Best (simple and easy) SW for jpg image reduction? + My 10.5.8 to 10.8.4 upgrade

[MitchJi]

Hi,

I think I might have set a record for upgrading from 10.5.8 to 10.8.4, and migrating from Eudora to Apple Mail (a miserable experience) to Powermail (a lot of minor warts but overall it's decent or even nice). Over 60 hours.

One feature I really like in Mail is dragging a picture to attach to an email and being able to change the size in the pulldown menu. I considered using my copy of Mail for image reduction.

Is there a dedicated program for image reduction that is comparable in ease of use? Ideally I'd be able to drag and drop an image on the program, choose a size with a radio button or from a pulldown menu, enter a file name and hit return.

My 10.5.8 to 10.8.4 upgrade:
The Good:
EudoraMailboxCleaner
Migration assistant and the 10.8 installation.

The bad (short version):
10.8 invisible Library folder.

Enter the following command at the Terminal prompt:
chflags nohidden ~/Library

Getting a second copy of the 10.8 installer. Deleting the original without notification was bad enough but having to use google to find out that I needed to install a temporary account with admin privileges to download another copy was a totally unnecesarry PITA.

Speaking of unnecesarry PITA's what happened to the arrow's on the scroll bars? Is there a hack to get them back?

Thanks!

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[MitchJi]

Hi,

MitchJi wrote:
One feature I really like in Mail is dragging a picture to attach to an email and being able to change the size in the pulldown menu. I considered using my copy of Mail for image reduction.

Is there a dedicated program for image reduction that is comparable in ease of use? Ideally I'd be able to drag and drop an image on the program, choose a size with a radio button or from a pulldown menu, enter a file name and hit return.

Found what I want:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1052776/jpegresize.html

macworld wrote:
The first is KStudio’s Resize 1.4.2. It worked flawlessly in my testing. Drag a folder of images onto Resize’s icon in the Dock or Finder (or into its window if the application is already running), and a dialog pops up with options for resizing the images in that folder. You choose the size and proportionality of the resize action—in my case, I set the Size value to “200” with the option for “Biggest,” meaning the longest side, chosen. (One other unique feature here is that you can choose the desired height and width—many apps let you choose only one or the other.) You can also choose the quality of the resulting JPEG images; to increase the size of smaller images to fit your preferred image size; and to reformat image names to remove spaces and special characters (or even to use “8.3” DOS file names). Resize creates a new folder, at the same level as the source folder, containing the altered images, which are in JPEG format regardless of the input format.

You can get it here:
http://kstudio.net/dl/ResizeMac.zip


Thanks!

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[DP]

Welcome, Mitch. There is a lot of talk on this forum about Lion and Mountain Lion... Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I'm on 10.6.8 and plan on being there for awhile. But I did want to welcome a new forumite!
I believe you can add back the scroll bars in Preferences...

[Marc Anthony]

Hi. You can change image size and quality fairly easily with Image Events and Applescript, which are already on your Mac.

[hal]

Preview is pretty easy...

[h linamen]

DP wrote:
Welcome, Mitch. There is a lot of talk on this forum about Lion and Mountain Lion... Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I'm on 10.6.8 and plan on being there for awhile. But I did want to welcome a new forumite!
I believe you can add back the scroll bars in Preferences...

I'm with you on this DP!

[sekker]

DP wrote:
Welcome, Mitch. There is a lot of talk on this forum about Lion and Mountain Lion... Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I'm on 10.6.8 and plan on being there for awhile. But I did want to welcome a new forumite!
I believe you can add back the scroll bars in Preferences...

Count me as one that has learned to appreciate ML since upgrading from SL.

Most of the UI tweaks have options to turn them off. I'd give them a try a bit; then turn off what you find especially annoying. I was surprised at how much of the new features I liked after trying.

[sekker]

And welcome!

EDIT: regulars, too!

[Paul F.]

Umm... With you guys on the liking 10.6.8 better...

But;
Posted by: MitchJi [PM] [Ignore this user]• Registered: 7 years ago • Posts: 291

He's been around a while.
Happy to have him posting, of course...

[mattkime]

While I agree with all the complaints about scrollbars, in practice i don't have a problem. try it for a bit and see if it works.