Resize a photo without Photoshop — exact size, exact file weight
«Make it 1920 wide and under 2 MB» — the classic request that usually means bothering a designer or trusting a random online converter with your photo. On a Mac it's three clicks, locally.
What ClipMend does with photos
- Size presets that behave — 4K / 1080 / 720 / 480 fit the photo into a standard frame preserving the aspect ratio: nothing stretched, nothing cropped, never upscaled. A 3:2 photo into "4K" becomes 3240×2160; a 16:9 one becomes exactly 3840×2160.
- Target file weight — the unique bit: set the megabytes you need and ClipMend searches the JPEG quality that lands there, with a live size estimate on the slider. No export-check-re-export loops.
- Any input — HEIC from iPhones, Apple ProRAW/DNG, Sony ARW raw, PNG, TIFF, BMP → out to JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP or HEIC. Color profiles (Display P3) preserved; iPhone HDR photos can stay true 10-bit HDR in HEIC.
- Privacy in one click — strip all metadata before publishing: GPS location, device model, capture dates.
- Batch — drop a folder; every photo gets the same treatment with per-file progress.
The three-click workflow
- Drop the photo (or a whole folder) → QUICK → Image.
- Pick format and size preset; drag the weight slider until the estimate shows the megabytes you need.
- Convert — the result lands next to the original.
No upload, no account, no watermark, no «free converter» with ads. Your photos never leave your Mac.
FAQ
I need exact pixel dimensions like 1080×1080 for a banner.
Presets fit into standard frames; free-form canvas with custom cropping is on the roadmap. For exact-frame crops today, crop first in Preview, then use ClipMend for format and weight.
Does JPEG quality search degrade the photo badly?
It finds the highest quality that fits your weight target — typically visually indistinguishable until you go very small. You see the estimate before converting.
Can it make a TIFF for print?
Yes — TIFF output with LZW compression, 8- or 16-bit, with the color profile preserved.
Stop asking the designer
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