Applescript or Automator Action for Web Publishing

Hi All,

I am trying to publish some photos on the net in a number of galleries.
Essentially what I want to do is the following steps:

1. process images selected in iPhoto
2. prompt for a name of the gallery
3. create a directory with the gallery name
4. create 2 sub directories, 'tb' and 'big'
6. copy thumbnail to 'tb'
7a. add the iPhoto Title and Comment fields as text on to the image
(each on a seperate line, each a different style)
7b. alternatively, show each image and prompt for each field.
8. copy image to 'big'
9. resize image
10. copy image to the gallery directory
11. ftp to server

For image manipulation, I can do what I need from the shell using
ImageMagick 6.2.5 , but I can't make it work in Automator. This is my
first complex Automator workflow, so somethings just haven't been
obvious to me :(

I appreciate any help that you could send my way.

Kind thanks,

Dan

In article <1137326080.705075.131630.RemoveThis@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
<"dstodd@gmail.com"> wrote:

> For image manipulation, I can do what I need from the shell using
> ImageMagick 6.2.5 , but I can't make it work in Automator. This is my
> first complex Automator workflow, so somethings just haven't been
> obvious to me :(

I may have misunderstood you but...

Since you say you can make it work from the shell using ImageMagick,
can't you save those commands as a shell script (text file) instead of
just typing in a series of commands on the command line?

If so then...

Automator (and/or Applescript) can run shell scripts. In Automator,
click Automator in the Library column and you will see the action "Run
Shell Script" appear in the action column. Copy/paste the full shell
script's text to the action.

J

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