If you run into any problems, feel free to ask for help in the comments. It’s easy – just dragging and dropping Actions like we did above. If you come up with something interesting, share with us in the comments below.Ĭhallenge Accepted: If you’re looking for a challenge, how about this – create a workflow that takes any new photo added to a designated folder, automatically resizes it, and deposits the copy to another folder. So go on exploring, drag in Actions, try to see if they work by pressing the Play button in the app. Keep Experimenting with AutomatorĪutomator has many Actions and supports a majority of built-in (and some third party) apps. Here you can select the folder where you want the resized image to be copied. This will add a Copy Finder Items menu in the workflow. If you don’t want to mess with the original files, choose Add when Automator asks you if you want to copy finder items. The images will be instantly edited and resized without you having to open any kind of extra tool. Now, select any number of image files in question, right-click, hit Services, and select the workflow we just made. Select Save from the File menu and give the workflow a name. Change the pixel size from 480 to anything you want. The Scale Images section will show options for resizing images. In this example, we’re going with Don’t Add. If you want to keep the originals, select Add. Now search for an item that says Get selected Finder Items and drag it to the Workflow view. Search for Scale Images and do the same.Īutomator will now ask if you want to create a copy of the file before it is modified. To specify that we’ll be working with images, select Image files from the dropdown menu beside Service receives selected. You’ll now see the Library view listing apps, actions, and the workflow details. Choose New Document. Now from the Choose Type document, select Service. To get started, open the Automator app from the Applications folder. You’ll see a window asking you to open an existing document or create a new one. We’ll be using Services instead of folders so we can do this for images anywhere on the Mac.
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