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 ...

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 ...

The Automator application in OS X is a feature that many people use to modify documents in a folder, or perform other routine actions such as synchronizing items in a folder with those in another ...

It doesn't have to be difficult to make your Mac automatically perform repetitive or tedious tasks for you. Apple's free Automator app on every Mac has a plethora of functions that take one step to ...