Comments on: Resize images with Automator

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:33:57 +0000

So glad this helped you Sonia.

I’m not sure what you’re asking – in my Tip I show how to set the longest side to be a certain size in pixels, eg 480.

If you want the width to be 480 and the height to vary then you’ll need to run through your sets of images separately – those that are portrait and those that are landscape to give you more control.

Does that help?

Cheers,

Miraz

By: Sonia Helbig

Sonia Helbig — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:13:19 +0000

Thanks heaps for your advice! Clear steps and I followed this and used automator to easily resize a header for my blog: http://perthweightloss.com

You made something people were telling me to buy Photoshop to do into a 5 minute task until I got the resize correct.

Is there an easy way to use automator to set width for pictures rather than just pixel resize?

Thanks!

Sonia

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:50:03 +0000

If you don’t want to deal with the hassle of Automator and just want something that works right out of the box then you should try ImageXY.

Automator & hacked together scripts are fine for some, but you soon run into trouble when trying to explain stuff like this to your Mom.

By: ryanchaitram

ryanchaitram — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:03:33 +0000

Thanks man ….

The step to “get selected finder items” didn’t work for me as automator kept timing out but I understood what you were suggesting so i used “get specified finder items” instead … .thanks for this … this was my first workflow and the instrustions were clear

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:18:58 +0000

I’ve re-created and updated the workflow, and amended the link in the Post above. On testing, it downloaded and expanded correctly for me.

Thanks so much for pointing out this problem.

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:30:46 +0000

Thanks for letting me know. I’ve just tested it and am also having problems.

I’ll see if I can sort it out and upload a fresh copy – probably in the next couple of days.

By: Mayank

Mayank — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:19:29 +0000

I cannot extract your workflow, sates: unable to unarchive “filename” error 1 – operation not permitted. Something wrong on my end or the file?

just letting you know.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:21:00 +0000

I’m trying to get Automator (OSX SL) to batch resize my photos which are all in specific folders and sub folders.

eg: Honda> Honda Civic

The workflow I constructed is:

1. Get Specified Finder Items
2. Get Folder Contents
3. Scale Images

In this way, I was hoping I can batch scale my 21,000 photos. However, automator kept popping up a message that says:

(Image events got an error. Can’t get image “filenameofimage.jpg”. (-1728) )

And automator will stop after that. It happens randomly, even if I tried doing only one folder at a time.

However, most of the time if I do it one folder at a time, the second round will then proceed without any problems at all.

This is driving me nuts knowing I have to manually do folder by folder whenever this random problem comes up.

Help is very much appreciated.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:11:55 +0000

Good day,

I’m trying to get Automator (OSX SL) to batch resize my photos which are all in specific folders and sub folders.

eg: Toyota > Toyota Corolla

The workflow I constructed is:

1. Get Specified Finder Items
2. Get Folder Contents
3. Scale Images

In this way, I was hoping I can batch scale my 21,000 photos. However, automator kept popping up a message that says:

Image events got an error. Can’t get image “filenameofimage.jpg”. (-1728)

And automator will stop after that. It happens randomly, even if I tried doing only one folder at a time.

However, most of the time if I do it one folder at a time, the second round will then proceed without any problems at all.

This is driving me nuts knowing I have to manually do folder by folder whenever this random problem comes up.

Help is very much appreciated.

By: Miraz

Miraz — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:00:35 +0000

Linda, I can’t see why that would happen, unless you were also using a ColorSync Profile action. Even so, perhaps it’s some problem with the color profile?

I suggest you try the Apple Support forums for more help.