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While resizing all my images, photos and wallpapers, I came into this great trick to easily batch resize images that I've never read somewhere else before; You can simply use Preview to batch resize images.
Wanna know more?
You will be surprise of how simple this batch resizing trick is; You only need four simple steps to do it:
- Highlight all images and Open them in Preview
- Inside Preview, select all images that you want to batch resize
- Choose Preview: Tools ▸ Adjust Size... followed by entering value for common width/height
- And for the finishing move, choose Preview: File ▸ Save All or keystrokes Command-Option-S will do
You can go to your Finder and check whether all images are resized correctly; I guarantee this batch resize images trick works fine in Leopard.
Unfortunate for Batch Resizer Applications out there, Preview has outsmarted their applications. But well, maybe Windows users still need those batch resizer applications, just my wild guess.
12 COMMENTS (RSS)
Stolencheese
June 11th, 2008 Time: 04:05 AM
Wow! I did NOT know that, Thanks alot! I love this site :D
PJ
June 11th, 2008 Time: 04:10 AM
That is such a handy tip! Preview has so many hidden treasures beneath its simple looks.
Dylan B
June 11th, 2008 Time: 04:19 AM
Thanks!
Name101
June 11th, 2008 Time: 05:17 AM
Wow Thank you :D
David
June 11th, 2008 Time: 07:34 PM
you do the same thing with automator/applescript in less steps
bernie Anderson
June 12th, 2008 Time: 03:55 PM
That's sweetness. Didn't know you could do that either. Thanks!
alanzed
June 19th, 2008 Time: 09:00 AM
in windows you can simply download the "batch resize plugin" from microsoft website and magically it will appear in every context menu
Montathar Faraon
June 29th, 2008 Time: 02:26 PM
You just saved me 2 hours of work, god I love my mac! :)
Jessie
July 19th, 2008 Time: 06:07 PM
Thank you so, so much. It's exactly what I was looking for! Preview is really much more powerful than it looks. I'm adding your RSS feed onto apple mail!
alianabee
August 22nd, 2008 Time: 01:46 PM
very very helpful tip.. thank you very much :)
spk
September 27th, 2008 Time: 01:45 AM
thanks for the tip. served me well indeed :)
Bert Mullemeister
October 9th, 2008 Time: 09:55 PM
Thanks heaps! I am a newbie to IMac and in windows I used IrfanView to do this. Much easier on the Mac with Preview
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