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emperorsnewclothes
Joined: 15 Oct 2004
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 Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:07 am Post subject: Automated actions |
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I recently discovered the automated tasks facility and peed myself with excitement. I am often taking identically lit photos which I want the same size and compression. Nothing is more boring than processing 25 pics identically. Its rather like working on an assembly line!
The idea that I could just set up a few batches, take some photos and get on with something else while they are resizing, optimising and saving is obviously very attractive!
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For every picture I process the batch stops to ask me what file compression I want. That defeats the whole point!
I tried to include the save process as an action in my batch file, but then it saved all the pics with the same name, and not with the generated name facility in the automation window.
Surely there must be a way to set compression in the process and still use the generated filenames?!
All help will be very gratefully recieved. |
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b15fliptop
Joined: 13 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Hi!
It sounds like you named the file you were saving while you were recording the action, so PS thinks that you wanted to include that as a function of the action. Open up your Actions palette and look through the steps of the action to see if this is the case (just click the little arrows next to each step to open a description of everything that PS is doing in that step). If so, you can merely select the "save as..." portion and re-record it by clicking the little record button at the bottom of the palette. Just make sure you name the file BEFORE you record the action, and it should do what you want.
Hope that helps!
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Brian Garrison
BMG Design |
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