Microsoft Office Picture Manager

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Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Hi guys!

I just got my Mac a couple of months ago, and I'm still getting used to it. I've got a quick question about compressing pictures.

Using MS Office Picture Manager (on Windows, of course), I can easily compress pictures using their three default settings ("Documents" 1024 x 768, "Web pages" 448 x 336 and "E-mail messages" 160 x 160). I can also select lots of pictures and compress them at the same time.

Which Mac software applications can I do this with? I've tried using iPhoto and Picasa, but they don't work as well.

Cheers!

Macbook Pro 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 7, 2009 3:08 PM

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micp

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Oct 7, 2009 3:50 PM in response to Moja

Hello and welcome to the Apple community and forums!

iPhoto File > export is an excellent way to resize one or multiple photos.

You can also select multiple photos and click the email button in iPhoto.

You can also drag a batch of photos into a new email message from finder and then the bottom left corner of the message window allows you to size small, medium, large or original.

Preview > Tools > Adjust Size ... also works well.

There are many many options to resize photos, and these are but a few of the free.

Cheers

Michael

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micp

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Oct 8, 2009 6:57 AM in response to Moja

If I have a few to do I will export to a folder I create on my desktop, once complete right click the folder and choose compress, then email the newly created zip file.

Once I am sure the other side has the pics - delete.

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Moja Author

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Oct 7, 2009 4:17 PM in response to micp

Thanks for that. I did use iPhoto to re-size photos, but I wasn't too keen on exporting the photos. I'll start using Preview to compress them. Really appreciate the advice!

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