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Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:11:10 +0000

[…] Automating Photoshop; Actions and Batching Explained If you work in Adobe Photoshop regularly, you’ll often find yourself engaged in repetitive loops that have a tendency to drain on your stamina and attention span. Today I’ll teach you how to use, and embrace the Action menu, a tool that will change the way you approach boring, monotonous tasks. Whether it’s mass resizing photos, embedding watermarks, adding filters, or perhaps something more or less complex, most of it can be automated. […]

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By: Chris Grooms

Chris Grooms — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:19:08 +0000

You don’t have to hit save every time. You merely create that action (saving the file) in your action. Although I’m not sure how you go about saving each file automatically under a different name so that you can keep the original, unless of course you set the action so that it saves to a different folder. Hm, that would work. Never mind then.

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By: Bramus!

Bramus! — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:31:53 +0000

Next to actions and batching, one can also Script Photoshop (2nd paragraph after the image)

By: JDigital

JDigital — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:21:54 +0000

“I can get it to work fine, but it keeps asking me about something for each file before saving. I want it to just do that “magic” while I sit back. I don’t want to have to hit save every time. Thanks for the post though.”

When you are recording your action, you need to save your file before stopping the recording, then it will do the same during your batch not asking you again.

By: phreq

phreq — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:34:35 +0000

fullofquestions:
Try using the pre-built web gallery
(File > Automate > Web photo Gallery)

You can constrain the resize to x wide and x tall so basically you say no image should be wider than 800px and no taller than 400px and then it does it’s thing automagically. Then you can go and grab the large images and thumbnails from the folders it has created and use them as you wish in your own app. Hope this helps

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:23:28 +0000

I stumbled upon this new application, which seems to do batching quite well in a similar way without the bloat of photoshop. It is called Phatch, which means “PHoto & bATCH!” Moreover it is free, open source and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. As it is quite new, it doesn’t have a big feature set yet. You can rotate, resize, apply rounded corners, shadows, watermarks, … It handles a wide range of image formats and even CMYK. This is the homepage:
http://photobatch.stani.be

It even has an installer for Ubuntu.

By: fullofquestions

fullofquestions — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:36:02 +0000

CS version 7.0
Would anyone know how to do the following, but first let me explain what I am doing (should be very common).

I have a set of photos that I want to resize and save for the web. I created an Action where 1. I have the action open up the image size menu and 2. does the save for web. This works pretty well except for two things:

1. It would be great for the image size action to be able to resize wider images to 8 inches in width and taller images to 4 inches in width. Right now I am simply resizing everything to 4 inches in width.

2. The Action that I created has the destination built in as part of the export action. When I created the Action, upon the second step where I went to the file->save for web menu I simply clicked Save and proceeded to click on OK for the last step. The destination folder is built in. So basically, if the folder where the image was saved to no longer exists, when I run the Batch I get the message “Could not complete the Action, since the destination folder does not exist.”
The thing here is that the destination folder option under the Batch window does not come into play when the export Action fires up.

Is there anyone that has an answer to the following questions? Any help is greatly appreciated. I searched in google groups and other places and found question 2 asked in 2002 and 2004. Apparently there was only a workaround for this although I am not sure which version of PS this referred to. To solve this people mentioned the Batch rename Action. This means that you run your first Action set and then run the Batch rename Action. I cannot find the set where the Batch rename Action resides. Besides, with CS 7.0 this may have been fixed. Again any help on this is greatly appreciated.