Batching converting tiffs to SMALL jpgs

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Brandons of mass destruction
Oct 30, 2003
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I’m running Photoshop 7 and regularly need to convert print quality tifs to images for the website. I’ve made a photoshop action which converts the tiffs to rgb, then scales (all the images have to be 200px in width) and then saves them as a jpg.

However, I’ve discovered someting by accident: when i create a jpg using the export to web feature… a *much* smaller jpg is created and hey that’s the name of the game, right? The difference can be staggering. 90kbytes vs 10kbytes. Is there anyone to automate (batch convert) and still get those small jpgs?
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Tomas Holm
Oct 30, 2003
Yep, use the same batch procedure but make a macro to do the export.

I’ve added a close window feature too so you can batch a folder and not end up with a screen full of windows.

/Tomas

I’m running Photoshop 7 and regularly need to convert print quality tifs to images for the website. I’ve made a photoshop action which converts the tiffs to rgb, then scales (all the images have to be 200px in width) and then saves them as a jpg.

However, I’ve discovered someting by accident: when i create a jpg using the export to web feature… a *much* smaller jpg is created and hey that’s the name of the game, right? The difference can be staggering. 90kbytes vs 10kbytes. Is there anyone to automate (batch convert) and still get those small jpgs?

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Eric Gill
Oct 30, 2003
Brandons of mass destruction wrote in news:junkie46-
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However, I’ve discovered someting by accident: when i create a jpg using the export to web feature… a *much* smaller jpg is created and hey that’s the name of the game, right? The difference can be staggering. 90kbytes vs 10kbytes. Is there anyone to automate (batch convert) and still get those small jpgs?

File>Automate>Web Gallery
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tacitr
Oct 30, 2003
However, I’ve discovered someting by accident: when i create a jpg using the export to web feature… a *much* smaller jpg is created and hey that’s the name of the game, right?

The effects of the settings in the Save As dialog (and the Saving Files Preferences option) will have a big effect on file size.

By default, Photoshop’s Save As command will include a thumbnail and an icon in the file; it can also include such things as color profiles as well. This can add anywhere from 5K to 40K to the size of an image.

You can use the Preferences command to turn off inclusion of thumbnails, profiles, and other metadata. This will bring images saved with Save As in line with images saved using Save for Web, assuming your compression settings are the same–Save for Web does not include image metadata.

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Brandons of mass destruction
Oct 30, 2003
In article <BBC6EB78.E51C%>,
Tomas Holm wrote:

Yep, use the same batch procedure but make a macro to do the export.
I’ve added a close window feature too so you can batch a folder and not end up with a screen full of windows.

you know i had tried that before and it didn’t really work. It would convert the pix, but kept asking me if I wanted to flatten the adjustment layers and where I wanted to save it.

I tried it again just now and managed to get it working. the key seemed to be to create the action on an file that used Adjustment layers and create a default save folder. From there i could move the pix where I needed them. Thanks for the help.
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Brandons of mass destruction
Oct 30, 2003
In article ,
(Tacit) wrote:

However, I’ve discovered someting by accident: when i create a jpg using the export to web feature… a *much* smaller jpg is created and hey that’s the name of the game, right?

The effects of the settings in the Save As dialog (and the Saving Files Preferences option) will have a big effect on file size.
By default, Photoshop’s Save As command will include a thumbnail and an icon in
the file; it can also include such things as color profiles as well. This can add anywhere from 5K to 40K to the size of an image.

You can use the Preferences command to turn off inclusion of thumbnails, profiles, and other metadata. This will bring images saved with Save As in line
with images saved using Save for Web, assuming your compression settings are the same–Save for Web does not include image metadata.

thanks for the info.
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Warren Sarle
Oct 30, 2003
"Tacit" wrote in message
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You can use the Preferences command to turn off inclusion of thumbnails, profiles, and other metadata. This will bring images saved with Save As in
line
with images saved using Save for Web, assuming your compression settings
are
the same …

Not quite. Save As still includes XMP metadata consisting of many strings of blanks.

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