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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
As a blogger, I manipulate a lot of photos and images. One of my daily routine consists in resizing some images we use on iDB to either reduce their size or simply make sure they fit right on the site. There are many different ways you can quickly resize several images at once on your Mac. If you want to resize them in place and replace the originals, leave this copy block out. You should now have two actions in the service. To make it work, click “Options” on the Scale Images service, and select “Show this action when the workflow runs.” This will make the service open a dialog asking for the image size.
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? What is reader on mac. 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!
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
- Select your photo in iPhoto by clicking on it
- Do any adjustments of Exposure, Sharpness, Cropping etc
- Select ‘Export’ from the drop down menu: iPhoto > File > Export
- Select Maximum Quality
- Select ‘Custom’ from the iPhoto ‘Size’ option (not the large, medium or small)
- Set the dimensions in pixels you need in the Height, Width, or Dimensions text box
- 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.
- it’s now saved as a .jpg or .png file format where you chose to save it, and can be found in Finder.
- When you use ‘Custom’ size adjustments in iPhoto, you can sometimes cause distortion of the image.
- 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
- Open a saved .jpg or .png format image using Finder>Apps>Preview – just clicking on it should automatically open it in Preview.
- If you want to keep a copy of the original image, and make a new image with different dimensions, go to Preview>File>Duplicate.
- 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.
- Click Unlock.
- Close you original image (out of harm’s way).
- Now make your size adjustments on the copy of the image you just made.
- Go to Preview > ‘Tools’ in the top line menu
- Select ‘Adjust Size’ from drop down menu
- Choose the pixel size/dimensions you want – some avatar uploads limit size to 100×100 pixels max
- 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.
- Go to File >Save
- 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.
- 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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One thing you should expect when using a Mac or any laptop is that the display screen might change unexpectedly. Either the text display becomes abnormally large or small or images are cut off and you do know how to shrink the screen back to normal size.
How To Make Screen Smaller On Mac
If you want to shrink your screen back to its normal size, it is a pretyy straightforward process. Using any of the methods explained below should help you restore the screen of your Mac PC back to its original state.
Option 1: Zoom in and Out
This is a simple action to perform if you are making use of an external mouse and keyboard. However, if you do not, have an external mouse, there is still a way around this.
Step 1a:On your Mac keyboard, look for the“Control” key
Step 2a:Hold the key down
Step 3a:Place your other hand on your mouse wheel
Step 4a:Scroll “up” and “down” with your fingers on both the wheel and control key at the same time.
Or
Step 1b:On your Mac keyboard, look for the “Control” key
Step 2b:Hold the key down
Step 3b:Place two fingers on your touchpad
Step 4b:Perform a “drag up” or “drag down” action with your fingers on the touchpad while holding down the control key at the same time.
However, the above steps might not work for you if your default setting does not allow for it. Once you change it, you can try zooming in and out again with your keyboard and mouse. Use the following steps.
Adjusting Zoom Setting on Mac OS X 10.7 and above
To adjust the setting for Macs with operating system 10.7 and above, you need to:
Step 1c: Select the “Apple” menu
Step 2c:Go to “System Preferences”
Step 3c:Place your cursor at the search bar and type “zoom”
Step 4c:A menu for “Accessibility” should popup
Step 5c:Search for the menu which reads “Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom”
Step 6c: If the box beside it is unticked, tick it
Step 7c:Choose the key to use which can be “Control” key and the above steps should work to zoom in and out.
Adjusting Zoom Setting on Mac OS X 10.6 and below
Other Mac versions require the following steps to change system preferences
Step 1d: Select the “Apple” menu
Step 2d:Go to “System Preferences”
Step 3d: Select the “Mouse” icon
Step 4d:A menu for “Mouse” should popup
Step 5d:Search for the menu which reads “Zoom using scroll wheel while holding”
Step 6d:If the box beside it is unticked, tick it
Step 7d:Choose the key to use which can be “Control” key and the above steps should work to zoom in and out.
Option 2: Change System Preferences
You may have accidentally changed the setting of your Mac system thereby leading to a change in orientation, display or resolution size. Once you adjust them, your screen should return to its prior state.
Adjusting Screen Resolution
Step 1:Select the “Apple” menu
Step 2: Go to “System Preferences”
Step 3:Select the “Display” option
Step 4: Look for the “Resolution” text
Step 5:You can either “tick” the circle for “best for display” or for “scaled” and select your preferred resolution
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Option 3: Adjust Text Size
By using a simple shortcut, you should be able to adjust the text size of your display screen.
Step 1: On your Mac keyboard, look for the “Command” key
Step 2:Hold the key down
Step 3:Look for the “+” sign to “increase text size” or the “-” sign to decrease text size
Step 4:Hold both the “Command” key and the “+” or “-” together
Option 4: Change The Size Of Desktop Icons and Text
If the size of your desktop icons are larger or smaller than the average, there is a simple adjustment you can make.
Step 1: Right-click your desktop home
Step 2: Look at the pop up menu and select “Show View Options”
Step 3:You have the option to increase text or icon size
Conclusion
To shrink the screen size of your Mac back to its normal orientation, use the steps explained above. However, if none of the steps from changing screen resolution to adjusting zoom work, there might be other issues affecting your system.