In this chapter you'll learn how to scale, crop, rotate, pad, flip, and convert images, and you don't need anything but AppleScript.
Most scripters don't realize that Mac OS X includes powerful built-in scriptable image processing tools that work independent of any photo software. Manipulating and sharing images is a big part of what we do with our computers. Images from the internet, images in your mail messages, images from your cellphone, images from your camera-they're everywhere. The world of the modern computer user is filled with pictures. The following online materials, regarding the manipulation of images using the Image Events application, are exerpted from the Apple Pro Training Book AppleScript 1-2-3.
