Automator Actions for Photoshop

Photoshop Automator Actions 3.7
http://www.completedigitalphotography.com/index.php?p=339
Photoshop Automator Actions is a package of Actions that lets you control many of Photoshop's most common functions from within Automator, letting you add Photoshop functionality to your Automator workflows.
I don't actually use Automator but thought these might be valuable for someone here.

Thank you, Welles. I've never used Automator either, but this looks like a great opportunity to explore it.

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Does Creative Cloud offer free filters/actions for Photoshop?

I have Adobe Creative Cloud and was wondering if they offered any free filters or actions for Photoshop? I'm still a beginner, but wanted to find some actions to try out on my photographs.
Thanks!

There are several that are included with photoshop, they are accessible by clicking on the small icon in the upper right hand corner of the actions panel. Also check out the Exchange (Which will be updated soon and will have a new URL)

Automator Actions for Photos

As you may know, Apple has not (yet, anyway) included any Automator actions for the new Photos app. However, there is a set available from the Mac OS X Automation web site that some may find useful, & there may be others available from other third party sources too.
If you are interested in such things, the Mac OS X Automation web site is a good place to start -- not only can you download the action set, the site includes descriptions & example workflows that should make it easy to see how they can be used.
If anybody knows of any other third party sets for Photos, I would appreciate it if you would post a reply about them here.
TIA!

That's pretty cool! Thanks!
Any idea why I might be getting the following output from my Get XML action? I am using the exact same information (shared secret, Admin credential, and Site URL) as for the other actions (that work just fine)...
<html>
<head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Indigo">
</head>
<body>
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this document on this server.
</body>
</html>

Downloading 'actions' for Photoshop - getting them to work?

Hi, I've downloaded one of the freeware 'actions' for Photoshop and saved it to the 'plug-ins' folder in the 'photoshop' folder but nothing seems to be appearing in Photoshop. Have I done this right? or do I need to move the 'action' elsewhere?I've downloaded plenty of fonts and they've all appeared on Photoshop fine.
Thanks for any help.

Dzr86 wrote:
Hi, I've downloaded one of the freeware 'actions' for Photoshop and saved it to the 'plug-ins' folder in the 'photoshop' folder but nothing seems to be appearing in Photoshop. Have I done this right? or do I need to move the 'action' elsewhere?I've downloaded plenty of fonts and they've all appeared on Photoshop fine.
Thanks for any help.
The plug-ins folder isn't the right place. Basically they just have to be in a known location but the normal one is in the Presets\Actions folder in the CS4 folder* under app data.
You then load them via the Actions palette drop-down menu.
* I couldn't be more specific because you didn't mention which OS.

Automator Actions for iTunes U ... Happy Monday Everyone!

I was inspired by Apple's Steve Hayman (the other, other Steve) to create a set of Automator actions for iTunes U. The first three are done and I have posted them:
http://itunes.uic.edu/woolamaloo-automator-actions.dmg.zip
The three actions are:
Upload Items to iTunes U -- takes a set of files from a previous action, uploads the content to iTunes U, given a target URL in which to place the content ("Copy iTunes URL" in iTunes and paste in to say where you want stuff to go).
Get iTunes U Daily Report Logs -- yes, now you can script logs!
Get iTunes U XML -- returns site XML, minimally, mostly, and maximally ... or just the XML from a handle. Send the results to a file, explore it at your leisure ... or modify the results to change your site.
More to come (promises, promises) ... but I wanted to get this out there for those who might find this useful. Oh yeah, I did include the briefest of brief manuals plus some sample workflows to give you an idea of how to use the actions.
Enjoy!

That's pretty cool! Thanks!
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<html>
<head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Indigo">
</head>
<body>
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this document on this server.
</body>
</html>

How can I edit an Automator action for Word?

