I use preview for my work and since switching to Lion it's unusable.
Preview has become useless to me. I have to resize photos to upload them at my newspaper. Sometimes, for some God-known reason, I have to switch formats and switch back to make them upload on my website. In the old Preview, I could simply do a screenshot, open it, select "save as..." and save it as a jpg, then adjust the size, save it to my folder and then upload it.
The new version forces me to duplicate. If I then save the duplicate as a jpg, (or anything else) I can't do anything else to it because it says I don't have permission. I have to then find it in finder and change the permission on EACH photo, trying to change the permissions on the whole folder doesn't work. Once I've done that, I have to make ANOTHER duplicate, resize that, and save it. Soon I have versions of the photo all over my computer.
Conversely, I could resize it first, and then save it, but if I resize it as a PNG (which is what a screen shot is) and then save it as a jpg, it throws the size off.
If I upload the thing as a PNG it comes out smaller than does a JPG.
Furthermore, in the last Preview, the Save As.... option included a slider that allowed you to change the size in KB. Now it jsut shows a slider from best quality to least quality. Given that so many website limit KB size to 50 or 60, I am surprised that it's so hard to adjust to a specific number of KB!!! I have to keep guessing on Preview to get the photo as close to 60 as possible without going over!
If any part of this problem resonates with anyone, if anyone knows of something I don't know about in Preferences or something, for God's sake, my work life just got very difficult and any help is appreciated.
Also, somehow iPhoto got uninstalled on my computer. How can I reinstall it? Maybe I coudl do this photo resizing more easily in iPhoto and heck with Preview?
Note: I tried resizing on line, but it's very slow. Also requires intense guess work to get the KB right.
What happened was I selected the folder in the finder window, chose "get info" scrolled down and saw just the same thing you have there in the image.
I clicked the lock, chose a photo, did a screen shot (which landed on my desktop), retrieved the screen shot, put it in the folder with the original, then saved it as a jpg. (This is what my impossible website seems to make me do photos that came to me really large. It's not enough the merely resize it, I have to screen shot it, return the screen shot to a jpg, then resize it, and it will load. I have tech support working on that, but in the mean time, it's what i've got.)
So I then opened the jpg and tried to resize it....and got the same error message! You don't have permission! And I opened finder, found the jpg, clicked get info, and lo, same thing you show above, even though I'd theoretically changed permissions on that whole folder! And here's the kicker, I'm the person who supposedly has permission to read and write, but it doesn't seem to recognize me, and won't give me permission to edit my own dang photo!
Oh, GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!
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