New shortcut: Crop Podcast Artwork with Pixelmator

Built for linking to podcasts mentioning my work, this shortcut uses Apple Podcasts and Pixelmator Pro for Mac to perform a ML crop on the show artwork to generate a 16x9 image for a blog post.

January 24

I’ve just started a new folder in the Shortcuts Library — the first of my set of Apple Podcasts for Creators shortcuts:

Crop podcast artwork with Pixelmator:
Extracts the name and artwork for a given podcast, crops it to 16×9 using Pixelmator Pro for Mac, and saves the renamed file into Downloads.

I built this to help with any future “podcast mentions” on my site, like today’s from the show Magic Rays of Light – all my blog posts require a 16×9 image, so this shortcut scrapes the Artwork from Apple Podcasts and uses Pixelmator’s Machine Learning crop to find the best position.

Check out the folder of Apple Podcasts for Creators shortcuts on the Shortcuts Library.

Apple Podcasts, Apple Podcasts for Creators, Artwork, Blogging, Cropping, Pixelmator, Podcasting, Shortcuts

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