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    crop & resize photos on a Mac? (for free)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Malia, Jul 24, 2006.

  1. Malia

    Malia Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Hiyas,

    My <3 Fujitsu <3 is off at a repair shop, and I'm using a borrowed Mac that I estimate is 7 yrs old. However, it's running OS X Tiger. iLife isn't installed because there's not enough room on the HDD.

    So, I need to do very simple image manipulation. I'm selling a bunch of stuff on Craigslist, so I take a bunch of pictures, crop them, resize them to something manageable & so that they line up (like 800 px wide), and off they go. I've been using MS Office Picture Manager to crop and Photoshop to resize, because MSOPM does a pretty bad job at resizing. Well, with a Mac, there's no MSOPM and no Photoshop, so I'm at a loss.

    I figured out how to import stuff into iPhoto, and how to crop using iPhoto. You crop by dragging a selection box, like I did in MSOPM, and that's what I like. However, I can't figure out how to resize, and Help only shows how to resize the whole program if you can't see all the buttons... So. Is there a way to do it via iPhoto? If not, or if there's an easier (free) way to do it, what is it? Thanks much!

    Malia
     
    Malia, Jul 24, 2006
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    slevytam, Nov 8, 2007
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