Quick macOS Shortcut, batching image conversions

richard moult
1 min readSep 10, 2022

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A quick tutorial on how to select multiple image files at the same time, resize those images and save them.

If you are new to Shortcuts you can check out a few tutorials here to get you familiar.

You can see the final Shortcut below, with a quick explanation below that.

  • Add action Receive , select input from Quick Actions . As I have adding Pin in Menu Bar I’ve also specified if there is no input ask for a file.
  • Add action Repeat with each item
  • Add Set variable so each repeated file is set to Item
  • Add action if to check file is of type image
  • If file is an image, add Resize and Save actions
  • Otherwise add action Show alert to inform the user the file is not an image and cannot be converts.

For more quick shortcuts can be found here.

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