Have you ever spent hours of frustration trying to resize a photo in your Mac’s iPhoto down to Avatar size? Yesterday I was trying to fill in my Profile in a Forum I’d just joined. I tried to upload a photo of myself for my Avatar. They had a pixel limit of 100×100 pixels, and no matter how I cropped and saved and uploaded, this site’s software stubbornly refused to upload my edited photos. I tried doing it in iPhoto itself, but the size adjustment was already on the smallest setting.

Here’s What Didn’t Work

First I tried to use my Gravatar – you do have a Gravatar….don’t you! I’ve never had any problems using Gravatar before, and I’ve been posting comments on lots of other forums and websites. Why? Because posting comments on other people’s websites is a good method of generating traffic back to your own site. But this particular Forum had some weird, antiquated software for uploading that I’ve not seen anywhere else before – and it didn’t do a good job!

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Tip for young players: when something you are trying to do online, refuses to do what you want it to do, blame the software. That’s what I do. Why? It preserves your self-esteem, and allows you to sail serenely on, with supreme, super-hero-self-confidence in your tireless pursuit of … Living the Dream!….. for example, making a bundle online, and retiring to a tropical island (substitute personal dream of choice here).

OK, if you haven’t been paying attention and following my advice and instructions in How to Add a Photo to Your Online Comments, consider yourself noticed…..and go to Gravatar.com at your earliest opportunity. Make some Avatars/Gravatars, and start adding Authority to your online comments – it’s a free Gravatar service and in most forums and websites, and it works a treat.

Note to self:Focus!! Quite right.

So yesterday I gave up the photo shrinking struggle, but today I started researching how to resize photos in Mac iPhoto – because no one wants to be defeated by a machine, and… I saw an opportunity to help out my readers in case they ever run up against this same problem. Here is what I learned – and yes, this works. I show you 2 ways to shrink photos: one using iPhoto, and one using Mac Preview App – that is shipped free with all Mac computers.

Personally, I use the Preview app for shrinking (or increasing) my image sizes, rather than iPhoto for changing image size – it’s much easier and ALWAYS works. But try both methods and see which suits best for you.

But I do use iPhoto for Cropping, and Adjusting (exposure, sharpness, shadow etc) if I need to do that first. Then I Export the Adjusted image to my computer, where I upload image to Preview and do size adjustments there.

If you are uploading your images into a website, don’t forget to Optimize your Images so they don’t slow down your website’s loading speed.

I always use free TinyPng.com to do that. If you use Tinypng to optimize images – don’t forget to first save your images in png format (not jpg) or Tinypng doesn’t work – you can easily do this in Preview’s Save Options as well.

Step By Step Instructions How to Resize Photo Sizes in iPhoto

1. Select your photo in iPhoto by clicking on it
2. Do any adjustments of Exposure, Sharpness, Cropping etc
3. Select ‘Export’ from the drop down menu: iPhoto > File > Export
4. Select Maximum Quality
5. Select ‘Custom’ from the iPhoto ‘Size’ option (not the large, medium or small)
6. Set the dimensions in pixels you need in the Height, Width, or Dimensions text box
7. Click Export, and on the next screen select somewhere on your computer outside iPhoto where you want to export it to. For example, to Documents or Desktop.
8. it’s now saved as a .jpg or .png file format where you chose to save it, and can be found in Finder.
9. When you use ‘Custom’ size adjustments in iPhoto, you can sometimes cause distortion of the image.
10. Keep calm….you can just use Preview for your size adjustments and use iPhoto only for image Editing/Adjusting.

How to Shrink Photos using Mac’s Preview App

1. Open a saved .jpg or .png format image using Finder>Apps>Preview – just clicking on it should automatically open it in Preview.
2. If you want to keep a copy of the original image, and make a new image with different dimensions, go to Preview>File>Duplicate.
3. If you haven’t opened this photo/image for a while, you might now be shown an option box which tells you that this file is ‘locked’ with an option to Unlock it.
4. Click Unlock.
5. Close you original image (out of harm’s way).
6. Now make your size adjustments on the copy of the image you just made.
7. Go to Preview > ‘Tools’ in the top line menu
8. Select ‘Adjust Size’ from drop down menu
9. Choose the pixel size/dimensions you want – some avatar uploads limit size to 100×100 pixels max
10. If you uncheck the automatic ‘Scale Proportionally’ check box in Preview, you can stretch or squash images, but this will distort the image. For small adjustments, this might not matter – or, you can use this stretching/squashing feature to make some interesting ‘new’ images – useful for background images.
11. Go to File >Save
12. If you want to, you can increase the Quality slider to Max. I find that for ordinary screenshots and image uploads into posts, you do not need to set quality to Max. Using Max resolution increases the KB size/weight of your image, which can slow down your page’s loading speed. However, if you have a Photography blog, you might want to use Max Resolution anyway, and not worry about the weight of the image.
13. Save – all done. Congratulations!

