There are a number of features that are built into the Mac OS that have made my day-to-day blogging a easier.
One of those things is Preview.
You can easily resize and crop images for blog posts really easy. You can double-click an image and it will be opened by Preview by default, or you can use the shortcut ⌘ + O. To save some space on my server, I will often resize images to the default set on the blog I’m posting for. I’ll do this with thumbnails or fullwidth images. This can also be helpful if the image is a few pixels too short. Best of all, Preview lets you resize multiple images at once, ⌘ + A.
This has been a huge time saver, but I was a little annoyed that I had to click multiple menus to Resize my images. I wanted to create a custom keyboard shortcut, so I did a little digging around and this is what I found:
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