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by chrischen 2275 days ago
Wow nice. I was just about to cancel my Photoshop subscription because 1) I hate subscription pricing models and 2) I'm using it mostly just to resize images.

Nice to see that you have the Photoshop UI there so I don't have to relearn anything.

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I understand a professional not wanting to learn a new UI for something as complex as graphics editing, but if you are admittedly mostly using it to resize images, I can't imagine why any other tool, including the infamous Gimp, would be so hard to "learn"?
I think I was overstating the extent to which I only use it for resizing photos.
Why not use Preview? For most things, like resizing and cropping, and rotating, it just works
It doesn't do compression or format conversions.
It does do some format conversion and have some support for compression settings (if I understand you correctly). Under the File -> Export menu you can choose between some formats [0] and when applicable choose compression level, e.g for JPEG.

[0]: On my machine: HEIC, JPEG, JPEG-2000, OpenEXR, PDF, PNG, TIFF