![]() So now you can pick which filter you want. So if you think you might be using it with Blur often and the other ones more rarely then you probably want to set it to Blur before you export the application. Notice it's sticking with the last one that we used when we made this in Automator. You see it comes up here with the choices we can make. Now the first time you do it it's going to ask for permission to access the location where its at. All I need to do is drag and drop this onto it. Once I do that I don't need Automator anymore. Now I'm going to call this Apply Quartz Composition Filter. You'll probably want to put it somewhere else like your User Application's Folder or something like that. ![]() I'm just going to Save it to the Desktop for now. We'll just check that and it's going to prompt us for all of this stuff every time we run this app. But we don't actually have to do that because we go to Options here and I look under Options, Show This Action When the Workflow Runs. So you'd think that we need to build a different automator application for each one of these. Tons of cool things that you could use to modify your images. You could try Color Controls and there are a whole bunch of settings for color controls. You could see what that looks like and that there are settings for Blur. You could see there's a whole bunch of different ones. So you can see here it's showing you a sample image and what it will look like if it's applied. Now here's the Quartz Composition Filter action in Automator. So I'm going to say Don't Add, we're fine. We don't because we already setup Duplicate there. I'm going to drag this in here and you see it's going to say, hey this is going to change the original. These are composition filters and they do a whole variety of things. Now if these sound familiar you may be thinking of quartz filters which allow you to do things like compress PDF's. The one we want is Apply Quartz Composition Filter to Image Files. So once we have that let's search for Quartz. It's simple and it will just create a copy in the same location as the original. Now you can use Copy Files for this but I like using Duplicate Finder Items better. So first I want to get that image and make a duplicate of it because this filter is going to change the image passed into it. You could do this as a Quick Action but I'm going to use it as an application so we can just drag and drop an image onto it. ![]() Let's start off here in the Automator app and we're going to create an application. So you could build a quick little app that allows you to easily get to these filters and apply them to any image file. There is a way to access them using Automator. So your Mac has image filters built into it called Quartz Composition Filters. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you some hidden photo filters that are built into your Mac and how you can easily use them. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Using Your Mac's Built-In Photo Filters at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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