TINYenormous – Build it up to break it down again

I’m a big fan of sitting back and watching my computer do mindless things for me. Applescript and photoshop actions are two big things on my list. (Sorry windows users, you’ll have to find some other kind of “glue”)

I just set up a workflow for posting pix that makes me pretty dang happy. I have a droplet made out of photoshop that saves all of my images to a folder on my desktop. It performs an action that converts them all to 300×400 and “saves for web” jpeg medium.

Next up I have an applescript app that uploads any files I drop onto it to my images folder via ftp.

This is what the script looks like.

on open doc
tell application “Fetch”
activate
make new transfer window at beginning with properties {hostname:”ftp.youraddress.com”, username:”username”, password:”password”}
open remote item “directory/to/your/html/image”
put into transfer window “ftp.youraddress.com” item doc
close window “ftp.youraddress.com — image”
end tell
end open

That’s about it. It saves me tons of time, and makes it less of a drag to put pix up, and that probably makes for a more readable blog.

In the future I’m thinking about making part of the applescript generate the code I need in order to post it. Yet another 3 buttons saved per photo. This wysisyg stuff can get real old some times…

I’m also gonna whip up a fetch script to upload videos, and a sorenson squeeze droplet to do auto compressing for me.

Maybe i’ll go so far as to make the folder that photoshop saves to hooked up with a folder action, so I can save a step.