Filed under: iLife, OS, Tips and tricks
Automate your Life Poster
We first wrote about Mike Matas' Life poster way back in January, but you just can't keep a good idea down. Jim Heid saw this idea, and wanted to make it better. But how can one improve on such a cool idea? Jim sat down at his Mac running OS 10.4 and it hit him. Make the life poster easier to make and it'll be... well, easier to make. Automator was just what Jim needed, and so he went to work to create a workflow that would do most of the nitty gritty work for you. I think it would be nice if the workflow could do even more, like let you pick the 96 photos on the fly, but I think that is a limitation of Automator's and not of Jim's imagination.
Thanks, Jim, for sending this along.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dave Caolo said 4:23PM on 7-08-2005
SWEET!! Since reading the original post, I have made three, yes three, Life Posters and given them as gifts. The recepients always completely flip their lids over these things. They're the best. I have one matted and framed hanging in my office that follows, in chronological order, the day my wife and I found out we were pregnant all the way to last Christmas with our daughter.
Life Posters are the best. Hooray for this sweet Automator workflow.
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Mark Taylor said 4:26PM on 7-08-2005
Looks good, but the workflow stops on my system saying it only runs on "US English systems". Which is a shame. :-(
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Ryan said 10:23PM on 7-08-2005
I prefer MacOSaiX. It's the same - but completely different. After I make my mosaics, I usually layer the original "base" image over top with 30% opacity (or so).
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Marc Jones said 4:53AM on 7-10-2005
Hrump. US English only? What the hell? will try the alternative MacOSaiX as mentioned by the previous caller.
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bloodthirstyrobot said 2:23PM on 7-16-2005
Same problem here...even after I changed language prefs in System Pref from Canadian to US English. Is there a workaround to this?
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Dom M said 5:44PM on 7-10-2005
You might be able to select the 95 images on the fly since there is an iPhoto action for 'Ask for Photos' which allows you to hunt through your Library/Albums and highlight specific images without having to have iPhoto open.
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