Monday, March 11, 2013

Batch Resize Images [Mac OS X]

There are several Mac applications available to help you batch resize images. But a very powerful ones exists right within Mac OS X. All you need to do is a little setup and you are good to go.

Setup

Download this file (ResizeImages.zip) and extract the contents.

Go to the extracted folder simply drag the "Resize Images" workflow file into the "Services" folder.


That's it. You are now ready to start resizing files at will.  I will show you how.

Usage

To batch resize multiple files at once, follow these instructions.

Find and select the files you want to batch resize.

Right click anywhere inside the selection.

Scroll down to "Services" and select the "Resize Images" option.


The "Resize Images" script has two options for resizing. You can resize to a specific width (by pixels), or to a specific percentage. I use the pixels option.


The value entered with be the width that the image is resized to. The Height is automatically calculated based on whatever width you input.  In the example above I am resizing the images to a width of 2048 pixels.

Click "Continue" and the images will be resized. Simple and easy.

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