Yes. Record a new action from the Actions palette. Don’t include Open in the steps.
Look up Actions and Automate in the manual or Help.
right, but then i would have to sit there and open each file, or a group of files at a time. is there a way to get it to open a file run action, close, then open the next file in the folder and repeat?
No you dont. just setup the action using one file to create the action. then you just run the batch command on the whole folder. make sure you have a backup set of these images in another spot in case you screw up. i usually make a duplicate set,and then run my action,saving to a new folder,and then i just check that folder when the action is done running to make sure all is well. name your action something like- rgb to cmyk, and make sure that action is selected when you go to run it.
When you run an action under Automate>Batch it automatically opens each file. If you specify an Open step in an action it will open the specified file over and over.
As I said, read up about Actions and Automate in the manual or Help.
thanks alot, you guys rock!