Do you happened to have 5-10 PSD (Adobe Photoshop document) design mockup to show your client for fast approval on daily basis? Either to show in JPG or in PNG format and upload/sync them to Dropbox share folder, between you and your clients.

If you do, you probably think that there should be a faster way to do it, rather than waiting 5 to 20 seconds desperately using Save for Web & Devices tool process, even just for one simple PSD document conversion.

By using the built-in Automator in your Mac computer, you can do this easily, painlessly, and blazingly fast.

Open it under /Applications, and choose Workflow on the startup screen. The outline for the process is:

  1. Get the original files.
  2. Copy to desktop.
  3. Convert those copied image to JPG/PNG.

To start, on the left, there’s a search bar, search "Ask for Finder Items". Let’s add more! "Change Type of Images". That’s the heart of it all.

Automator then will ask you about: "This action will change the image type of the image files passed into it.  Would you like to add a Copy Finder Items action so that the copies are changed and your originals are preserved?" <— Please press Add. This will prevent to lose the original image of yours. BE CAREFUL!

You might want to change the default target image type to something (the default is TIFF).

Here’s what you’ll have in the end:

If you’re in a hurry, you can always grab the complete workflow here. Anyway, I have never experiencing bad image quality on post batch process, but however the copied original file have to be manually deleted. Perhaps someone could help to optimize the workflow?