Scaling and cropping images on the cheap

#1 Macworld

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 12:30 PM

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#2 robt010101

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 12:46 PM

Let's not forget about Gimp http://www.gimp.org/
It's free.

#3 rei_vilo

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 01:10 PM

There's also the excellent ThumbsUp for resizing the pictures available at http://www.devon-tec...ducts/freeware.

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#4 DaleBottrell

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 01:36 PM

I use "ResizeMe". It's free and does several things. It's drag'n'drop of course, batch list with scale & resize, rotate or flip, crop, reflection, drop shadow, watermark, output format and rename. I've used it for several years now and it keeps getting better and better.

#5 nyalathotep

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 01:54 PM

I use an ancient freeware called Goldberg (I'm running Tiger on both my Macs so I'm not sure if it's ok on Snow Leopard).
I like it for quick re-sizing pics on stuff I'm selling.

#6 kevis

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 02:22 PM

How could anyone forget about longtime standard and well up to date "Graphic Converter"? It's shareware but always useable even without a donation to the developer.

#7 Chris Breen

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 02:25 PM

kevis, on 10 January 2011 - 02:22 PM, said:

How could anyone forget about longtime standard and well up to date "Graphic Converter"? It's shareware but always useable even without a donation to the developer.

Graphic Converter is a great tool. I think it's a bit of overkill for this kind of thing, but it can certainly do the job.

#8 WanderingCompass

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 02:25 PM

No need for external programs. Use Automator to create a couple of different Services. One for resizing. One for cropping. It's easy to figure out and can do a lot that you might need. If you do get some external programs, they might offer additional Automator actions for you to use and stack together.
So -- free, built-in, available in the Finder.

#9 loneyrw

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 02:26 PM

iPhoto - $14.99 in the Mac App Store.

#10 ChristianTParkeroscx

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 03:29 PM

of course, GraphicConverter (which came with my G4 desktop years ago) has the option of batch converting

#11 Macnutjohn

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 03:34 PM

"iPhoto - $14.99 in the Mac App Store."

As long as you are /can use Snow Leopard............

#12 Nyhthawk

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 03:40 PM

WanderingCompass, on 10 January 2011 - 02:25 PM, said:

For examples, tutorials, and free downloads of Mac OS X services, visit: macosxautomation.com

And for a free Mac OS X service for converting selected text to an image, visit: padilicious.com

And a couple of great image editors that ship with built-in Automator actions, and are available on the App Store are:

Acorn and Pixelmator

This post has been edited by Nyhthawk: 10 January 2011 - 03:43 PM