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Photoshop and Automator

Photoshop and Automator

I really enjoy post production. There's something that happens in the editing and correction and printing. I, I feel like that's just where so much of image making happens. I, I really like that part of the photographic process. However, it's often very tedious and repetitive and repeats itself, over and over, again and again. Saying the same thing. But, you get the idea. Anyway, there is, if you are a Mac user, a technology you can use that can help speed up some of the just tedious part of post production. In this week's Practicing Photographer we're going to look at automator, a, an application and technology that's built into the Mac OS that you can exploit as a Photoshop user if you add on an extra little piece of software. So first a little history. In the gosh, mid 90s, Apple added a technology to the Mac OS called AppleScript. It's a little scripting language that sits below pretty much everything else you'd do on the OS. If you go into utilities folder in your application…

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