl while clicking.

[neilw]

Originally Posted by valerie1102

hungry seacow -- this might be a silly question, but im pretty new to the mac mouse. How do you right click on a one button mouse?

On the Mac, holding down the control key while clicking the left (or only) mouse button is equivalent to right-clicking with a multi-button mouse.

Do you have a Mighty Mouse? If so, you can configure it to act as a multi-button mouse. Try opening System Preferences and then selecting "Keyboard and Mouse", and look there.

If you're accustomed to using multi-button mice on other systems (like Windows), you'd be well-advised to pick up a multi-button mouse for your Mac. Just about any standard USB mouse will work fine.

[doh! Wataru beat me by a whisker!]

[valerie1102]

thanks neilw & wataru. that was very helpful.

neilw -- i used to be a pc user and was used to the multi button mouse for a while, however when i switched to the mac, i love that theres only one button. it makes life easier. i dont think i will be switching to a multibutton mouse anytime soon. the tip on the ctrl+click is awesome though...... still gives me the power of multi button without the extra clutter.

[ghporter]

Dropic.sit is the program, .txt is a brief manual, and .screenshot is a screenshot of it in action. The latter two are very small, so why not download all three and dump the text and screenshot if you don't want them.

[kcmac]

You can also do this with mail and iPhoto. Select a picture in iPhoto. Click email. Select size. Drag the new file to a folder or wherever you want it.

[HungrySeacow]

Since I still get hits from my post above, I thought I would setup a page dedicated to the Automaor image actions I posted about. There are a total of three, one to rotate images, one to resize, and one to convert the images into a different image type.

Three handy Automator actions

[ixus_123]

Dont forget the GIMP

although this is like giving you a workshop when all you need is a spanner

GIMP - for Mac OS X

[HungrySeacow]

For editing images, I use Seashore, which is based on the GIMP!. It is great, stable, and Cocoa!

[zro]

Apple photo software - Mac picture editor, photo editor, image editor, graphics conversion

The JPEG save dialog, the folder browser (with batch processing), and AppleScript support make it tops for this sort of thing.

[Curiosity]

Graphic Converter can resize images, and so can ToyViewer. ToyViewer is free.