I'm running Word 2008 on a Macbook Pro, Mac OS 10.5.
Word comes with a selection of Automator actions, including one to find and replace text in Word. I often want to convert standard numerals to old-style numerals, which are part of the extended glyphs set in fonts I use. Automator will allow me to set up ten find/replace actions (for the numbers 0-9) that successfully replace all the numerals with old-style numerals. But it only does it for the main body of the document, not for the footnotes. I need to be able to do it for all the footnotes.
I thought I might find a workaround by adding an AppleScript to my workflow, which would shift the focus in Word to the footnotes and rerun the find/replace actions. I mapped the menu item View/Footnotes to the keystroke command-) and inserted this AppleScript into the Automator workflow:
tell application "Microsoft Word"
tell application "Microsoft Word" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Word"
keystroke ")" using command down
end tell
end tell
end tell
But the find/replace actions simply repeat what they'd done before, converting the numerals in the main body but not in the footnotes. I then thought that perhaps I should have an AppleScript to do the find/replace itself, once the footnotes have been selected, so I created the following (command-H accesses the find/replace dialog box in Word 2008):
tell application "Microsoft Word"
tell application "Microsoft Word" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Word"
keystroke "H" using command down
keystroke "1"
keystroke tab
keystroke ""
end tell
end tell
end tell
The character after the fourth keystroke command is the glyph for old-style numeral 1. For some reason Word reinterprets this as the letter a. So using AppleScript I can only replace the numerals 1-9 with the letters a-i.
I'm pretty hopeless at even this very basic level of programming, but I presume that there's something in the Automator action 'Find and replace in Word' that specifically tells it not to look anywhere but the footnotes. I also presume it's possible to insert a command to tell it to operate on the footnotes (and headers and footers: everywhere!) too.
Does anyone know a way to edit an Automator action? I'm willing to experiment and fiddle with one until I find a way that works, if nobody knows the exact changes that I'd need to make, but I just don't know how to edit an Automator action in the first place. A bit of googling suggests that I could do it in XCode, and that that is bundled with my Mac, but I don't have it.
This all used to work when Office used to allow VBA (and I was using a horrible Windoze machine). Maybe someone would prefer just to find a way of creating a solution our of the old code, so here's one part of what I used (to change the number 1):
For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
With aStory.Find
.ClearFormatting
With .Replacement
.ClearFormatting
End With
.Execute FindText:="1", ReplaceWith:=ChrW(63281), _
Format:=True, MatchCase:=True, Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
Next aStory
Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks to all three contributors for their generous help so far. Mac people are lovely.
BDAqua's suggestion wouldn't work, I think, because copying footnote text into another application and then back into Word would lose all the associations between footnote references in the body and the footnotes themselves. I wish I could do what Klaus1 says, but Word 2008 won't allow the creation of Macros any more. They've shut off support for their creation. Nice MS. red_menace's suggestion seems very plausible and I'll look into a way of mapping the old style numerals to specific keystrokes. That might do it.
Reflecting on what you all said, I looked again through Word's help menus and eventually got pointed towards this page of 'help': <http://tinyurl.com/6398l6>. This is completely impenetrable for me, though it does compare a VBA script for Word 2004 to an AppleScript. This encourages me to hope that it should be possible to translate my original VBA script (part of which I included in my first message) into AppleScript, though I don't know how to do it because I don't really understand the language in the first place (the VBA script was put together by someone else).

How on EARTH to parameters work in AppleScript Automator Actions for SL?

Prior to Snow Leopard, creating a new AppleScript Automator Action would create a template something like...
on run{input, parameters}
but now, on Snow Leopard, I get:
on runWithInputfromAction_error(input, anAction, errorRef)
where to I get the 'parameters' collection from? If I just reference 'parameters', without it being declared in some way, I get errors....
I assume there is some new mechanism in SL, what is it??
Thanks

Sorry, I misunderstood what you said the first time around. I thought that you wanted to use the +Run AppleScript+ action within Automator but now I see that you are trying to create a new Automator action using applescript. Now that I try it in Xcode I to get the same method/handler signature. Tried to look at the [Mac Dev Center|http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/AppleApplications/C onceptual/AutomatorTutorialAppleScript/Introduction/Introduction.html] but it hasn't been updated lately. Also tried looking at the [Automator Programming Guide|http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Co nceptual/AutomatorConcepts/Articles/ImplementScriptAction.html#//apple_ref/doc/u id/TP40001512] and the documentation for [AMBundleAction|http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/AppleAppli cations/Reference/AutomatorFramework/Classes/AMBundleAction_Class/Reference/Refe rence.html] but can't figure anything out. Sorry I don't have much experience in Xcode, so can't help you much with that.

Automator Actions for Numbers?

