iPhoto Batch Apply Adjustments Using AppleScript
Here is an AppleScript for iPhoto that uses UI scripting to apply the same photo adjustments to an entire album of photos. This is very useful when you have a lot of photos from the same session that need the exact same adjustments.
How To Use
- In iPhoto, place all the photos you want edited in an album.
- Edit a photo how you want it and choose
Edit > Copy Adjustments… - Revert to Original the file you just edited or remove it from the album so it doesn't get edited again by the script.
- Select the album in iPhoto and run the script below in AppleScript Editor.
tell application "iPhoto"
activate
set numPhotos to count of photos in current album
tell application "System Events"
tell process "iPhoto"
keystroke "a" using {command down, shift down} -- Select None
keystroke "e" using {command down} -- Enter Edit Mode
delay 1
repeat until numPhotos is 0
set t to value of static text 1 of group 4 of window 1
keystroke "v" using {command down, option down} -- Paste Adjustments
delay 1
if numPhotos > 1 then
keystroke (ASCII character 29) -- right arrow
-- Wait for the next photo to load
set t1 to t
repeat until t1 is not t
try
set t1 to value of static text 1 of group 4 of window 1
delay 1
on error errMsg
delay 5
end try
end repeat
else
keystroke return
end if
set numPhotos to (numPhotos - 1)
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end tell
on delay duration
do shell script "/bin/sleep " & duration
end delay
How It Works
It enters Edit Mode in iPhoto and performs Edit > Paste Adjustments… on each photo. On the last photo, it exits Edit Mode by pressing return. With UI scripting, you often need to use delays for the UI to "catch up" with the script. It really depends of the speed of the computer, so adjust them as necessary.