Convert RAW photos to JPG in the Mac OS terminal
No need for slow and heavy Photoshop scripts for this one, you can do easily do this right from your terminal window.
This is possible using "sips", an image editing tool already available on Mac which allows you to do all sorts of image manipulation, including resizing and converting.
- So we first grab all RAW files in a folder,
- We convert them to jpeg (or any other format),
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And we output them somewhere else.
for i in *.CR2; do sips -s format jpeg $i --out "${i%.*}.jpg"; done
So you now can save some space in your card by skipping the RAW + JPG option :)
Written by Ricardo Magalhães
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Wow....Learn something new everyday. Thanks so much for this.
THANK YOU!!!
Cant get it to work with CR2 here in 2018, works fine with other formats thought, so did CR2 change in some way?
Good tip!
If you want the output jpegs be in sRGB color profile (instead of the default and Apple specific Display P3 ), then modify the command to:
for i in *.NEF; do sips -s format jpeg --matchTo "/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc" $i --out "${i%.*}.jpg"; done
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