How do I find out the file size of my photos, and change them to the size

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How do I find out the file size of my photos, and change them to the size

This will sound inane, but I cannot figure out where to find the file size of my photos in iPhoto. I need a jpeg of a certain file size and image size for my blog background, but can't figure out how to even start.

Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 8, 2010 2:01 PM

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Answer 1

Tesseraj Author

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Aug 8, 2010 2:04 PM in response to Tesseraj

Naturally, now that I have asked the question, I found the photo info line, but still need to figure out how to change the file size so I can use it.

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Yer_Man

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Aug 8, 2010 2:06 PM in response to Tesseraj

Click on the Info button lower left (the wee 'i') and on the resulting Info Pane you'll get the dimensions and the file size.

To resize a photo: Select the pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. In the resulting dialogue you will have the options to resize the photo.

Regards

TD

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Old Toad

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Aug 8, 2010 2:56 PM in response to Tesseraj

If the limited quality options do not get you the file size you need export the full size image files to a folder on your Desktop and use Resize! to batch resize the image dimensions and file size (jpeg compression level) to what you need.

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With Resize! you can fine tune the pixel dimensions and file size.

OT

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Tesseraj Author

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Aug 9, 2010 6:07 AM in response to Old Toad

Thanks Old Toad,

I had already tried the export quality options, and they weren't precise enough. I didn't know about Resize - I will definitely give that a try!

Tesseraj

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