Ahhh, it’s it always nice when you come across something that cuts your work from minutes (or even hours) to milliseconds. It’s also nice when you come across a great solution just when you need it. I’ve decided to share two useful shortcuts. The first one is one for Photoshop which I’m always surprised more people don’t know about (even semi-advanced users). The second one is specifically for Mac in this case, but I am sure there is a plethora of small apps out there that will do the same thing in Windows.
I’m guessing almost everyone out there, has at some point, needed to resize a folder full of photos. Whether it be a photographer, a web designer, a mom making an album, or a user posting to Facebook. In most cases, these people may or may not have access to Photoshop. If you do have access to Photoshop, there is a simple Image Processor, which in a few clicks, can resize, recolor, etc. a whole slew of photos. Simply follow these steps:
1. File
2. Scripts
3. Image Processor
4. Choose the folder were the images reside
5. Choose what you want to do (Resize, Change Extension, etc.)
6. Run
7. Sit back and smile as your images change in front of your eyes
Next. Name Mangler from Many Tricks (for OS X 10.5). They claim “renaming files has never been easier” and they are absolutely right. With Name Mangler all you do is select Folder, Folder Contents or Files and then drag and drop whatever it is you need to adjust. Soon as you do that, the files appear and next you need to select what you want to do: Find and Replace, Number Sequentially, Change Case, Set Extension, Add Prefix/Suffix, or Remove/Insert Characters. The app shows you what the current names are and what they will become. If you’re all set, you just click a check mark and presto!
These two items are specifically useful to me because I get clients who send me folder and folders of images to turn into photo galleries. I simply send them through the PS image processor with new size restraints and an extension preference. Then I can run them through the Name Mangler to change the extension case and set them to rename to sequential numbers. Once this is done, they are ordered and ready to be entered into an XML file. Tada!
