to show you how you could use an app called Automator to work with your
images in batches. But here's why I needed to learn how to use Automator.
This right here is a PDF and they are pictures that I had my students do on
eight and a half by eleven paper and I know we can't see the whole thing but
trust me there's about 22 pictures there but they all are in one PDF and that
came from the Xerox machine. So I put the stack of images, drawings in the Xerox
machine, it scanned it and it emailed all of it to me as one PDF to my email
address which is very helpful except for the fact that it's one PDF. What do you
do with one PDF? I would need to go to each image and turn it into an image and
save it and it would just be a lot of labor. So Automator can do that for you.
I set up this Automator as a work it's a workflow and I call it big PDF to
individual images. So what I did is I put that image or that PDF in here. I'm
telling it to turn PDF into images which was pulled from this list. It's a drag
and drop kind of thing to do. So that was under PDF so render PDF as images and I
dragged it in here and actually you don't need two of them so I'm gonna get rid
of one now. Whoops. Okay I think I undid too many. Then I dragged in one that says
move finder items and what I'm gonna do is have all the results put into a new
folder called images from scans. So then I hit run and when I do that all of these
I'm gonna stop it right now because I already did this. All of these are
sitting in this folder now. They've all been turned into individual images. So
these images were broken down from that one PDF. Now I have a folder of PDFs but
here's one thing I wanted to do. Did I say PDFs? I meant JPEGs sorry. So I've got a
folder of JPEGs but I want each of those JPEGs to turn into a pop art image and I
could. There's a lot of ways you can put a filter on things but this is way
easier for a whole batch of your students work. You can just go and find that
batch. So this is images from scans. I could select all of them. You know
they're crooked. I would have needed to do a little editing I think. So I'm gonna
just do one for now but I could have had all of them in here and it is
going to apply this filter. But look at all the filters I could have done. There
are so many possibilities. Posterizing, CPR, there's so many things. Point the
lines, pixelate. And then I'm gonna put it in a new folder called pop images and
here's a nice tip. I need to add a little something to the end of the JPEG
title so that it's not the same as the original. So I'm gonna hit run and see if
it'll work for me. Now let's go over here and there it is. Yes. So remember I
could have selected the entire batch to do it once and then I would have been
able to automate this project. Yay!
