Filed under: Photo, Features, Macintosh
Imaging Tip of the Day: Photoshop Automator Actions for OSX Tiger
by David Chartier Jul 19th 2005 at 11:00AM
If you're using Photoshop CS/CS2 on Mac OSX Tiger, have I got the treat for you: Photoshop Automator Actions. I'm already using a few of these myself (especially for my blogging work here) and I have to say: these actions - harnessing the power of Tiger's Automator functionality - are amongst the most powerful and productive apps and extras I've ever installed.Now make no mistake: these aren't workflows, they're actions you
install so you can build them into any workflow you want. Apply
filters, assign profiles, run an action, resize, fit and rotate to
arbitrary values.. these are just a fraction of what this divine suite
of automator actions has to offer.
Just for an example: I now have an Automator workflow I can trigger simply by right-clicking an image and chosing it from the context menu that will resize the image to desired proportions, optimize it for the web, fix its name (so it's web_ready) and then upload it to my FTP server - without me having to enter a name/pass at all.
Beautiful, simply beautiful. You can grab them at Automator World, and once you're done drooling go thank the authors, Complete Digital Photography, for an exceptional example of Automator + Photoshop productivity bliss!
Just for an example: I now have an Automator workflow I can trigger simply by right-clicking an image and chosing it from the context menu that will resize the image to desired proportions, optimize it for the web, fix its name (so it's web_ready) and then upload it to my FTP server - without me having to enter a name/pass at all.
Beautiful, simply beautiful. You can grab them at Automator World, and once you're done drooling go thank the authors, Complete Digital Photography, for an exceptional example of Automator + Photoshop productivity bliss!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
