As the school website manager, I find that I really don’t want to deal with opening up GIMP or Photoshop (my really old old old version of Photoshop on my old old old eMac running 10.2…cripes), I turn to something easier when I need to crop or resize an image.
Seashore is an excellent image editor for Macs. It starts up quickly, makes a new file from your clipboard if you’re pasting from Grab or a screenshot, and does generally a quick fixeroo.
My favorite thing right now, though, is the MakeJPEG droplet. This is the best idea anyone has ever had. Here’s how it works. Drop an image, MakeJPEG converts it into a .jpg file and puts it on your desktop. When you put the MakeJPEG icons in the dock (for 60, 80, or 100 percent quality), all you have to do is drop the image you want onto the icon and poof! The image is now a .jpg on your desktop. This is wonderful for those pesky TIFF files from Grab that I have to convert before using them in a blog post, for example.
