There’s nothing better than finding an app that simplifies a time-consuming task, especially if it’s a task you do every day. Ever needed to resize an entire folder full of pics? It’s a task that may haunt you, unless of course you’ve mastered batch editing using Photoshop — a technique I decided not to learn after a few friends on Twitter shared these:
Shrink O’Matic is a simple app for quickly batch resizing multiple files in seconds. By dragging files into the app’s UI or by picking a folder, multiple files will begin resizing simultaneously. As the name of the app suggests, it shrinks pics and doesn’t enlarge.
There are a few different preferences you can pre-set prior to dropping the images; output size (width & height), output name (auto rename/same as original), output format (the original’s format, JPG, GIF, PNG)
If you don’t specify an output folder, by default the images will be spit back to the folder where the original files sit. The advantage of using this app instead of your pro editor is time. You’ll have an entire folder of pics resized and spit back faster than Adobe Photoshop would even load on your Mac/PC.
The free app, available through the Adobe Marketplace, handles JPG’s, GIF’s and PNG’s and it works on Adobe AIR.
iResize is a freebie app for Mac for speedy image resizing. This app is exclusively for Mac and gives users the power to shrink or enlarge pics plus a handy JPEG compression tester for checking the quality of the image.
Similar to Shrink O’Matic, multiple images can be resized by drag & drop but iResize doesn’t immediately start resizing the images as soon as the files are dragged in, one of the drawbacks with Shrink O’Matic. With iResize users have the chance to play with the sizes, change the compression, rotate the file by 90 degrees or perform a JPEG compression test.
During the resize export process, the app gives the option to create a new folder and attaches a pre-set sequential numbering to the file name. iResizes saves files as JPEG, GIF, JPEG, PICT, PNG, TIFF or PSD files. And while there is an EXIF reader it doesn’t retain any data about the camera after exporting.
If you’re a Mac user, iResize would definitely be the better choice between the two. iResize has shaved off a lot of wasted time in my own process of importing and resizing images from different devices.
Hi everybosy, I have a Mac book pro and I’ve download iResize to use it but once I’ve resized the pic dragged on the Image List through the “Image viewer” window I don’t know how to export the pic…on the bar above the “FILE” have no optios: maybe I’m clumsy but I’m able to get it.
Any help is appreciate! Thank you in advance, Ep
VSO Image Resizer works great for Windows!
Where’s the link to iResize? I went to iResizeit.com, and while it does resize pictures, I couldn’t find anything that brought up a window like your screengrab here and I could drag multiple pictures into. The site says they only work off a website. Unless I was at the wrong site.
Thank you.
Vickie
Vickie, there’s a link at the bottom of the article to “Get it” =)
This is a wondeful app, this would have been perfect for my friend who posted hundreds of pics on Ebay, the hours she & I spent individualy re-sizing pics. But she is not a MAC user, I may have missed it, is there a simular app for PC? “B”
There is a program called ShrinkPic (http://www.onthegosoft.com/shrink_pic.htm) which I used before I switched over to mac. it was very useful for shrinking the size of lots of photos for emails etc.
P.S. it does work on any windows version, not just 2000 and XP like it says on the website.
My bad… wrong type of shrinking.
These are both very cool looking apps. I use Irfanview to batch resize images sometimes. These look a little easier to use. Thanks for the tip. 🙂