P.S. If you have a rectangular image that you need to make square e.g. for thumbnail uploads, it’s best to crop the photo (to make it square) in iPhoto first. Then Export the square image to your computer. Upload it into Preview, and then you can shrink (or increase) the photo (which is already square) and keep the Scale Proportionally box checked, and you avoid any distortion.

Alright! Time for a treat!

Hint: rewarding yourself for your achievements, saves you waiting around for others to do it for you. That always works for me.

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Images don’t always come in convenient sizes. Whether you’ve downloaded one from the web or taken one yourself in the hopes of using it for a project, resizing it to fit certain guidelines is often required.

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How To Resize Images On Mac

You have two easy options that allow you to resize images on Mac: either using the default Preview app or more advanced PhotoBulk.

Preview is built right into your Mac and mostly used for viewing images. But it’s also a feature-rich tool for manipulating images, including changing their size. Preview lets you control every detail, from the number of pixels to the dimensions in inches. You could also choose to transform the image as a percentage of the original or go completely custom. Finally, the app gives you an option to modify images according to a range of preset sizes, such as 640 x 480 pixels.

Here are the steps to resize an image in Preview:

1. Open the image you want to modify
2. Click on Tools and select Adjust Size
3. Now you can adjust the Width, Height, and Resolution
4. Once you’ve made those changes, make sure you’ve ticked the “Scale proportionally” box; otherwise you risk an image that is out of proportion and may not look very professional

Now the resized image will show in the Preview window, and you can keep trying out new sizes until you are happy with the end result. Go to File > Save to save the image with the original name or File > Rename if you want to keep the original (useful if you need to keep a high-resolution version) and apply a different name to this copy.

With Preview, you can also change the file format. Under File > Export, you have the following options: PNG, JPEG, JPEG-2000, OpenEXR, PDF, or TIFF. Some of these could potentially improve the quality of the formatting as well.

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PhotoBulk is a life-saver for when you need to change the size of multiple images. Drop them into the app and resize in a sec.

Another option is to use PhotoBulk, an image editor designed specifically for bulk resizing, but which can also be used to resize individual images. PhotoBulk puts all of the menu options in one convenient window, along with a real-time preview feature and the option to apply watermarks at the same time.

To resize an image with PhotoBulk:

1. Open up the app
2. Drag and drop your image onto the window
3. Check Resize option from the left-side menu
4. Select the type of resizing you need
5. Click Start

Resize multiple images at once

Sometimes you need to resize multiple images at once. Although probably not your best option, Preview does allow for batch resizing:

1. In the folder with your images, select the ones you need to resize and then right-click on them, and choose Open With > Preview. This will open them all in Preview’s left sidebar.
2. Select all the images inside Preview (shortcut: Cmd + A) and then go Tools > Adjust Size, just like in the steps outlined above
3. When done, choose to either Save or Rename and then Save

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The downside of using Preview for batch resizing is that you have to process all the images at the same time. PhotoBulk, on the other hand, provides much more control and the ability to modify the size of individual images without needing to apply those same dimensions to every image:

1. Drag and drop a bunch of images into PhotoBulk
2. Check the Resize box
3. Use the dropdown menu to adjust images according to width, height, etc.
4. In the same area, you can choose to rename files and their formats, as well as add a watermark if needed

Overall, whichever option you choose for resizing images, Preview or PhotoBulk, it should now be fairly easy for you to do so. Your best bet is probably to use Preview for single images and PhotoBulk for multiples ones. Just make sure you input the right dimensions and don't forget to save the original if you need to keep a higher resolution version for later. Best of all, PhotoBulk is available for a free trial through Setapp, a platform of over 150 useful apps and utilities for macOS. Another trick up your sleeve.

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