Do they exist?
If so how can I install them?
If not are there applescript actions for numbers and where can I learn to use them?
Any info at all would be greatly appreciated

Hi Guyzs,
I'd like to create an action that will enable me to list my file names in Numbers, file type and date of creation and modification.
The thing is that I have 900 documents (PDFs, ppt, xls, doc, etc...) contained in folders and sub folders, to list one by one in Numbers, with 4 columns: file name (just the name, not the extension, to be in column A), file extension (with the DOT before the extension name, to be in column B), creation date (to be in column E) and last modification date (to be in column F).
I'm very new to Automator and Apple Scripts, as I only tried long time ago once or twice and miserably failed, while aided by tutorials.
Regards,
Fab'

Automator Actions for Pages

I just checked in Automator, and I can't find a single Pages Automator action.
With how useful it could be I can't fathom why there wouldn't be some built in.

I don't know about third-party actions created for them, but Automator does show some actions from Keynote. There no actions from Pages or Numbers in Automator when I review the listing.
Actions for Keynote include (21 total):
Add Chart to Slide
Add File To Slide
Add Slide to Keynote Presentation
Change master of Keynote slide
Close Keynote Presentation
Create Image Slide
Delete Slide
Extract Notes
Make New Keynote Presentation
Move Keynote slide
Open Keynote Presentations
Print Keynote Presentation
Quit Keynote
Save Keynote Presentation
Set Slide Title
Set Transition for Slide
Show Next Keynote Slide
Show Previous Keynote Slide
Show Specified Keynote Slide
Start Keynote Slideshow
Stop Keynote Slideshow
In general, actions are usually a part of the application, so no need to install separately unless the actions are supplied afterwards.

Automator Actions for Numbers '09

Anyone know where to find a zip with a bunch of automator actions? I've got a bunch of actions for Excel, but want to move over to Numbers and easily automate a bunch of formatting tasks.
Thanks!

As far as I know, Apple didn't deliver such items.
I'm not sure that the interface is really available.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 5 février 2009 22:22:33)

HT2488 Automator Actions for Excel.

Can I get autopmator actions for excel with a windows version of office running on a mac with VM?

I think you misunderstand how Automator works. It works by sending commands to the target application, which has to be written to understand how to respond to those commands.
Excel for Windows doesn't know how to respond to an Automator action.
The sole extent of what you can to is (possibly) emulate keystrokes and mouse clicks within the VM window, but that's about it. You certainly cannot target Excel directly.

An Automator action for exporting in Pages

Is it possible to make this? I can't seem to find a shortcut for exporting in Pages and I always export as .doc to the desktop so if this could be done with an Automator action it would be super.
Thanks

I don't know anything about Automator, but this Applescript will set your sleepy time to 4 minutes:
Click here to launch Script Editor.
<pre class=COMMAND>
tell application "System Preferences" to reveal (first anchor of pane ¬
"com.apple.preference.energysaver" whose name is "Sleep")
tell application "System Events" to set value of slider 1 of tab group 1 ¬
of window "Energy Saver" of process "System Preferences" to 100
</pre>

LMS 2.6 / RME : automated action for syslog

HI,
Is it possible to find a configure file or properties file for automate action which can be editable.
I lost automated action configuration and I would like to configure as before.
Many thanks, Elisabeth

I'd think AA lost in the GUI would be erased from the flat file (such as filters.dat for syslog filters) as well, in which case the only way to restore it would be from an older LMS backup.

Any free actions for photoshop cc

I have recently signed up to Photoshop CC 2014 and was wondering if there were any actions, free or paid for, that anyone could recommend?

Photoshop Help menu > Browse add-ons
Select Photoshop to filter out out other apps, search for actions.
https://creative.adobe.com/addons/search/?q=actions&pp=PHSP&ppv=15.1
Since you did not specify what you wanted to do, I'm guessing you just want to see what's there and try out whatever catches your attention.
Gene

Automator actions for SPSS

I have countless repetitve tasks to do with SPSS - statistcal analysis for a PhD I'm doing. I can see that automator with the addition of an Applescript may be very useful, however my expertise is acupuncture not computer programming. First of all can Automator be made to run SPSS 13.0 for mac functions. Secondly can anyone offer any advice on where or how to start?
Thanks for any tips : )
powerbookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
powerbookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

OK thanks.
I was just trying to avoid endless clicking around the SPSS program to get my results, its a very big project with much statistical analysis. I thought somehow that Automator may be able to help with the addition of some AppleScript code to give SPSS directions to obtain the results.
It sounds like it cant be done.
Thanks for your time.
powerbookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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