Resize Sense 2
Does this app really make sense when it comes to re-sizing?
This quick and easyto-use batch processing app uses pre-defined settings to resize and crop multiple images. You can also create your own, resizing pictures to a specific width, height or resolution. This is great for creating low-res images for a web gallery or changing one image type to another. It may not sound glamorous, but for photography aficionados and image-editing professionals, it's a huge time-saver.
Using Resize Sense 2 is straightforward, with it’s basic and unfussy UI. The small uncoloured buttons can initially be confusing, but its rich, option-filled menus make up for this.
What makes it different to applying an action in Photoshop, say, or doing it individually through iPhoto, is you can edit images as you go, applying straightening or specific crops to individual images rather than all at once (or one at a time). Settings can be picked from a list of commonly used presets or created and saved to your own presets. You can also add and edit metadata. Files can be saved in a variety of formats in the original folder, or in another defined location, meaning you can edit your images without damaging the originals. Unfortunately, you can only apply one set of presets at a time (you can't create a string of different commands, for example, unless it's done via a single preset), and you can't edit the image itself (tweaking colour balance etc), which somewhat limits its usefulness.
Still, at £13.99 it's still cheaper than a full blown image editor. Alex Thomas