Quickscale App Review

Quickscale is an app I've mentioned before. Awhile back I had to batch resize a ton of images and so I reviewed a bunch of apps for that purpose and moved on. Since then I've registered my copy of Quickscale and I have another round of image resizing to complete. I figured that was a perfect time to write a dedicated review of this awesome software. As a side note, the developers of this software have fantastic customer support and are super easy to contact and make suggestions to. Okay...here goes.

First I'll outline the task in front of me.

1114 images to be processed (split across 2 folders on a network attached server)

Images are 6000px x 3000px and need to be reduced to 4000px x 2000px

Final images need to be exported to a single folder

The first thing I did was open up Quickscale and drag the 2 folders for processing. Within a few seconds Quickscale had imported the images and began populating the visual grid. This is a great help when trying to do a quick visual check on your imported items. It reminds me of iPhoto but more utilitarian. Getting my images in couldn't have been simpler or faster.

I exported the images at 80% quality into an existing folder at the new widths. This program makes it very easy to run a quick check of your settings by using the Preview option in the File menu. This allows you to temporarily run the batch on a single, selected image to see if your settings work. This was great for me because not only did the images have to stay within size constraints, they also had to be within certain file size constraints since they will be accessed on the web. I exported them to my computer since the network latency would have slowed down the batch a lot. Also, I'll need to upload them via FTP later so it will just make it easier for me to have them on my local drive.

The machine I'm running this batch on is a 17" MacBook Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz with 4MB of RAM. Not the most powerful machine in the world but still a pretty zippy computer all-in-all. Quickscale completed the export in 41.06 minutes which is pretty impressive given the circumstances.

One last saving grace of this app is the ability to save presets. This allows you to create re-sizing batches and reproduce the results every time. Since I plan on having to perform this task several times it makes it very easy to just re-use the settings from the previous batch.

Either way my recommendation is, if you batch process images, you need this application. For the €14.99 they are asking for this app it's an absolute steal. Check it out at Codingmammoth.