Reduce iPhone Photo Size via Email. When you are going to share photos via Mail on Photos app, iPhone or iPad will prompt you that you can choose a size for the selected photos or to keep the actual size. Which is an optional way to compress iPhone photos by scaling images. To do this, you can follow the instructions as below: 1.
You're confusing a few different things here.
How To Decrease Photo File Size In Iphoto
Maximum image quality and file size are not the same thing, for a start.
- Click Save in the Automator File Menu. Name it image resize 50%.app. It saves to Applications Folder. Double-Click the icon in Applications. Right-Click the app in the dock and select Keep in Dock. Now, any image you drag onto this Dock icon will Duplicate and Reduce image Size by 50% (so 12 MegaPixels will become 6 MegaPixels).
- When Apple released Photos for macOS, the company chose a clever approach to reduce Photos' storage consumption, knowing that most users would be upgrading an iPhoto library.
iPhoto never touches the original file at all. It opens it and as you make the edits to the application records you decisions in the database. When you view a photo in iPhoto it's a composite of the original and the decisions recorded, and applied live as you view.
How To Reduce Image File Size On Iphoto
If you want to use that photo for something then you have to export it. This make a new file with your photo in it. When you export you have a lot of options - including ones that will make the filesize bigger than the original. This User Tip
How To Reduce Photo File Size In Iphoto
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.
If you use drag and drop from the iPhoto Window that's a form of exporting too -but you have no options there. You get the iPhoto Preview. That's a 'handy-good-enough-for-most-things version of the shot. If you want more options use the export command.
May 20, 2013 4:06 AM