In discussing the hidden features of Mac OS X’s Preview utility, Mac blog Mac OS X Tips has put together a nice little tutorial on resizing batches of photos with Automator and Preview. The method described in the article is the exact same method I have always used in order to scale and resize multiple image files. The time-saving potential of Automator is fantastic, and this example puts it to use well. Whether you have 5, 50, or 500 images waiting to be resized for e-mail or the web, this Automator workflow will take care of the job in mere seconds.
Quickly Resize Batches of Photos with OS X and Automator
August 19th, 2007
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August 19th, 2007
Mac Tip: Batch Resize Images Without Extra Software · TechBlogger says:
[...] You can batch resize images in Mac OS X without installing third party software. The Mac OS X Tips weblog shows how you can use Automator and Preview to batch resize any group of images. After you’ve created the Automator script, all you need to do is drag and drop the images onto the icon and they will be instantly resized. The article even introduces a few other image editing tweaks you can perform like cropping, padding, printing, rotating and scaling. Batch resizing images is a snap in Photoshop, but if you don’t need the horsepower of Photoshop, this method will produce the same results. Access hidden Preview features through Automator [Mac OS X Tips via Of Zen and Computing] [...]
August 19th, 2007
Techzi » Blog Archive » Mac Tip: Batch Resize Images Without Extra Software says:
[...] You can batch resize images in Mac OS X without installing third party software. The Mac OS X Tips weblog shows how you can use Automator and Preview to batch resize any group of images. After you’ve created the Automator script, all you need to do is drag and drop the images onto the icon and they will be instantly resized. The article even introduces a few other image editing tweaks you can perform like cropping, padding, printing, rotating and scaling. Batch resizing images is a snap in Photoshop, but if you don’t need the horsepower of Photoshop, this method will produce the same results. Access hidden Preview features through Automator [Mac OS X Tips via Of Zen and Computing] [...]
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