

Of course he may have religious reasons, or he may have a very odd computer that does not open Zip files, there are some out there, some of the early IBM magnetic tape machines in the fifties can't open Zip files. We don't know the reason for this request, although my friend said he alluded to it having something to do with changing the audio. On my social media feed this morning was a discussion started by a friend, another long time engineer and producer, who had been told by a mastering engineer he could not submit his files zipped up, in other words using any kind of data compression. He was both clear and (forgive the pun) frank in his assessment. You may recall last week we ran a story kindly shared by producer Frank Fillipetti on discussions around digital audio, bouncing audio and the confusion (myths) surrounding this. Once you’re happy with the result, click the “OK” button.Please read the title of this post very carefully, perhaps read it again before you continue to read, it may help you from hours of pointless discussions. Instantly, Preview will tell you the new file size of the image. Then, change the width to around 50% of the original size (You can try out different resolutions.). Then, from the editing options, click the Resize button (It’s the icon with multiple boxes.).įrom the pop-up, first, switch to the “Pixels” option. Click the Edit button from the top toolbar (It looks like a Pen icon.). Now that the photo is open in Preview, it’s time to resize it. RELATED: How to Change the Default Application for a File Type in Mac OS X

If Preview is not set as the default image viewer, right-click, and choose the Open With > Preview (We recommend that you take some time to set Preview as the default image viewer, as it will make your life easier.). Then, simply double-click the file to open it in Preview. First, open the Finder app and locate the image (or images) that you want to resize. Using the Preview app, you can do this for one image at a time or for multiple images at once.
