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Creating a triptych using Automator on a Mac

Creating a triptych using Automator on a Mac - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a triptych using Automator on a Mac

If you're using a Macintosh, you have another option for creating a triptych and that is use Apple's Automator. Automator is built into the Mac OS. It's a program that lets you create workflows that can control other applications. By default, Automator does not let you control Photoshop, but if you go to my website, robotphotoshop.com, you can get a collection of Automator actions that let you drive Photoshop from Automator. I offer two packages. One is free and the other is $20 and includes a lot of extra functionality. Now, you may think, why would I bother with using Automator to control Photoshop, when Photoshop has its own built-in actions? Well, Automator gets you some things that you can't do in Photoshop. First of all, I can control multiple applications from within a single workflow. So, for example, I could build a workflow that processes images in Photoshop and then takes the results and copies them to another server or drops them into InDesign or uploads them to an FTP…

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