Photoshop Automator Actions v4.0 Beta

June 4, 2009 by Ben Long
Filed under: Automator Actions 
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I was hoping to get a release of the Photoshop CS4 Automator Action Pack posted today, but for now, this beta will have to do. As near as I can tell, it’s completely usable and should work just fine, but I haven’t had a chance to test it very thoroughly, so I’d appreciate any bug reports. This 4.0 collection currently only supports CS4 and has a number of bug fixes, and 6 new actions.

Like previous versions of the Action Pack, this collection of Automator Actions lets you drive Photoshop from Apple’s Automater. These are not actions that you can run from within Photoshop’s Actions palette. This is a Mac-only product that allows you to build automated workflows that can go beyond what Photoshop’s built-in actions provide.

If you want to know more about the collection, check out the posting for the previous edition.

You can download the 11 mb Photoshop Action Pack for free using the link below. As mentioned in the installation section of the included manual, you might need to use this script to clear out your Automator action cache. See the manual for more details. If the Action Pack still doesn’t appear, then try this.

If you’d like to know more about Automator, check out Apple’s Automator pages.

Download the Photoshop CS4 Action Pack Beta in ZIP format (.zip)

 

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10 Comments on Photoshop Automator Actions v4.0 Beta

  1. Tim on Mon, 8th Jun 2009 11:03 pm

    2. Thanks Ben! I’ve been waiting for this one for a while. Thanks for all the great work that you’ve done on this project, its o gib help with workflow.

  2. Mathieu P. on Thu, 25th Jun 2009 5:14 am

    3. Hello Ben.
    Thanks for the usefull work you have done.
    But i still looking for the great action :
    “RENAME FROM IPTC”
    who disapear since Action Pack V2 for CS2. (this old pack do not work any more under CS4 and Intel 10.5)
    And none of the other actions of new Pack seems to do the job.
    Will you work on it ?

  3. singapore photographers on Tue, 30th Jun 2009 2:54 am

    4. wondering if it is resource intensive and will hog up the computer….

  4. Jeremy on Thu, 3rd Sep 2009 9:41 am

    5. Hi Ben,

    I’ve been a big fan of these actions. Very very handy for my not-too-photoshop-y interns. I am having a bizzare problem with the new beta, however. The ‘Resize’ action appears to actually do nothing. I have a very very basic workflow, with a selected finder item running through the ‘Open’ action, then the ‘Resize Image’ action (to 240 characters width, other values 0, ignoring if smaller, then to ‘Render’ with Save for Web as the only checked item, to jpg, saving in [original location] with name [original]_240 and the other jpg values set to defaults. This worked perfectly on my old 10.5 machine with CS3. On the new 10.6 machine, with CS4 and your beta actions, the automator actions runs correctly, but the ‘Resize Image’ does not actually resize anything. Render saves a copy of the original file, not the resized version. Any ideas?

  5. Martin Allaire on Sun, 11th Oct 2009 3:14 pm

    6. Hi Ben,
    I badly need the COPY DATA FROM IPTC. I lost it when I upgraded to CS4 and I have a bunch of pics to process from Namibia! Great shots on your African trip by the way.
    cheers

  6. Wolfram on Fri, 16th Oct 2009 10:08 am

    7. Hi Ben,

    sorry, as a glad user of the previous version, I wanted to try your BETA action pack for CS4, but the link to the ZIP doesn’t work at the moment. Can you help, please?

  7. Anjani on Fri, 30th Oct 2009 12:37 pm

    8. I want it.

  8. Eric J. Francois on Tue, 24th Nov 2009 5:43 am

    9. Excellent actions. However a quick bug report:
    - the resize image action does not work (passes without error, but doesn’t actually do anything)
    - rendering as PNG kills the alpha channel

  9. CCB on Sat, 5th Dec 2009 8:52 am

    10. Installer hangs (spinning wheel) on “select disk location”. I am guessing it is 10.5 vs 10.6 given date of release. Would love to use if it would install.

  10. andrew on Fri, 15th Jan 2010 6:09 pm

    11. hi,

    love the possibilities here. however, i was looking for a nice solution for filtering images by orientation, but when i run that action it just returns the same list of files that was input — regardless of orientation. I put in landscape, portrait, portrait; filter by landscape; returns landscape, portrait, portrait.

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