Automation Scripts

Workflow & Automation

Beyond Record and Play: How Automation Scripts Took My Photoshop Actions From Good to Unstoppable

The day I realized I had spent eight hours cropping and resizing the same 200 product images, manually, one at a time, I did not feel like a professional. I felt like a very expensive copy machine. That was about twelve years into my career, and the embarrassment of it pushed me to actually learn Photoshop scripting over a single obsessive weekend. I have not done that kind of repetitive work by hand since.

October 31, 2026

Workflow & Automation

How I Taught Photoshop to Do My Job (And What Happened When I Let It)

There’s a specific kind of misery that comes from doing the same crop 200 times in a single afternoon. I know this because I lived it, about fifteen years ago, sitting in a commercial studio in Chicago resizing product images one by one because nobody had set up a proper batch system. By image 140-something I started doing the mental math: at roughly 90 seconds per image, I was burning through time that could have been spent on literally anything else.

October 25, 2026