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Hi there,

I'm a new Hazel user and I'm trying to automate my film scanning batch workflow with Hazel to do the following:

Scan dumps TIFF on desktop which Hazel picks up and checks which device it came from. If a certain scanner, it needs to resize and scale down the DPI then import into Aperture.

Most of it I have running apart from the resize part as I know it needs a Photoshop Applescript which I really cannot figure out. Right now I have this which doesn't compile

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tell "Adobe Photoshop CS4"
   open theFile   
   tell theDocument
      activate
      resize image theDocument resolution 1600 resample method bicubic
      save
   end tell
end tell

But I admit, I don't really know what I am doing at this stage having never used Applescripts. Help would be appreciated.

Also, it will probably be a really slow process having PS open just to resize. Is there another way of automating a resize - perhaps with Quartz? or a command line tool?

Thanks

Dan

First off, please don't post questions to the tips forum. See the sticky article at the top of that forum indicating that.

I don't have an answer for you since I don't use PS but I suggest you search the forums as someone else might have already done this. Probably using something like imagemagick, I'm guessing.

danfascia wrote:Hi there,

I'm a new Hazel user and I'm trying to automate my film scanning batch workflow with Hazel to do the following:

Scan dumps TIFF on desktop which Hazel picks up and checks which device it came from. If a certain scanner, it needs to resize and scale down the DPI then import into Aperture.

Most of it I have running apart from the resize part as I know it needs a Photoshop Applescript which I really cannot figure out. Right now I have this which doesn't compile

Code: Select all

tell "Adobe Photoshop CS4"
   open theFile   
   tell theDocument
      activate
      resize image theDocument resolution 1600 resample method bicubic
      save
   end tell
end tell

But I admit, I don't really know what I am doing at this stage having never used Applescripts. Help would be appreciated.

Also, it will probably be a really slow process having PS open just to resize. Is there another way of automating a resize - perhaps with Quartz? or a command line tool?

Thanks

Dan

You don't even need photoshop as the mac already has a command line tool to convert and resize images which works great with hazel.

sips -- scriptable image processing system.

I just run this shell script from within hazel:

sips -s format jpeg -s formatOptions 40 -z 750 500 "$1"

eg. This converts the image to jpeg at low quality (40) and resizes to 750x500 (ignoring aspect ratio)

The instructions are easy and shown below. It may not have all the bells and whistles of photoshop but it has plenty of command line options.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac ... ips.1.html

Cool. Didn't know about this myself. Thanks for the tip.