Find the section “Assign specific editing applications for each file type” and click “Set…”.

In Photo Mechanic, open Preferences (cmd-,).

Here’s how I configured Photo Mechanic to use it: I named mine “ArchiveForPM” and put it in my Applications folder.

Check the box for “Show this action when the workflow runs” If you entered a name in the above step, you could leave this unchecked.

For me I just left that blank, because in the next step, there is a way to have the app ask you for a name when you create it

If you never care about naming your Archive, you can pick a name to always use.

Drag Create Archive into your Application.

You can use the search box to get there quickly

In the left pane, with Actions selected, find the “Create Archive” action.

If asked to choose a type of document, select Application.

I am not sure how much Automator differs in other versions of macOS, and I’m not Automator guru, so if you have any Automator tips, please share with me.)įirst, I whipped up the most basic Automator app ever. I first tried configuring macOS Archive Utility as an “external editor” in Photo Mechanic, but that resulted in Archive Utility compressing each image individually, so I turned to Automator (A tool built into all modern Macs) and came up with a ludicrously simple app that seems to work. On a Mac, it is fairly easy to select images in Finder and right-click and choose “Compress n items.” What, I wondered, was the fastest way in Photo Mechanic to get images into a Zip archive when looking at a contact sheet with a few hundred images? This, too, is fairly common, but I realized I didn’t have a really streamlined way to do that in Photo Mechanic. This is not an uncommon request, of course, but they also requested that the images be zipped. I recently photographed an event for a client and they asked me to send them 5-10 images right after the event for sharing on social media.

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