Sure, it’s easy.
First you create an action to Save As Jpg, then you run the action in Batch, on a folder (or open) images. Here’s a rough sketch…
Open a dummy image. Create action and start recording File|Save As… and choose your file type and options. Go all the way through to saving the dummy image. Stop recording.
Next to the action you’ve recorded, toggle the dialog to OFF.
Now File|Automate Batch.
Action to run: The one you just created
Source: Folder
Choose: pick the source folder
Destination: Folder
Choose: pick where you want them to go
Override Save As Information: CHECKED
Optionally choose a naming convention and hit "go". Each image will open from the source folder, and save as your file type in the destination folder, and then close, unattended.
Peace,
Tony
Tony,
Thanks for the prompt reply. How do you create an action?
Check the helpfile.
Look at the actions palette, at the bottom.
Peace,
Tony
press the record button in the actions palette. see the help file for details.
Write and save an action to save .psd as .jpg then go File, Automate, batch and pick the action out of the drop down list and continue to pick the source and destination etc.
Pamela
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I scanned a few hundred pictures and I inadvertantly saved them to
Photoshop format (.psd). Is there a way to Convert them all to jpg format all at once? I’m trying to make a slideshow that will play on my DVD player and my editing software doesn’t recognize psd format.
Looks like I figured it out (with your help). I selected: Window, Actions, then I seen it in the pallete, then noticed the "Start Recording" icon and just walked through as you described.
But in regards to the "toggle the dialog to OFF." part, what is the checkmark and the redish square??? Do we remove both the check & redish box?
Right now I tried it and I can see all the files opening (a quick flash) but they don’t get saved in the "destination" folder…..
The reddish square. The checkmark temporarily enables or disables the action or a step in the action. If you let your mouse hover, help will pop up to tell you which is what.
If they’re not getting saved in the destination folder you have something wrong – probably the dialog toggle, or the Override Save As information in the batch dialog. Check your settings.
Peace,
Tony
It saves if I have the check box checked and without the redish square. The mouse hover "help" didn’t help much because it always says "toggle on/off" regardless of what’s in the box.
So it’s working fine now. Thx.
But if someone could give a better explaination on the check & redish box, that would be helpful.
Check the helpfile – you have to at least try.
It may be too late, but if you have any plans to do anything else with those images, converting them all to JPEG without saving the original files is not a good idea. I hope you saved copies of the originals first before you started the conversion process.
Bert
Bert,
The way I read it, he has the originals, and won’t be overwriting them because the format will be different. Most people would put the batch results in a separate folder, but even if they didn’t the originals would still be in tact, unless he deleted them. In which case, yours is sage advice.
Peace,
Tony
Tony,
AFter I posted that, I realized that you instructions said the action would do a "Save As" which would not affect the original. Duh. I have never used Actions, since I have only PSE which doesn’t have them. My only excuse for a dumb post.
Bert
Not dumb Bert, sage advice, to be sure.
