But then I started watching how professionals in other fields work.
I considered my dalliances into tool-making to be a distraction, and I was impatient with tasks like balancing a gimbal or leveling dolly track. I used to think that the “work” of work was the creative mouse-moving or pencil-pushing or camera-clicking. Read the rest of the hint for the details.A few years ago, filmmaker and Chief Creative Officer of Red Giant Stu Maschwitz wrote a fantastic blog about his opinion that Automation is the work.
Between the two of them, the end result was a very effective AppleScript. This time, it was Doug Adams, of Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes fame (300+ free iTunes AppleScripts). I then took a shot at adding the requisite file handling bits, but again my abilities with AppleScript turned Sal's work into a muddled mess. He didn't want to have to launch Photoshop or Graphic Converter, nor specify the parameters every time he just wanted a fast and easy resizer to his chosen dimensions (120 pixels wide by the required scale length).īeing the AppleScript expert that I am (ha!), I quickly chose the "phone a real expert" option and sent an email to Sal Soghoian, who was kind enough to respond with some very elegant resizing code. Although there are probably 1,500 apps out there that resize images, none seemed to do exactly what he wanted: drag an image onto an app, have it scale it to a predefined size, then save the file with a new name. My friend (and primary author of the two Unix chapters in the new Woof Book) Kirk McElhearn was looking for a simple way to resize images for his Kirkville website.
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