Sometimes you need a quick rescale / resize option for pictures, i.e. if you prepare images for your blog or similar.

For sure there are several free and non-free applications available offering this function, but why not just using some self-configured AppleScript-Code ?

The following code is based on a hint on macosxhints, but slightly modificated.

Description

The target is to create a small Applescrip-baed Droplet-Appliction which resizes /rescales all items and saves them on the current location using a modificated name.

Sounds easy … and yeah it IS easy.

But check the code yourself, i hope it is documented enough.

Code

Basically the script supports 2 modes

• 1 – images gets rescaled based on a defined fix value
• 2 – Dialog appears to define the width for each single image

The main target was to show how you can easily use AppleScript & Image Events to work with images. Based on that core-script you should be able to write more advanced snippets which might fit your needs much better then my example above.

Download

I saved the script as editable .app file – if you want to edit it, just open the .app in Script Editor

As mentioned above – the basic idea is from macosxhints – so see the link above if you want more informations.

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Tags: droplet, howto, rescale, resize, Scale