Reader John DeRolph is a Photoshop user looking for some Automator assistance. He writes: I’m trying to use Automator for a Photoshop action and I’m not understanding how this thing works. Is there a ...

Over at MacWorld, OS X expert Matt Newberg discusses how to make your own Automator workflows on Mac OS X Tiger. The Automator utility strings together frequent sequences of actions for easy execution ...

The latest version of Automator (in OS X 10.5 Leopard) has several handy new features. Among the most useful: variables and looping. Unfortunately, unless you’re an experienced scripter, they’re also ...

Ghostotter Software has introduced Pages Automator Actions (http://tinyurl.com/ycrjxrrf), a $12.50 set of Automator actions to control Apple’s Pages on macOS Users ...

So Automator has a "Get from Clipboard" action but it only works with text. That means I have to take any graphic I find on the web, save it as a file, and then use that file in my Automator action.

Apple’s new Photos app is better than iPhoto, but it’s still lacking in the feature department. Thankfully, Mac OS X Automation put together a few handy scripts to get more out of the software. Their ...

Apple’s macOS Mojave introduces a rather cool new feature: You can add Automator actions to your MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar. Here is how to do it. If you use a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar you’ve probably ...

In my last post, I shared some useful tips for troubleshooting Automator workflow problems. I didn't cover everything, though. There are lots of other ways you can troubleshoot your workflow. Here are ...

Automator, the suite of automation tools for OS X that can create user workflows, services or apps, has received a series of interesting improvements in Lion, some of them useful additions that will ...

I always thought that Automator was a great idea, but I was a little bit disappointed at first, because applications with a decent set of Automator actions were few and far between. I forgot about it ...