Hi, I need automator to resize images to 125x125, this includes images that are not perfect squares. I know it's an odd question, but I don't care about the image being distorted. If anyone knows of a way to do it with apple, java, or shell scripts that would be awesome or any other ideas.
Thanks!
MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)
You can do what you want in Preview. Make sure Preview Preferences > Images. Is set to "Open groups of files in the same window" is checked.
Select all the images and open in Preview.
Choose "Select All" from the Edit menu.
Choose "Adjust size" from the Tools menu.
Unclick the lock so you can set Height and Width separately.
Set the resolution.
Save
I've used this app for a number of years. It's an excellent add on tool for my image editing apps. Many times 3rd party apps meet needs that Apple just doesn't address.
Automator doesn't have any such capability.
I realize there are good alternatives and certainly nothing wrong with mentioning them. I just wanted to be clear Preview can accomplish what was requested.
I haven't used Resize but based on your recommendation I'm sure it works well. I respect your views and appreciate you hosting Pondini's site.
I know I can do it in preview...sorry I must have forgotten to mention that I want to automate the process for multiple images and I know there’s the scale image and crop and pad but none of those have been working out too well so I was looking for an AppleScript or java or shell script to accomplish this
Not sure what you mean. I can resize a hundred images or more at one time in Preview. But, along with Resize that Old Toad mentioned there are other batch processing apps.
Not sure what hasn't worked out too well means.
Old Toad wrote:
I've used this app for a number of years. It's an excellent add on tool for my image editing apps. Many times 3rd party apps meet needs that Apple just doesn't address.
Automator doesn't have any such capability.
I ended up trying Resize and ran into a couple of issues. One it's not a signed developer so you have to "Open" it from the contextual menu. More importantly, I had a warning dialog that the program could slow my computer. when I tried selecting a folder of images to convert, it took a while for the Open dialog to appear, a while to select a folder, etc. Once set up it converted the images fairly quickly. High Sierra 10.13.3
I would also mention XnConvert. Also free and supports 500 image formats, has more features.
I have an Automator running where when I drop images into a certain folder it takes those moves them into one folder, copies those to another folder and then I want them to be automatically resized to 125x125...I have it set up to use "Watch Me Do" in preview right now but if there's a script out there that can resize it without having to use watch me do and do it without opening preview that's what I would like.
You can use ImageMagick to modify the images as you want in the Terminal.app command line, download it from MacPorts or Homebrew, and try something like this:
magick '*.jpg' -resize 120x120! thumbnail%03d.jpg
Check the documentation for more options.
Try this free app: Resize! It'll do exactly what you want to do:
It will turn this photo:
into this:
It'll be distorted but you said that wouldn't matter.
I was trying to avoid third-party solutions. 😎
Need Automator to Resize Images
