Hi there,
I work for an online automotive database and we currently use a piece of simple but custom-scripted windows software using pictorial droplets to rename image files based on their visual attributes.
THe process goes thus:
- Create a destination folder
- Open the source folder containing the new images of a car fresh from the photography studio (circa 200 images)
- Open the program which has a window containing the example images to which the new ones must be compared.
- The new, studio image is dragged and dropped onto its “like” example image and gets removed from the source folder, renamed according to its attributes and then dumped in a new folder which will eventually hold all the renamed images.
- The example image the disappears so that the user cannot mistakenly use the filename twice.
All this can be accomplished, I think, with automator (except making the examples disappear, but I can change their label colour to achieve the same effect) and by using the example images as the icon for the droplet and setting the icon size for the folder to the largest possible.
What I can’t work out how to do with Automator, that the current program does, is provide a facility to double click on the droplet and have it open a large version of the example image, to make visual verification easier. Is there a way to solve this?
I should say that I am in no way a programmer, other than fiddling with automator from time to time, but I would love to get my workplace onto macs but if I can’t recreate this little program, that ambition is dead in the water!
Any help greatly appreciated and if any clarification is needed, ask away!
Drew
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