Which to choose to resize image on Mac OS X,PhotoMagic or iPhoto?

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Comparing PhotoMagic with iPhoto, although iPhoto is relatively powerful, the simplicity and user-friendliness are not as good as PhotoMagic. Especially, when you just need to use an image resizing tool for some basic tasks, PhotoMagic may be more practical. If you are a Mac user, the following results are expected to be useful when choosing which product to use.

1.Operating Interface

Look at the Operating Interface of the two products below, PhotoMagic obviously has a relatively simple and user-friendly one, all the frequently used functions, for example, Rotate, Flip, Crop etc, are lined on the top. After dragging in photos, you can start resizing immediately.

PhotoMagic

 

While resizing in iPhoto, you first need to double click an Event to view the all the images inside it, and next select the one you would like to resize by clicking it once, then choose Edit to begin to resize it.

iPhoto

 

2. Basic Functions

Compared with basic functions like Rotate, Flip, Crop, you can only counterclockwise Rotate the image 90 °each time in iPhoto, while in PhotoMagic, you can rotate the photos any degree you want, besides, you can also vertically or horizontally flip the images, which doesn't reflect in iPhoto, according to you needs.

  

Rotate and Flip in PhotoMagic

 

As for Crop, apart from supporting Cropping images for iPhone, PhotoMagic can help you crop images for other portable device, like Blackberry, Sony PSP, as well.

 

3. Batch Resizing and Batch Save

When you need to resize a bunch of photos to the same size, it is time-consuming and troublesome if you have to resize one by one. With PhotoMagic, which provide you with Batch Resizing and Batch Saving, your problem can be perfectly solved, you just need to highlight all the images and click Batch Save button. While in iPhoto, you have no choice but to do that one by one.

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