Batch Resize with Automator
I recently did a lot of looking around for something around the same lines as Microsoft’s “PowerTools” app that allowed me in Vista to select any amount of photos at one time, right click, and resize to a suitable size for e-mail, facebook, myspace, etc.
This can be easily done in Automator 2.0.1. Let’s check it out, aye?
STEP 1
Open finder, and choose to create a custom list. On the far left in the “Actions” box, the Library section should already be expanded. Select Files & Folders, which will bring a different category to the next box on your right. Find “Rename Finder Items” and drag into onto the work flow. You should now get pop up asking if you want to throw a Copy Finder Items in there. You do. So click Add.
STEP 2
In the Copy Finder Items area, choose where you want to save your re-sized files. Moving down in the Rename Finder Items, choose Add Text from the drop-down and use something to indentify your resized images (I used “RESIZED”. The Irony.);
STEP 3
Go back to your far left, under the library expansion and select Photos. Now scroll all the way down and you’ll see Scale Images. Drag it onto the workflow. You’ll get asked again if you want to put a Copy Finder Items in the equation, but this time you don’t because we already copied them. So click Don’t Add. Now in the Scale Images portion of the work flow, let’s select percentage from the drop-down list, then enter 50 in the text area beside it. This will resize your images to half of their original size (of course.)
STEP 4
Go to File > Save as Plugin, name your Resizer (I prefer “Resizer”) and click save. Now select a group of your pictures that you want to resize, command-click (or “right-click”) and go to More > Automator > Resizer - and that’s that.
