Need Help…Trying to run a Batch on an Action…won’t save

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Space_Dude
Oct 21, 2003
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I’m using Photoshop 6.0.1 and and am trying to run a batch on a plug-in. The batch process is pulling from my "source" folder and will allow me to save manually in the "destination" folder. I can’t figure out how to save to the "destination" folder without manual intervention. If I check the "Override Action ‘Save in’ Commands" block, the action will run through the entire "source" folder but doesn’t save to the "destination" folder…I can’t tell where it’s saving to. I’ve checked the "source" folder to see if I accidentally overwrote the files, but the dates on the files haven’t changed. Any ideas?

Thanks,

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YrbkMgr
Oct 21, 2003
Spacey,

You’re almost there. Just create a Save As action that saves as your desired file type with all the options. Append your current "editing" action to include this Save As portion. Then toggle the dialog to OFF (the little square next to the action name). So the new action will be "My old action" + "Save As action", with the Save As dialog toggled off.

Then in the batch dialog, do just what you did before, specifying the new action, and checking the box that Overrides Save As information, and choose a destination.

When you hit "go", all images in your source folder will open one by one, be processed and saved to the destination you chose in the batch dialog.

Peace,
Tony
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larry
Oct 21, 2003
The parent folder is the default for the save as location. If it’s overwriting the original files, the easiest way would be to work on a folder of dupes and let Photoshop save as back to that folder and then move them in Windows Explorer.

Larry Berman
<http://BermanGraphics.com>
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larry
Oct 21, 2003
In looking back over my notes, I’ve always had it save in a different folder if I created that folder prior and specified it in the action like Tony said.

Larry Berman
<http://BermanGraphics.com>
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Space_Dude
Oct 21, 2003
Tony,

Thanks for the assist.

How do you do this: "Just create a Save As action that saves as your desired file type with all the options. Append your current "editing" action to include this Save As portion."

I hate admiting to being a newbie almost as much as I hate being a newbie.

Space_Dude
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YrbkMgr
Oct 21, 2003
No problem SpaceD.

First though, clarify this:

am trying to run a batch on a plug-in

I’m not at all certain what that means. I presumed that already had an action defined that does something already – runs a filter, or edits in some way. We’ll call that the Editing action. Stick that away for a sec. If you don’t already have an action defined, then you have to clarify exactly what you’re trying to batch and how you’re doing it.

But for the time being let’s say that you’ve recorded a series of steps for editing an image in some way.

You open a dummy image, and create (record) an action that saves the file in the format you wish using the options you wish. Go all the way through actually saving the file. When the file is saved, stop recording.

Once that’s done, you can create a 3rd action that is the sum of the Editing Action and the Save As action – you start recording (with an image open) and click your Editing action, then click the Save As action; then stop recording.

It is this third action that you run in batch, after toggling the Save As dialog to off.

Of course, you don’t have to have three separate actions; you could append your first Editing action with the Save As steps, but my preference happens to be doing it in discrete stages since I re-use portions of my actions and nest them.

If none of this makes sense, then come back and answer what you are actually doing, so that there are no assumptions on our part.

Peace,
Tony

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