Easiest way to re-size an image to a specific size in iPhoto.

Not noticed the resizing options in the Export dialogue of iPhoto, then?

Thanks. That might do the trick! Do you know of anything that would give me finer controls than iPhoto's choices of 4 JPeg sizes: Low, Medium, High and Maximum? Sizerox gives me a slider from 1 - 100% so I can fine tune the density of the final image, and I'd love to be able to keep that capability.

iPhoto's choices of 4 JPeg sizes: Low, Medium, High and Maximum?

Those relate to image quality, i.e. the amount of jpeg compression that is applied to the file to reduce the file size. It has nothing to do with the image size in pixels.

Image size is addressed in the Size area:

If you want a 640 x 480 image make sure the photo is first cropped to the 4:3 ratio. Then export and under Size set the maximum dimension to 640 pixels. That will give you what you want.

If you've edited the file select Kind = Current. If you want the original file select Kind = Original.

OT

Thanks, but that's not quite what I meant. I can give a portrait image a height dimension of 318 pixels (which is my maximum) in many different programs. The width will vary to keep the image proportional. But my issue is then getting that image down to the size in KB that I want while keeping the dimensions unchanged, and having only 4 choices, instead of a continuum is the issue. The size I want, might, for example, fall between "Medium" and "High".

As OT says, that's not size, that's jpeg quality. iPhoto offers 4 settings, that's all. Other apps have different options.

Regards

TD

OK. Thanks for the input. So, what I should have asked for is whether there's an iPad app that will let me set both the image size by pixels, as well as the image quality on a sliding, incremental scale. Do you know of one? Thanks!

iPad app? This is the iPhoto for Mac forum.

Regards

TD

Then the Quality setting is what you want but may not be as versatile as you need.

I use Resize! for that. It has a continuous slider for quality/file size.

cdworin wrote:

Thanks. That might do the trick! Do you know of anything that would give me finer controls than iPhoto's choices of 4 JPeg sizes: Low, Medium, High and Maximum? Sizerox gives me a slider from 1 - 100% so I can fine tune the density of the final image, and I'd love to be able to keep that capability.

The iPhoto for Mac export includes a custom option where you can set the exact maximum dimension you want to the pixel - can't get much "finner" than that

LN

Sorry about that. I posted in the iPad forum and got redirected to this page.

Thanks!

Thanks.