MacMost Now 823: Image Editing With Mountain Lion Preview

You can perform some basic and fun image editing using only the Preview app that comes with your Mac. You can cut out a part of one image and paste it into another. You can also crop and resize an image before exporting it to share it.

Comments: 6 Responses to “MacMost Now 823: Image Editing With Mountain Lion Preview”

    Dr. Jacqui Cyrus
    11 years ago

    Thank you for sharing a quick lesson activity that I can use with my UG students.

    Antrim
    11 years ago

    Great episode. Preview is full of wonderful, surprising, and frequently hidden features. Also, like your new theme song (or am I imagining that it is new?).

    Zdenka
    11 years ago

    Great video. As always it helps me discover some hidden but very helpful features of my Mac. Please is it possible to add a frame / border to a picture in Preview? Or to make a collage (for example 2-4 photos and a text on a uni-colour background. And if not what app would you recommend?

      11 years ago

      It is possible. You can use annotations to draw a box. And you can use copy and paste to piece together images.
      But if you do that a lot, maybe something like Pixelmator will be more useful. I've done many tutorials on that too.

    Mr Anthony Cotton
    11 years ago

    It`s amazing what Preview can do. I can remember quite some time ago when you helped me to get the App back on my computer.
    Apple hadn`t a clue,but you knew straight away,and you evan had a video which showed you what you could then.
    Watching this one it`s getting better than Photoshop Gary.

    John Bertram
    11 years ago

    Nice tutorial -- learned some good tips. But am I imagining things, or did an earlier version of Preview not have an Option-something ability to rotate whole images (or selection areas) in increments other than only 90 degrees? I'm just not finding a way to do this in the current ML edition. I know they want to keep Preview "simple", but did Apple really go to the bother of *removing* what strikes me as some already pretty basic functionality?

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