From there, use the share menu to find the Resize & Rename Images Template shortcut. So, to begin, select a handful of images from the Photos app, the Files app, or anywhere else that you have images stored (like a photo editing app, for example). A typical workflow for us is selecting multiple images that we’ve prepped for The Sweet Setup that need to be renamed and resized for the web. This shortcut will one or many images for processing. If you’d rather be asked where to save each image, turn this option on. Also, we’ve left the Ask Where To Save option disabled to avoid the tedious task of selecting a save location with every image. If you do opt to use a subfolder, just make sure it exists prior to running the shortcut! Otherwise, the shortcut won’t work correctly. I’ve set it up to save images to the resized-images folder, but you can either use your own existing folder, create a new one, or just save images to the main Shortcuts folder without a subfolder. By default, the shortcut saves to the main Shortcuts folder in iCloud Drive. When you import the shortcut, it will ask you a couple of questions, but here’s a quick explanation for how it works. If you’d like to follow along, here’s a link to the shortcut example we’re using today.īefore starting, we need to set up a location for these modified images to go once the shortcut is complete. Today, we’ll look at the steps to do this with your own shortcut. In that post, he alluded to a separate part of the shortcut that handles the renaming, resizing, and compression of these images. Once you get the hang of it though, the same patterns can be applied to other customizations in XYPlorer for example color filters or Ghost filters.Last week, Josh showed us how he uses DataJar to temporarily store images before uploading them to our CMS online.

A more extensive list is available in the XYPlorer help file. There are some examples of these patterns included within the 'Customize File Icons' UI or settings box to get you started by selecting the 'I' button. But as results are immediately visible, it makes it easy to adjust accordingly to exactly what you want. It is a bit of a learning curve to get the pattern (instruction to select certain files/folders to be associated with a particular icon) just right. Further flexibility comes with the ability to turn on or off individual custom icons with a simple tick box. To turn the customized icons on or off is simply a matter of pressing the handy toggle button.

It's so easy to add, remove, change and fine tune your settings to your liking. Customized icons are also very very flexible. Meaning that all new files or folders that match your predefined pattern or instruction if you like will automatically be displayed with your chosen icon. It's set and forget as all file/folder icon associations are applied globally. The customized icons are stored within the 'Icons' folder of the XYPlorer directory while the list of customized file/folder patterns as well as which particular icon to point to are stored within XYplorer. No extra files are created like with other programs that place an icon in each directory. You can customize an infinite number of icons for an infinite number of files and/folders or even just a single one based on what ever combination you want. Custom file and folder icons Add a custom icon to a set of files or folders based on file type, location, name (or part of name) for example: all files named XYplorer to have 'icon x' or all folders that contain the word XYplorer in the name to have 'icon y', size, date, name length, path etc.

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