[Solved] Resize Image Action Only Blurs Image, Size Identical

[ronald]

Hello,

I frequently resize images to fit into texts I am writing. I simply ↓ the size by 50% in both directions in 95% of cases.

I wrote the macro below which I run after copying the image to the clipboard (I don't need to add copy to the start of the macro because my screencapture app automatically does it.

The macro output is the same image, same size but blurred.

thanks in advance for your time and help

[ccstone]

Hey @ronald,

• What version of macOS?
• What version of Keyboard Maestro?

• Have you looked at the help?
• Wiki ⇢ Resize Image Action.

“Resize an Image ⇢ Scale it to specified dimensions (width and height), which may distort image.”

The Resize Image to Fit action seems to be more what you're trying to accomplish.

However both blur for me on Mojave with my non-retina MacBook Air with Keyboard Maestro 9.1.

@peternlewis?

-Chris

[gglick]

As the KM wiki help article says, these actions refer to pixels, so resizing an image to 50/50 means you're changing it to 50 pixels high by 50 pixels wide, not reducing its size by 50%. To reduce by 50%, you'll want to use the IMAGE() function:

which (on my retina iMac) produces this:

[ronald]

thank you both @gglick and @ccstone
works perfectly. I would never have figured out adding the IMAGE() function.

[ccstone]

@gglick

so resizing an image to 50/50 means you're changing it to 50 pixels high by 50 pixels wide, not reducing its size by 50%.

Aha! I missed that part when I was reading the docs...

Thanks Gabe!

-Chris