tailieunhanh - Building Your Own Workflow phần 2

But it's not so great if you want to hand the CD or DVD to anyone who doesn't use iPhoto (like a Mac OS 9 person or a Windows person) | But it s not so great if you want to hand the CD or DVD to anyone who doesn t use iPhoto like a Mac OS 9 person or a Windows person because they ll have a devil of a time figuring out where all the photos are in the convoluted Library folder structure. If you build an Automator workflow to back up your photos instead you a can burn a disc containing only the photos in one simple folder b have more control over which photos are backed up and c learn even more tricks for automating sophisticated operations. Figure 7-10 shows what the final workflow looks like. Here s how to put it together 1. Create a new Automator workflow -N . The Starting Points screen appears. 2. Click Photos Images. From the Get content from pop-up menu choose my iPhoto Library. From the second pop-up menu choose Ask for photos and albums when my workflow runs. Click Choose. Your newly hatched workflow when it runs will begin by asking you which photos you want to back up when you run the workflow. Tip What you really want is to round up only the latest batch of photos since your last backup for example. Fortunately one of the actions in the Photos folder is called Find iPhoto Items and it lets you specify a time period like Within the last 2 weeks. It would be perfect for this workflow if it weren t so buggy. For example it finds multiple copies of each photo. For best results then create a Smart Album in iPhoto that lets you filter photos based on certain criteria all your photos taken in the past two months for example. When you run the workflow you can choose that album to back up so that you get only the most recent shots. 3. In the Library list click the Utilities folder. Drag the Ask for Confirmation action into the Workflow pane above the Ask for Photos action. Fill in the text as shown at the top of Figure 7-10. You want to drag it above the Ask for Photos action so it s the first thing that happens when you run your workflow. Now you ve just directed Automator to begin its work by .