However, there are a few other options to use. One is to use Automator.
1. Open Automator from your Applications folder.
2. Select "Custom" as starting point.
3. Click on Photos > Scale Images, and drag that icon to the empty workflow area to the right.
4. When you get a question if you want to add a Copy Finder Items action, accept it with "Add".
5. Set the scaling factor to the size or percentage you want to use.
6. Save the workflow as an Application - not a Workflow, which is the default in the Save dialog.
7. Drag an image to the new Automator workflow application.
You will get a new copy with the defined scaling. If you want to change scaling, you do not even have to leave Automator. Just open the workflow application in Automator by dragging it on the Automator icon. Change the value and save, and you are ready to scale again.
This will work with for example jpeg, png, tif or psd files.
It will not work for gif or raw image files.
If you want even more flexibility, you can use these AppleScripts.
2 comments:
Question. Will this just re-size the images already pasted into the document? I have a Word doc with so many full-size images in it that it hit the 32 MB limit for a document in Word. I converted the document to Pages, but the computer crawls when I'm working on it. So will this Automator re-size the pictures in the Pages document while leaving the original picture in iPhoto untouched?
Thanks.
Actually, you have to resize the pictures outside Pages. The Automator script above works completely independently of Pages or Pages documents.
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