[DM-MUG] Nifty trick using Color Sync Utility to resize an image

[Victoria L. Herring]

>From a recent smalldog.com newsletter:
>Mac Treat # 15: Use Tiger's (OS 10.4) ColorSync Utility to Quickly
>Shrink Images
>
>I discovered this tip by accident. A customer asked how he could
>quickly reduce the size of digital images for sending via email. The
>customer didn't want to use iPhoto or Mail to do this (see Mac Treat
>#14 for how to resize photos in OS X Mail.) Also, he didn't want to
>download the excellent (and free) ImageWell application (linked
>below.) Basically, he wanted to do what he was used to doing in
>Windows - right-clicking on an image to resize it.
>
>To do this in Tiger, select an image you wish to resize. Right-click
>on the image, or, if you use a laptop or a single-click mouse, click
>on the image while holding down the control key (usually the key
>located in the lower left corner of the keyboard.) A contextual menu
>will open up. In this menu, select "Open With" and chose "Color Sync
>Utility."
>
>In ColorSync Utility, click on the square resizing icon, which is
>second from the right. If you don't see the square resizing box icon,
>click on the oval tic tac-looking button on the upper right corner of
>the ColorSync window.
>
>When you click on the square resizing box, a menu will open up, with
>an option to Resize: scale. You can chose how small you want the
>image to be by percentages. You won't see the changed to the image
>until you save it. IMPORTANT NOTE:	the new, smaller image will
>overwrite the original image unless you choose Save > As and rename
>the new image. This is why iPhoto is great - non-destructive image
>editing means you can always revert to the original photo.
>
>However, for quickly resizing an image, ColorSync Utility is fast -
>it only take four steps, including saving the image.
>
>Download ImageWell to make simple image edits (including scaling them
>down) here:
>
><http://www.xtralean.com/IWOverview.html>http://www.xtralean.com/IWOverview.html

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