Was looking for a small, fast program to quickly and easily downsample a bunch of JPEGs (taken by my Canon PowerShot G1 at 2048x1536 res) to a specified size (e.g. 600x450). No, nothing like massive Photoshop. I was thinking I'd be able to drag and drop a folder containing all my JPEGs and it would spit them back to a specified folder at my specified resolution. I wanted it to handle both landscape and portrait pictures such that I'd just need to specify the size of the longest dimension. So if I specified 600 pixels as the longest dimension, it'd size a standard digicam picture (4:3 aspect ratio) to 600x450 if the picture was landscape and 450x600 if the picture was portrait.

I searched on VersionTracker.com and downloaded and tried a bunch of suitable apps including ImageEdit, ImageConverter, ConvertImage, Fast Webpictures, and DropJPEG. The best one I came across was KStudio's Resize!. It has all the features I was looking for, it's freeware and is available for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and even Windows! When it processes a folder of images, it automatically creates a new folder on your desktop using the same name as the original folder and the size of the longest dimension in parentheses appended at the end (i.e. from an original folder named 20020802 Photos, folder 20020802 Photos (600) is created on your desktop containing the resized pictures). I'm hoping that an updated version will have the ability to apply a bit of sharpening to each picture as well.

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