17.4. Creating Thumbnails

Another common task you'll often need to perform is creating thumbnails. For example, you' have 300 images that need to go up on the ecommerce site by tonight, and each of them needs a little thumbnail. Fortunately, you can use Automator to speed through this task.

Although this task can easily be accomplished by tools such as Photoshop or Fireworks, there will come a time when you either don't have access to those tools, or need to combine the thumbnail creation process with some other process (such as cropping or resizing), or you'll need to create thumbnails of non-image files (such as PDFs) and for these kinds of situations, Automator offers a compelling substitute.