I’ve looked at most, if not, all the image optimisation and resizing applications for Apple Mac OS X. There are quite a few!

I found that most are not particularly good or intuitive to use. Some were free, and some cost $20 or more.

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After trying them all, I’ve now settled on just using Apple Preview to resize single images and batches of images. I also use another application to very effective optimize the image. Let’s look first at resizing in Preview

Open Preview
Go to FILE > OPEN > — and select one or more images to open. If you want to resize a batch of images, select more than one at this stage, rather than opening one, and then another, etc.
If you don’t see the thumbnails to the side of the main Preview pane, activate the sidebar.
Alternatively you can select the other icon to show all the thumbnails on the main Preview pane
Select one image thumbnail in the Sidebar or on the main Preview pane, and then hit COMMAND-A to Select All. You’ll see something like this:
Go to the TOOLS menu, select Adjust Size.
You will see the following window slide down, in which you can set the dimensions you wish to resize to, and click OK

That’s it. But don’t close Preview yet…

One more important thing: You will need to save the images yourself. Easiest way is to select Save All in the file menu.

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The other application I run my images through—the ones I wish to resize or make smaller for online usage—is ImageOptim.

ImageOptim is super simple to use. Just drag the images onto its simple window. You can also click the + button to add images from within ImageOptim.

Be sure to check the Preferences before running any images through this application. Also note that it does not have particularly flexible options for what to do with the original image. You can tell it to Backup original files before saving. Note that this will simply put a tilde sign (~) on the end of the image name extension. So IMAGE.JPG will become IMAGE.JPG~

The optimised image will adopt the name of the original image. Personally I don’t go along with this logic. The original (backed-up) image ends up becoming a dysfunctional file because it now has an invalid file extension. I use A Better Finder Rename 9 to deal with this after I do a large batch of image optimisations.

With the two of these applications working hand-in-hand you can get highly optimized and resized images in a flash, ready for using online or sending via email.

22 August 2013 – UPDATE – ImageOptim no longer has a “Backup original files before saving” option. So if you don’t want your originals sent to the trash, you’ll need to make a copy of them first.

Disk Utility User Guide

You can read and write to a disk image or change its size. For example, you can make a disk image smaller to save disk space or make it larger to store more information on it.

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Note: To resize a disk image, first close the image by ejecting it, so it doesn’t appear in the sidebar when you open Disk Utility.

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In the Disk Utility app on your Mac, choose Images > Resize, select the disk image file you want to resize, then click Open.
Type a new size, then click Resize.

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