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image-editing for good reason. It has all the high-end tools you could want for
playing with graphics and costs 100 percent less than Photoshop.
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Icecream Image Resizer
Icecream Apps has many nice programs, but the most useful for designers with
a batch of graphics that need a quick resize is the aptly named Image Resizer.
Drag images to it, pick a size and a destination folder, and they’ll be converted
in an eye-blink.
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Adobe product, but at this price—free—it’s pretty close. For any minor (and
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