 If you need to do batch image editing on the Mac, then I've got a great little app to tell you about today in this video. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And in this video, we're gonna be talking all about a little app called Squash, which is a batch image editor. Now, this is not one of these videos about an application that I'm gonna tell you. I've been using this for years and years and years and I couldn't live without it. Quite the opposite. I've been using this application for a little over four hours. I found out about it today by watching the Ecam Live stream in the Ecam Live Facebook group and Doc Rock mentioned it and it is just what I need. Previously, I had used an application called Picturesque on the Mac, but that has not been around for quite some time, I don't think. So yes, this is certainly going to be a very useful little addition to my image editing suite, shall we say. And it's a great little app and it's part of the Set Up Bundle. Now, I've made videos about Set Up before and about some of the other applications that are available as part of this Set Up Bundle before and this has basically inspired me today to actually make a whole series more videos about some of the other apps that I use in Set Up. So what is Set Up exactly? Well, Set Up is basically a collection of apps, over 200 in fact, that you can get access to by signing up and subscribing to Set Up for just $9.99 a month and you essentially get a little mini app store that you download and put onto your Mac and then you can browse all of the apps and just install all of the ones you want or you can download them all and try them all and then just uninstall from within the Set Up app, uninstall the ones that you don't want. The great thing about Set Up is if there's these little apps that maybe you just need to use them occasionally or you just need some little small component of them where you perhaps wouldn't go out and buy the whole app but because you've got it available in Set Up, it makes it really easy to just add it in and use them as and when you need it and then take it off again if you don't. But Squash is definitely one that I'll be leaving permanently installed on my computer because it is a really neat little app and I really like the design of it as well. So I'm going to show you now, it's very simple, it won't take long, it's a great little app to get used to and you'll soon figure out exactly what you can do with it. So as I have, because like I say, I've been using it for four hours so it can't be that difficult. If even an idiot like me can figure it out. So let me come over and show you the app itself and here it is within the Set Up app and you just download it from here and then it'll appear on your computer. And then once you open the app itself, the interface is basically like this. It starts actually with a blank panel here but this is basically where you'll just drag in any images that you've got. So you can just drag in whole batches of images over to this panel here and then they'll appear in this sort of tiled format. There is another view however that you can have. So if you double click on any of it image, this is just a sample from the app. If you double click on it, then it will load the image up full screen and you can also just change between the views either a single image or a tiled view over there. There's also a tray that you can pop out where you can create presets but I'll come onto those shortly. And then there's also a sound tab here, a little speaker. And that is, I don't know if this is going to come through actually but you've got these different music that plays in it. I'm not quite sure why. So it's just a little feature. It's a very strange feature but it's called a Zen track and you can have that playing in the background while you're doing your image editing. I'm not sure I'll leave that on to be honest. I might just choose my music elsewhere but it is there nevertheless. I'm not quite sure of the origin of that or why it's in there but it is there anyway if you like that sort of thing. So whilst we're in the settings by the way I should say there are little interface sounds like the little swooshes and swishes as you activate things. So you can choose to have those on or off. You can also choose between light or dark or automatic and automatic will just match the whether your system is on light or dark. And then you've also got the default view. So as I mentioned, it starts in that grid view but you can also have it default to the editor view. And then you can also change the icon for the dock. The effects I'll come on to because that's basically toggling on or off some specific effects that you can have in the panels here but we'll come on to that in a moment. So what we've got here essentially we've got this slider to slide between the different effects that we're adding on. It'll become apparent shortly. And then up in the top corner here we've got the original. So that's the original file size and the original image size. And then over here you've got the exported image size and file size as well. So basically down this side we've got a series of different things. So resizing, adjustments, effects and so on. So if as you toggle these on or off it basically opens and expands the panel so that we can enter some more details. So now I've toggled on the resize panel. We can either change it by width. So if we've just got a maximum width that we want to fix the images to we can do that here. You can also set a maximum height or a maximum overall size in terms of pixels. You can have percent so it'll be just a percentage of the original. And what