April 21
10 min. to read
Post processing is pretty much an essential part of photography. No matter how much time you spend taking a photo or how carefully you compose it, you still may have to tweak it a little in post. It doesn’t have to do with just color correcting images and fixing exposure. You may feel the need to resort to post processing even if you wish to accomplish a seemingly simple task like resizing your image.
If you want to resize pictures on Mac you should know that it can mean more than one thing. In order to physically resize your photo, you can either crop it or enlarge it. But maybe you simply need to change the file size of your image, and not necessarily the aspect ratio or field of view that it has. In that case, you need to know how to change the resolution of your image to make it smaller. This is important if you like to post your photos online, as some social media platforms don’t allow images with huge file sizes to be uploaded.
Let’s take a look at both ways to resize an image on a Mac computer.
The quickest way to resize an image, if you need to make it smaller, is to crop it. Cropping an image can be done with almost every image editing program you have on your Mac. Remember that you can work with almost any format: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. The easiest way to do it is to use Mac Preview to resize the image:
Cropping not only cuts into your image but also makes the overall size smaller. You can also use more advanced programs like Apple Photos or Luminar Neo to crop your images. These programs give you a little more control over your images, but essentially their crop tools work the same way as Preview.
How to resize a PDF image on Mac? It's very simple. Here's a quick tutorial:
You can also use third-party applications. Adobe Acrobat and Foxit PhantomPDF offer a resize option. You can use them to increase or reduce the file size.
How to resize a JPEG image on Mac? The best way to enlarge your photos on a Mac is to use Luminar Neo. You can essentially drag and increase the photo sizes in multiple image editors, but Luminar Neo gives you more control over the output quality of your enlarged photos. Another plus is that you can do this while exporting a picture. In order to make your photos larger in Luminar Neo, follow these steps:
The reason Luminar Neo is better than most photo editors on your Mac for enlarging photos, however, is the number of resampling options you have while changing the Image Size. You can resize the picture not only when exporting, but also using Crop AI.
If all you need to do to resize a photo on Mac is to reduce the file size of your image, Luminar Neo has got you covered there as well.
To resize pictures on a Mac while maintaining their quality, follow these steps using the Preview app:
How do you resize a photo on Mac without Preview? Luminar Neo also has an image quality slider. Just move it to the desired number during editing, and then you'll get the picture in the quality you want.
Another way how to resize a picture on Mac is to save the file in HEIC format. It can only be opened on the Mac. Yes, you won't increase the number of pixels, but you will keep the original image quality. The beauty of this format is that it has the same quality as JPEG, but is half the image size.
Mac users can easily process multiple photos. To resize an image with Preview on Mac, follow these steps:
These are some of the easiest ways you can resize your image on your Mac. There are a plethora of software programs that you can use for these kinds of purposes, and a little research about their features will reveal all that you can do with them. However, the methods mentioned here are some of the most efficient ones to achieve exactly what you want. Use any of them, and you're sure to succeed!