Select a bunch of images in Aperture and run this script. It will ask you for a destination folder and create a text file corresponding to each selected image. This text file will contain all of the useful metadata that I could glean from an image using AppleScript.
Albums by Import Session Version 03 Developed & tested on Aperture 3.0.3 This AppleScript will ask the user to pick a Project and then proceed to create Albums based on the images’ import groups. These Albums will be placed into a Folder in the Project named “Import Groups” Albums by Import Session 03.scpt
Here is a simple AppleScript to use in an Automator Service to get LaunchBar to show the selected text in big type (like LaunchBar will do with phone numbers): on run {input, parameters} set theString to (“x-launchbar:large-type?string=” & (item 1 of input)) as string log theString open location theString return input end run Just set [...]
From its beginnings in Mac OS X Tiger, Automator has been getting rave reviews. Automator opens up automation for the non-technical and allows for practically anyone to create powerful workflows. Since I’ve been an AppleScripter since System 7 Pro I’ve never really used Automator much. I found its building blocks approach to be limiting and [...]
I believe that v4 should have resolved issues that some users were experiencing with v3 (http://brettgrossphotography.com/2008/03/04/aperture-applescript-make-keywords-real-v03) crashing Aperture. Make Keywords Real Current version: 04 Built on: Aperture 2.1 / Mac OS X 10.5.6 This AppleScript operates on the current selection. This is an update to the previous update and should work properly now. This AppleScript [...]
Wow… Sal’s AppleScript book (AppleScript 1-2-3) is real. More than that, it’s here: FedEx just dropped it off (oddly from a Penske truck…). Coauthored by Bill Cheeseman, the book is a brick. Thick as a brick, that is. It’s actually heavier than a regular brick. When I’d ordered it from PeachPit, I didn’t look at [...]
Aperture can export *some* of the metadata associated with your images quickly & easily. It can’t, however, reimport that data nor can it export all of the metadata from your images. Hence these AppleScripts. The first one will export the metadata for all selected file. It will save the data to a text file with [...]
I use Smart Playlists to load my iPhone. One of my smart playlists is songs that are rated 4 or 5 stars. Currently that amounts to 337 songs and 2.5GB. I don’t want to put 2.GB of music onto my iPhone (I do need room for photos, apps, movies, and audiobooks!). To limit the number [...]
I tend to buy stuff from the iTunes Store. I’ll bet that a lot of you do as well. I like iTunes’ backup ability, but I don’t need a backup of all of my music nor do I want to burn a stack of DVDs when I just purchased a couple of albums. Hence this [...]
A lot of people have asked me lately about mounting file servers based on certain user criteria. Usually this is based on whether or not a user is a member of certain user groups (faculty, graphics design, engineering…). This is actually a pretty easy task for a quick AppleScript and I’m going to present a [...]
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