Unfortunately I didn’t find a way to save the JPG to the current folder and replace the file selected. Make sure you just set it to receive images by unselecting all the other file types in the first action:įinally, add a “Move File” action to save the converted file to the desktop: In the settings tab on the right you can choose to use this shortcut as a Quick Action in the Finder, so you can right-click an image and you’ll see the option to convert it to JPG: Search “finder” and select the “Get Selected Files in Finder” action: Now on the right you can choose an action.

In this post I want to describe how to do the first.Ĭlick the + button, or from the menu select File -> New Shortcut. I just have this one to convert any image to JPG, and another one to resize the images to 1200px. I never had the need to do anything fancy.īut since moving to a new Mac, I decided to re-do my little automations. I’ve never used this app on those platforms. MacOS Monterey, the latest macOS version, comes with a tool that’s basically going to replace Automator in the future, I think, and has been available in iOS and iPadOS for some time: Shortcuts. (PNG is nicer because of transparent background, but there’s a balance between file size and beauty). Sometimes converting an image to JPG can mean a 5x reduction in size in some cases. It’s something I do all the time, because the difference between PNG images and JPG for some things is huge. For the longest time I’ve had an Automator script to convert images to JPG.

Jpg to png mac