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Exporting images multiple times into different folders for photo processing.
OfflineI shoot photos for dance studios and offer different packages to the clients.
Package A is (1) 5x7 and (4) wallets
Package B is (2) 5x7 and (8) wallets
Package c is (1) 8x10 (2) 5x7 (8) wallets
In the past I used PS actions to tweak the photos and then put the proper amount of photos into folders. If someone ordered package "C" I could hit F3 and it would crop for 8x10 then place one jpeg in an 8x10 destination folder, then it wold move onto 5x7 cropping and placing 2 copies in the 5x7 folder and then onto wallets.
I am using Aperture for the first time and while I can wrap my head around how Aperture Assistant works I can't get it to move photos to different destination folders. My initial thoughts were that I could use ratings as a way to identify packages and therefore the workflow. 1 star would be "A" and then run that workflow 2 would be "B" and so on. It seems as if they would all have to go to the same destination folder though and not separate folders.
So my next attempt was to do send all the photos to the same destination but add "8x10_" or "5x7a_", "5x7b_" to the front of the image name and I could easily grab them from my folder and put them into other folders after it is all done.
I can't seem to do the simple thing of changing the file name that is exported. No matter how many of the examples I have tried to use and alter I am stuck at changing exif data only.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Rob
Hello Rob,
Cropping and duplicating of images isn't really in Aperture Assistant's scope at the moment, although I do have extensive plans along those lines for a future version.
What might be the best bet is a combination of Aperture Assistant and some Automator droplets, so AA would sort the images by rating*/package, export a file and then send it to a different Automator droplet for each package which would crop, duplicate and move the files accordingly.
I'm looking at Automator and will try and put some sample workflows together, but it's coming up to midnight here and it'll have to wait until morning...
Ian
*You might be better off using an IPTC tag such as 'Action Advised' rather than the rating, as you could then enter A, B or C into the field.
Actually I don't need cropping. I have found an acceptable way of letting the end printer do that even if the files stay the same. So in all folders there would be full 8x10s out of aperture. The only thing I am hung up on is getting Aperture Assistant to change the actual file names.
If I can get a file out to the finder folder that was called 8x10_"original_name".jpg I could cobble something else together that would work. So far I can't get anything but exif data to change.
Give this a try (you'll need to unzip it first):
http://aperture-assistant.com/files/ABC_packages...
It' doesn't look pretty but it should end up giving you file names such as 5x7_2off_"original name", wallet_8off_"original name" etc.
Note that it's running off A,B & C in the IPTC Action Advised tag as I just found a bug when using Decision Nodes and the image rating...
Ian