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Chris3125

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Aug 20, 2005
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as the title suggests, just when i want to upload a single photo for a forum or something. photoshop takes ages to load for me. just a simple program to resize, is there any out there?
 
iPhoto is good but it may take a while to load if you have lots of photo in its library. Assuming your photo is not already in iPhoto, this little application ImageWell is small & fast to load if you need to edit/crop/resize any image/photo in an instant. :)
 
Chris3125 said:
as the title suggests, just when i want to upload a single photo for a forum or something. photoshop takes ages to load for me. just a simple program to resize, is there any out there?

Of course if you have 2,5 inch HD Photoshop takes some time to load, but if u have a SATA drive it doesnt. After all why buy Photoshop and not use it, cuz it "takes a lot of time to load"?
 
You can create a workflow in automator that scales images.
Save it as a finder plugin, right-click the image or multiple images and select the workflow.
plugin.png
 
When I need to do quick editing, cropping/resizing where I don't need the full power of the Gimp (or in your case Photoshop) I use SeaShore. Its free, based on the Gimp actually, plus it loads in a flash.
 
this is a place imo where windows has os x beat. there's a ms powertoy to have resizing be a contextual menu item for every image (click a jpeg, have a list of presets along with a custom field, click ok and it resizes in the same file format with the same file name+small at the end.)
 
Chris3125 said:
as the title suggests, just when i want to upload a single photo for a forum or something. photoshop takes ages to load for me. just a simple program to resize, is there any out there?
GraphicConverter will do what you want. It launches quickly and is compatible with Photoshop plug-ins.
 
thanks for all the comments guys, give me a good few options to try out. i'm loving the workflow idea. i really should try to use automator more often
 
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