Mac photo renamer and resizer manual#

I ended up choosing the “Ask for Finder Items” action to make sure I could double-check the files I’m passing to Automator while I could have just told the workflow to automatically fetch the items that I had selected beforehand, I wanted a quick way to confirm the images that needed resizing. I feel like Automator is vastly underrated these days, and it actually comes with several options to interact with selected Finder items. The first step was to create an Automator workflow to duplicate all my images at once, reisizing them to 650 pixels, and appending “_small” to their filename. I decided to fix this before the Apple earnings call because I knew Excel was going to export our charts as large PNGs – but, mostly, because it really didn’t make sense to keep on manually clicking menus and selecting sizes after all these years of writing for MacStories.

Mac photo renamer and resizer manual#

Until last month, the process of duplicating the larger image and saving it to a smaller size was entirely manual – something that, I later realized, was surprising considering I try to automate as many aspects of my daily workflow as possible. In either case, images are uploaded to our CDN with Cyberduck, which I have been using for years and that has never failed me. When I create images for MacStories, I either keep them at a single size between 600 and 650 pixels, or use two separate versions: the original larger size, and a smaller one that links to the full version. A few weeks ago, while I was preparing my coverage of Apple’s Q2 2013 earnings call, I grew tired of my system to resize and rename images on OS X, so I rebuilt it from scratch using Automator, Name Mangler 3, and TextExpander.