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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
Mr. Long also notes that he hasn't included new actions for any of Photoshop CS3's new features - those are coming in a future release.

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]

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...
 

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William Jessup

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.

May 23 2007 at 11:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jman

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.

May 22 2007 at 2:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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