Open finder and locate your pictures.  Select the photos you want to resize, by highlighting them.

Take note of the photos file sizes to the right.

Right-click on one of the selected photos > Open With > Preview



In Preview > Edit > Select All (to select all the open photos.




Once selected, Tools > Adjust Size...



In the resize menu window, click the Fit Into: Drop down box and select 1024 x 1024, then hit OK




The photos should resize and look smaller, they may look very small after but they have been resized to about 8 x 10 inch size.  You can not close out Preview.



All the photo sizes should be smaller now.