A Resize for Web Finder Action
I have a lot of jpeg files on my hard drive that are straight off of a digital camera and need to be resized before uploading them. Even when using something like ImageCache, I don’t want to have 4meg jpeg files sitting on my server.
I was tired of opening them up in an image editor to resize them, so I put together an Automator script to take care of it for me. You can download and install too if you want.
Download Resize For Web and unzip the file into ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder/ (create the folder if you don’t have it.)
You use it by right clicking on an image in Finder, then clicking More > Automator > Resize For Web. You will be prompted to enter a width in pixels to resize the image to. Then it places your new file on the Desktop, leaving the old one intact. As a bonus, it also replaces spaces in the file name with underscores on the new file.
Enjoy.