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Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: antony on March 02, 2007, 08:12:56 AM
This is a small Automator Action written by me.



If you like the good old fashioned sepia effect in photos, you might be interested in this. (I hope.)  As the name suggested, this Automator Action will apply sepia tone (effect) to your photos, and it's very easy to use, just do it the Mac way - drag-and-drop.

To use it, simply download Sepialise Me (free).

Then drag your images or photos to the Sepialise Me icon.


You can get results like this:


For more information and to download Sepialise Me (Automator Action), please visit Sepialise Me page.

PS. That was the ugly me in the photo above.

Comments and suggestions are welcome. (And complaints as well.)
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: pendragon on March 02, 2007, 09:07:15 AM
Antony,

Bravo! A very clever app (and chap) indeed. clap.gif

Do the photos that have been "Sepialised" differ from those that may created via iPhoto 6.0.5 (Effects)?
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: antony on March 02, 2007, 09:44:35 AM
Thanks pendragon.

I believe they should be the same (which I assume iPhoto calls system's built-in ColorSync for such feature).

Antony.
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: kimmer on March 02, 2007, 12:56:47 PM
Cool. I'll download and play with it.

THANKS!

PS: You aren't ugly. smile.gif
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: kimmer on March 02, 2007, 01:33:17 PM
Now that was cool. I've never used the Automater" to do anything.

The only thing I don't like about "Sepialise Me" is the finished pics winding up in my pictures folder. I'd prefer they wind up where my originals were. That's just a personal pref and it's easy enough to grab them from the pics folder.

Thanks again, Antony. You've solved a little task I had planned for later this year with a family photo album. smile.gif
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 02, 2007, 03:01:49 PM
Assuming the Automator action is still editable, you should be able to have it send the files anywhere you want, or even have it ask you where.
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: kimmer on March 02, 2007, 04:33:21 PM
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Mar 2 2007, 01:01 PM) [snapback]120697[/snapback]
Assuming the Automator action is still editable, you should be able to have it send the files anywhere you want, or even have it ask you where.

Wellllll ... I don't know how to edit Automator actions, so I don't know if it's editable or not.  dntknw.gif  

This is the first time I've ever used Automator. I'm a noobie at this.  tongue.gif
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: jcarter on March 02, 2007, 06:13:23 PM
Neat!  Ive not used Automator either, how about a little tutorial?
Impressive,
Thanks for this info, would be fun to learn more.
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 02, 2007, 09:29:27 PM
I never said I used it, either. Every time I tried to create one I ended up writing it all as an AppleScript because the needed actions weren't available in Automator. doh.gif But if the actions are available, it's even easier than AppleScript because it's mainly drag-n-drop! And it's already installed with Tiger.

Here's a start for you, however. <Mac 101: Automator>
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: antony on March 03, 2007, 04:42:52 AM
QUOTE(kimmer @ Mar 3 2007, 06:33 AM) [snapback]120691[/snapback]
The only thing I don't like about "Sepialise Me" is the finished pics winding up in my pictures folder. I'd prefer they wind up where my originals were. That's just a personal pref and it's easy enough to grab them from the pics folder.

It was a decision I have to made, I have some difficulties duplicating the file in the original folder, since I don't want to destroy the original file.


QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Mar 3 2007, 08:01 AM) [snapback]120697[/snapback]
Assuming the Automator action is still editable, you should be able to have it send the files anywhere you want, or even have it ask you where.
Sorry, this Automation is saved as an application... to make it easier to use when applying.


Thanks guys for testing out.
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: jcarter on March 03, 2007, 07:04:51 AM
Thanks,  I will have to give this a try.  I was trying something with applescript this morning, I dont know much about that either.  But its time for me to try some of these neat things.

Always work on duplicate photos, never ever mess with your originals!
Jane

I forgot to mention, I was using RapidWeaver yesterday, its pretty nice!  Got some great video tutorials that you can just follow along with. smile.gif
Title: Sepialise Me, apply sepia tone to your photos
Post by: danf63 on March 03, 2007, 01:53:24 PM
Nice work, Anthony! And congrats on being a staff pick at the Apple site.

Dan