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Automator ist ein umfangreicher und überaus vielversprechender Teil des aktuellen Mac OS X Tiger. Mittels vorgegebenen Aktionen ist es dem Benutzer möglich, eigene Arbeitsabläufe zu speichern. Dies bietet sich an, wenn man Aufgaben immer und immer wieder vornimmt. Eine möglicher Ablauf ist z.B. das automatische Verkleinern und Schärfen eines Fotos mit anschliessendem Upload auf einen Webserver. Aktionen für Automator müssen programmiert werden und wie immer gibt es unglaublich fleissige und talentierte Menschen, die ihre Kreationen auch noch ganz kostenlos ins Netz stellen.

So z.B. Ben Long, der fast täglich neue Photoshop Automator Actions für Photoshop CS und Photoshop CS2 zum Download bereit stellt. Das Set umfasst die folgenden Aktionen, mit denen Automator angetrieben werden kann.nn

• Arbitrary Rotate, which rotates an image by any amount (as opposed to the 90° increments provided by Preview’s Rotate command).
• Change Mode, which lets you change the mode of a document to any of Photoshop’s standard modes.
• Flatten Document, which flattens a layered file.
• Unsharp Mask, which provides access to Photoshop’s standard Unsharp Mask plug-in.
• Gaussian Blur, which provides access to Photoshop’s standard Gaussian Blur.
• NTSC Colors, which applies Photoshop’s NTSC Colors filter.
• De-Interlace, which applies Photoshop’s De-Interlace filter.
• Monochrome Gaussian Noise, which applies Photoshop’s Add Noise filter, with Gaussian and monochrome hard-wired. The Amount value is editable.
• Close Document. Closes the currently open document.
• Edit IPTC Info.
  Lets you edit the basic IPTC information – Document Title, Author,
  Author Title, Description, Description Writer, Keywords, Copyright
  Status, Copyright Notice, Copyright Info URL. (This is a very simple
  action to write, so I’m open to requests if someone needs additional IPTC fields.)
• Flip Canvas. Applies Photoshop’s Flip Canvas command. Provides options for Vertical, Horizontal, or Both.
• Auto Levels. Applies Photoshop’s Auto Levels command.
• Desaturate. Desaturates the current document.
• Despeckle. Applies Photoshop’s Despeckle filter.
• Clouds. Applies the Clouds filter.
• Save as TIFF. Saves the current document as a TIFF file. (Updated on 5/3/05)
• New Photoshop Document. Creates a new, empty Photoshop document of a specific size.
• Do Action. Executes one of Photoshop’s internal Actions.
• Rename from EXIF. Renames a file based on its EXIF information. Updated: 5/6/05 9:24 am. Fixed a bug that was causing some EXIF tags to not come through into the file name. Updated: 5/7/05 12:33 am. Added options for changing separator characters and placement of EXIF info.
• Open. Opens a Photoshop document.
• Invert. Inverts the current document.
• Load Selection. Loads an existing selection.
• Deselect. Deselects in the current document.
• Fit Image.
  Executes Photoshop’s Fit Image script which automatically constrains an image within particular dimensions. Ideal for batch scaling images to particular dimensions without having to perform separate operations for portrait and landscape images. Requires that you activate GUI Scripting, using the new AppleScript Utility located in Applications>AppleScript.
• Filter From EXIF. Filters the current batch of pictures based on EXIF criteria. Allows you, for example, to only process images shot at a particular ISO.