iPhoto is a great tool of iLife. I use it to store all my family pictures.
Sometimes, I want to share my images (.Mac is very very very slow in Europe) so I want to scale all the images of an event (iLife 08).
You can use the Export-function of iPhoto but personally I miss some export features (like watermark, really custom names, more scaling-methods, … ).

Since Leopard, Apple has added iLife support to the standard Open-Panel.
So, you can add very easy your iPhoto images to QuickScale, and this is very cool.
Just choose the open-menu and you will see the default open panel.
At the left on the bottom, you have a submenu “Media”, if you expand this you will be able to see “iPhoto”.
Then, just select your event (or multiple evens) and press the ‘open’ button.
You can also dubbelclick on a event to select individual pictures of an event, pretty cool, isn’t?
Al the selected images will be loaded in QuickScale, ready to export. That’s all… very easy, isn’t?

I’ve scaled a bounch of images (about 1254 images – 1.3 GB) to 600×600 px (large enough to share via the internet) and the exported images had a size of 99.8 MB (with a watermark).
And say it yourself, what is the easiest to put on your webserver? 1.3GB or 100MB ?

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Hi!

I’ve just released QuickScale 3.6.3.

Release notes:

• [Fixed] Minor UI changes

Download now:
for Leopard
for Tiger

This is a free update for all pro- users!

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I hope that you like QuickScale 3.6!
I didn’t receive any complaints so far so I guess that you are liking it.

Since QuickScale 3.6, I’ve integrated CMCrashReporter. A free self-maded open-source framework to report crashes of applications. Thanks to some reports, I noticed that there was a little bug in QuickScale 3.6.

There was a bug when you are scaling with ‘percent’ as a condition. My excuses for this error… I tested QuickScale (like you can see in the Analyze topic) but I didn’t notice this bug. I’ve fixed the error within 24 hours and that is pretty quick I guess.

QuickScale 3.6.2 is available for download since sunday and I didn’t receive any crash-logs of QuickScale 3.6.

I hope you like it (especially the Tiger users) and if you notice a problem, please use the contact page to contact us and we will fix it!

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Finally! QuickScale 3.6.0 (for Leopard and Tiger) is released!

Release notes of QuickScale

• [Feature] Added the posibility to add a watermark to your images.
• [Feature] Added the option to export images using CoreImage, resulting in much higher quality.
• [Feature] Added new naming-tokens for original and new size.
• [Feature] Added a new export method which applies a border around your images.
• [Feature] Added the ability to import and export QuickScale’s settings.
• [Fixed] Fixed a bug when converting to unknown filetypes.
• [Fixed] Updated the UI to be more consistent with Leopard.

Download now:
for Leopard
for Tiger

This is a free update for all pro- users!

The next image shows the differences between the default-engine and the CoreImage-engine.
Please notice that this is the result of a DNG-file scaled to JPG.

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Okay, it is maybe just a little unimportant detail, but I’ve updated the store.
I’ve updated the generator of the serials.

In the past: The serials had the follow syntax:

Application-9 digits -checknumbers

For example:
QuickScale-D5KfE92Lk-54

This is very nice, but also very ugly! It is very difficult to see the difference between a 0 and o and a O etc. The new serial system, that works a little week right now (as beta and now full operational) generate serials with the follow syntax:
xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx

And x is a number between 0 and 9,
for example
1234-5678-1357-5780

The new syntax is 100% good for everyone.

Applications in the future will have 4 text-boxes, just to add those 4 x 4 numbers,
but the current QuickScale will keep the old serial window.
All the old serials are still active in the new QuickScale!

Note: both serials are fictive and don’t work in QuickScale, I hope.

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Today is the day for QuickScale 3.6 Tiger.
No, it isn’t yet released (I’m waiting on an icon before I release QuickScale 3.6 Leopard).
When QuickScale 3.6 Leopard is released, I hope next week, I will release immediate QuickScale 3.6 Tiger.

But, you will think, why is it today the day for QuickScale 3.6? Well, I started to convert QuickScale Leopard to QuickScale Tiger and I’m ready! He is finished. He is justing waiting on his big brother to be released.

(Read the article)

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First test.

I did all the test with 52 high resolution images.
All 52 images are in JPG with a resolution of 1920×1200, 1680×1050 etc.

Tested on a MacBook, 13 inch, 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM with images on the main hard disk and exporting to the main hard disk. Notice that the CoreImage-engine results can be better, but the MacBook has a ‘bad’ integrated graphical card.
Applications running in the background: MarsEdit, Safari, Mail, iChat, Finder, Intervals (a stopwatch application with the Apple Remote control support), NetNewsWire, Xcode (not compiling of course), iTunes (playing a song on the background). So the test isn’t 100% correct but it is an idea to get some numbers.

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Tiger-users that use QuickScale have at this moment an old version.
This isn’t cool.

You have Tiger, because Leopard is too expensive (for example) or Leopard is to heavy for your computer, … and why should you have a lightweight version of QuickScale?

Thanks to a message from a customer of QuickScale, who complaint why the QuickScale-Tiger didn’t have the same functions as the Leopard-version. I’ve started to test QuickScale on Tiger.

There is one big feature in QuickScale incompatible in Tiger and that is the preview-matrix at the left.

So, there will be a new QuickScale version for Tiger.
The same one as the Leopard-version, but without the preview-matrix.
The preview-matrix will be changed with a simple list.

The update for the Tiger users will be huge!
They will have custom names (with tokens), CoreImage-engine, export-methodes, Watermarks, …
Just for free!

I hope that the Tiger-users will be happy with this choice!

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Today, I have updated my blog software.
I use WordPress as blog-software because it works very easy, it is compatible with Safari and I can write articles with MarsEdit.

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As promised, a screenshot of QuickScale 3.6 .
You can think that there isn’t a big change,
but that is because it is a small screeenshot and I just changed some little things.
You will notice the changes directly if you start QuickScale 3.6 (once it is released of course).
It has a better bar at the bottom, the lines are better and it just seems more to be a real Leopard application!

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