TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – The scorching summer continues. I don’t even know when the rainy season ended in the Tokyo area. Has it ended? Anyway, I had double releases at the end of the last month. And I’m having another round of double releases. The first one to go is called Angry Images.

Apple’s Preview is getting more and more difficult to use, do you agree? When I first used it at the turn of the century, it was amazing. Well, that’s more than 20 years ago. Nowadays, when you save a translucent PNG image as a JPEG file to disk, it won’t automatically have a white background. I know the workaround. You have to export it as a PNG file without the alpha option, first. You then grab that PNG file and export it as a JPEG file. That’s too much trouble for just having a white background over the transparent area in a JPEG image, isn’t it? The worst part of Preview is that you can end up destroying the original file unless you consciously choose Duplicate under File to make a duplicate right at the beginning.

Angry Images offers missing pieces that old software titles used to have: Don’t destroy original files without asking! Angry Images is designed not to overwrite existing files wherever you decide to save new images. And it won’t destroy your original image files. If you just want to have a white back layer behind a translucent image, all the steps you have to take is (1) drag and drop files onto the application window (2) select JPEG as an export format from a drop-down menu (3) click on Export All and select a volume or a folder where to save new images. That’s all. Do you need more steps for that?

Another reason for Angry Images to come into existence is that Preview doesn’t let you change the hue level and the saturation level of an image. Angry Images lets you change the hue level, the saturation level, the brightness level and the contrast level of an image. On top of these color variations, you can set a new image size individually if necessary when you have multiple images listed.  

Tom Bluewater

Tom Bluewater

Features

1. Drag and drop one or more image files directly onto the application window.
2. Click on the Resize button for the corresponding image and set a new image size. If necessary, turn on the ‘Apply the size change to all images’ checkbox button to apply the same new size to other image files.
3. Click on the Color button to change the color level (hue, saturation, brightness, contrast) of the the corresponding image.
4. Additionally, click on the Color button to have a color background layer on a translucent image.
5. See a final image in a large frame.
6. Save all images with new sizes and color altering levels to disk with a click of a mouse button and select a volume or a folder.
7. Select the file extension name of an HEIC image from a list of heic, heics, hif.
8. Select the file extension name of a JPEG image from a list of jpeg, jpg.
9. Select the file extension name of a JPEG 2000 image from a list of jp2, j2k, jpf, jpx.
10. Select the file extension name of a TIFF image from a list of tif, tiff.
11. Select your own default open-file folder for this application.
12. Select your own default save-file folder for this application.
13. Choose to overwrite or not to overwrite existing files.
14. The application supports both retina and non-retina screens.
15. Share a final image after resized and color levels altered with other applications with a click of a mouse button.
16. Languages: English only.
17. Application file size: 7.6 MB.
18. The application comes with a built-in 12-page quick guide. Click on the Quick guide button at the at the startup screen.

System requirements

1. macOS 13.5 (Universal)

Limitations

1. The user can select and open as many as three image files at a time without the ‘Infinite number of images’ in-app purchase.
2. This application is originally designed for an Apple chip (M1, M2, M3) machine. If you have a machine with an Intel chip, you may encounter some unexpected side effects that cannot be overcome programatically through Xcode.

Version history

Nothing so far…



Trial/Demo version

There is no trial or demo version available since the application is available for free.



Video tutorial

There is no video tutorial at this time.



Privacy policy

This application does not collect privacy data from its users. It does not share any type of data with a third party.



Angry Images is a product of Tomato Software.
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