| Author | Message | ||
     Nutsnbolt |
Okay, I am having a real problem here. I have a Mac, and I'm sure there are others out there that have one, also. I have tried these image compression programs and my comp wont recognize it cause its a .exe . How do I go about curtailing this or is there another more mac friendly image compression program that is free that I can use? I'm trying to post images and I'm coming up snake eyes. Thanks Mark | ||
| Gearhead |
I'm a Mac guy. I'm currently using PhotoShop.cs, version 8. I use Image size and bring the largest dimension down to 500 pixels with the resolution at 72. Save as a jpeg with the quality at 6 (medium) and baseline (standard) For posting on BadWeb the quality seems fine. There may be better ways but this always works for me  | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Why not just use iphoto? Just export the photo to the desired size. | ||
| Nutsnbolt |
uh... cause I didn't realize that I could export them until today. Yeah, that works pretty dang well. Thank you.. Mark | ||
| Gearhead |
I never tried IPhoto for this purpose, I'm just used to working with PhotoShop since I use it so much at work. | ||
| Nutsnbolt |
yeah, I have a PC with photoshop but, I rarely use it, anymore. I've had my mac for a year now and I just do everything with it. I'll probably never go back. So, it just never occured to me that i could use Iphoto. Mark | ||
| Nutsnbolt |
here's the thing, to make the image 71 kb or smaller, you really suffer on image size and quality even using iphoto to export. So, I'm still left with the same question... is there an image compression program for macs? There's the jpeg optimizer and all that, but, couldn't use it on the mac. So, there's got to be something out there that is a free deal just like it is for pc's. Just can't find it. mark | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Photoshop CS2 has a saving mode called " save for Web" under the File in the menu Bar. This compresses the image even further, and if often useful to me to get an image that "should " work according the Bad web specs, but doesn't, to upload. If I remember correctly, (always a long shot), the previous version of Photoshop had this as well. By compressing the image like this, a fairly large photo can be posted within the rather narrow bandwidth requirements of Bad web. An example if I may:  | ||
| Reepicheep |
I use that same "save for web" with my PC version of Photoshop Elements. It's nice, and makes it easy to evaluate sizes and compression methods in real time to choose the best bang for the bandwidth buck. | ||
| Typeone |
Fireworks or Photoshop are my image editing apps but sounds like you're looking for something simple and most likely free.. . have you tried Preview out yet? its a utility that comes with OS X. you can 'Save As...' a JPG or JPG2000 with various compression settings. no real-time preview with sizing though, which sucks. to hunt through some Mac apps check out http://www.versiontracker.com/mac/osx/graphics/image-edit (Message edited by typeone on December 21, 2006) | ||
| Typeone |
this one got a good rating. Freeware to boot! SmallImage - 2.0.6 Developers site here: http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/smallimage2/ (Message edited by typeone on December 21, 2006) | ||
| Barker |
I use gimp its like photoshop but free! gimp.org Most of the time I just use preview on OS 10.4 Long live mac | ||
| Krassh |
Any reason you just don't use a free image hosting site like photobucket and link to the pictures so they show up in the post? Like this. Photobuckets free account does limit the image to 800X600 but it resizes automatically.  | ||
| Krassh |
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