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Photoshop Automator Action Pack updated to version 3.5 with CS3 support
I have rekindled my love for Automator and all things automation lately. If you can find any way to fit these tools into your workflow, I highly recommend exploring your options - including Ben Long's just-updated Photoshop Automator Actions pack. This collection of 86 actions has just hit v3.5, bringing support for Photoshop CS3 and a fresh batch of new features, such as:
- New Auto Color action - executing Photoshop's Auto Color command which puts the control in Photoshop's hands, but allows you to pass the image(s) along to another process without interacting with any kind of dialog or making manual adjustments by hand
- Add Watermark can now center and rotate watermarks
- Saving TIFF files now includes all the standard compression options
- bug fixes and more
The beauty of this pack of Automator actions is that they bring Photoshop's automation abilities into the rest of Mac OS X, allowing you to create workflows that pass anything you do in Photoshop on to another app. For example: you could build a workflow that grabs a folder of 200 images, auto-color correct them in Photoshop, add comments and metadata, import them into iPhoto, upload a copy to Flickr and then archive them all to a CD or DVD.
All with a mere double-click.
Ben Long provides his actions as donationware and asks for a very basic set of optional information to help gauge his audience and where he should take development.
[via PhotoshopSupport]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jman said 2:58PM on 5-22-2007
It's 'Flickr' and 'gauge', not 'Flick' and 'gage'.
I know, I know, I'm picky, but some things are simply bothersome to a reader.
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William Jessup said 11:10AM on 5-23-2007
I would never automate the 'auto color' of images. You will have varied results from image to image. Automation of size and DPI works well, but when it comes to color, contrast, etc., it is best to perform these tasks individually if I am concerned about the output of each image.
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