TECHCHICK99  I was looking for a small app to help me crop and resize pictures and one of my colleagues recommended ImageWell. And yes, it is simple, easy and quickly done.

The only thing that I really don't understand: Why do you guys hide the save button? I always have to search for it. GUI could be optimized in terms of usabilty.  
(Version 3.7.3)

AMANDACREAM  Awesome screen shot app. Most versatile for my needs on the market. Is a must have along with Snitch and Jing. The Pro version is worth every penny and then some.  
(Version 3.7)

VOLLARE  Downloaded it yesterday and can't understand why this is called a "hot pick" here on macupdate?

There are lot of other apps which offer the same, some for free, as mentioned here in the comments.

Tried "Thumbs Up" and it works great, so what's up here?

ImageWell a "hot pick"???  
(Version 3.7)

RPAEGE  With the exception of drag and drop thumbnail creation, ImageWell beats Thumbsup! hands down.

Imagewell allows more manual control than Thumbsup!, and that is a major plus.

Thumbsup! has a fatal flaw — if you drop a multipage PDF file onto it the resulting thumbnail will be of the second page of the document, not the first. This renders it impractical for production work.

ImageWell, on the other hand, offers much more reliable and robust processing, with a responsive devoloper.

Thumbsup!'s developer seems not to care too much — which is forgivable given that his app is free.

Imagewell could be vastly improved if it took Thumbsups!'s drag and drop capability and fixed it so it actually works properly with PDF files.

-1 to ImageWell for lack of drag and drop mode. +5 for ease of use, value and stability.

This is simply the best quick editor available.  
(Version 3.7)

FFASS  ImageWell works great for my needs. It's a WYSIWYG resizer, so you can see your image resize as you drag a slider. I've used many of it's features: adding borders & text to images, grouping multiple jpegs together to make a single jpeg, and even adding cartoon speech balloons. It can also save your PDF and PSD docs as jpeg, tiff, or png files. There's a bit of a learning curve to use all of it's features so maybe there's a way the developer can simplify the controls or make the controls more obvious (maybe use an inspector palette so the controls are always visible somewhere). Well worth the $20 since I use it quite often.  
(Version 3.5.3)

BRUMM  20 DOLLARS ....OR just FREE as in BEER:

The best resizer I've found for Mac is the FREEWARE 'ThumbsUp',

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11898/thumbsup

ThumbsUp can not only create thumbnails or icons for images and movies.

ThumbsUp goes far beyond, it's a superfast batch image resizer, a format converter (for example jpg to tiff, etc.) and ThumbsUp can sharpen (!) and antialias (!) the images (not only the thumbs as falsly stated in the manual) and can do all that in one fast step.

...and yes, ThumsUp is FREEware.  
(Version 3.5.3)

NOSFERATU  Oh, I have forgotten:

I would be fair to split the reviews for the new payware version from the old freeware version, most high star ratings were given for the freeware version.

I've downloaded this app cause of it high rating, but afterwards as I see the reviews, the most people rated the freeware such high, that seems not very fair if I think of the competitors.

I would be like "at first I make it freeware to get friendly and highrated reviews and then I switch to payware with all the good old freeware reviews staying".

That's hardly fair!

I am no competitor, only a user but I don't want to be tricked in any way. I think many visitors are using the star rating for the first orientation, like I did.

Freeware is rated more friendly of course, so I think it would be fair from this sites admins to correct that. It is misleading and a bit of unfair competition now.

I will try now the apps listed under "OTHER PEOPLE SUGGEST" but that's not the same as a fair comparison would be.  
(Version 3.5.3)

NOSFERATU  Not that bad, but would better if the intial dialog window would be bigger and resizable.

All the features are so disorganized and hard to use, for example to sharpen a resized image you need to go to an extra second dialog window each time and edit it there. That seems a bit stupid to me, because if you make an image smaller (first dialog window) it nearly _always_ needs a bit sharpening (second dialog window). That's _one_ step: Resizing & Sharpening, - but in ImageWell you have to go throu _two_ dialog windows just for that.

And I don't like the image editing tools (contrast, etc.) to be inside the edit window, they are to small, you can't handle that tiny sliders there if you have a high screen resolution.

You make to big steps if you move the slider only a bit. To use the sliders in a sensitive way, they need to be longer, I would put them in a moveable tool palette (Here is the place for a second window, just combine the first two dialog windows into one resizable window and put the tools in a floating window.)

The next thing I don't like is the long time till you see changes, the time it needs to redraw and show your changes is far to long. If I drag a slider I want to see the changes immediatly.

Next: All is so tiny, is this app designed for 640 x 480 screens?, It's an OS X app, who uses such small screen resolutions on OS X?

And, very important: where is the tool for correcting the white balance? Only contrast, saturation, brightness, but on many images you need to change the white point a bit. That basic feature is missing completely in ImageWell.

My conclusion: ImageWell is to disorganized for me and on big screens not useable, the app needs a redesign for a faster and better workflow.

I stay with GrahicConverter (Althought I hate GrahicConverter's interface as well) because I get so much more for a little bit more money. And for the smaller tasks I use the fantastic freeware PhotoToolCM (to poor that I can only use it on my PPCs, I would prefer to pay the 20 dollars to the developer of PhotoToolCM if he would make it Intel-ready.).

That's my review, like it or not.  
(Version 3.5.3)

FREDDUCKER  It does a great job for cropping pictures. At least there's an option so that your pictures don't come out all squeezed, and the free trial lets you do what you need to see the program with no restrictions.

I had thumbnails to create, and I'm really happy I found it, it should be given consideration. Great app.  
(Version 3.5.3)

KPE  I bought this to add a watermark to geotagged photos I wanted to upload to flickr. I didn't realize that is strips out EXIF data. As is, Imagewell is useless to me. I should have spent more time with the demo before I bought.  
(Version 3.5.3)