you'll see is as I'm changing that it changes this little file size. So if I make it even smaller you'll see that we're around and then there we go, it's even smaller. So that is how you can adjust it there. Or you can just have free size where you put in a specific size in terms of dimensions there like that. So obviously if you're resizing things for the web or wherever it is then this is a good way to do that. Next we've got adjustments. So this says enhance image details. So here we can change things like CPA, the monochrome, add blur and so on sharpen the image, vibrance and what have you. And as you can see it's just sort of changing all of those in the preview. And then you can obviously use this slider to slide across to see the full effect of it. You can also change the way that this is done. So at the moment we've got this little toggle on here which looks like a little split screen icon. But if you want you can go over to this view where in fact, let me toggle that one off. You can go to this view where basically you see the whole image having been affected by the changes you've made. And then if you want to just see what the original was like by comparison you click and hold the little I and then it goes back to the original and then back to the changed version again. And then again, you put that slider on you can just swap between this view. So then we go to the next one down is effects. And here if I toggle that on then we've got some sorts of filters like you might be familiar with sort of Instagram style filters predefined in here. So you can choose one of those or toggle it back off again. You can also add some borders. So there is a limited number of border styles basically. So this is styles around the edge of the image. So there you go. That's how many about eight or 10. And then there is you can get some more border styles as well from here. So that will go online to fetch them. Next is the watermark. So you can add a watermark and it's defaulted to my name. There we go. But you can't add image watermark. So you can't do as far as I can tell you can't do image watermarks where you're gonna add like a logo or something like that over it using this. But then you can change the text and then you can also change the color. And then also you can change like the position. So bottom right, but you can also have it at bottom center, bottom left, middle, so on top left or you can have it diagonal or fitting the screen and what have you. And then also you can change the size and the offset. So that's offset if I'm on the corner and it's gonna offset it from the corner further. And then also the opacity of it you can change that as well. You can also change the font obviously by clicking into the thing. You can change the font to be whatever font you want and the font weight. And then you can also change the color here as well. If you want to add on multiple different watermarks text watermarks, you can click this plus sign here. I'll take that off. And then you've also got the compression. So you can change the file format and then the compression. You can change that here. Next we've got the metadata. So you can choose whether you want to preserve the GPS location and the camera model, which is a lot of people don't actually realize this that this data is embedded in photographs. And so if you are sharing photographs online that are maybe sensitive, location sensitive, you might wanna strip out the GPS location. A lot of people don't realize that that is actually embedded into the photo. So it's often a good idea to take that out. Next is renaming. So if you want to do batch renaming of the files, so you can add a either prefix suffix or replace the text entirely with something there. And then you can change the case of it and also decide what to do with white space. So if you've got gaps in the file names, either remove it or replace it with either a hyphen or an underscore. Next is the dates. So you can either retain the date created or date modified or strip those out entirely. And then next is the export. So you can choose where to export the images to and you can choose a location and then choose whether you want to overwrite the existing files or not. And then simply click on export to export the images. Now, if I come back to this little side tray that we had over this side, if I click on that one, then you can also, once you've set all of these things up if you've got a specific preset that you use regularly for uploading to your website or wherever it is, then you can actually just click on this plus button and create a website, not a website, create a preset. So I'll just call this preset and save that. And so that means then that now we've got this preset saved. So whenever I drop new images in, if I want to apply that or one of the other presets that I create, then I can just simply do that in there. So that is in a nutshell. All there is to the app. So it's a little 10 minute video because there's not much to learn in it as such, but it is such a great app and it certainly replaces, like I say, picturesque. If anybody used to use that one and was looking for a replacement, this certainly is it. And definitely check out the set up bundle as well. And that's a great way to get this app. If you have found this useful, then as always, please like and subscribe and don't forget to share this video with anyone else who you think may find it useful. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to leave a link to my set up playlist over on the right hand side with all the other great apps that you can get as part of the set up bundle. So I'll see you there. Have a great day.