Photoshop CS Action Request?

Samantha wrote:

Can someone assist me? I’m new to Photoshop CS, and I’m just back from vacation. I am looking for an action that will take a RAW file and open it, as shot, in Photoshop. Then, it will do an unsharp mask of 50%, with a radius of 5 pixes and a threshold of 1. It would then save the edited file in an "edited" subdirectory of the current directory as a JPG file with maximum clarity (I think it’s a 12 rating).

Can anyone help me? I’m really trying to learn … but I have 1500 pictures that I’m trying to process before Father’s Day.

Any help would be great appreciated and remembered.

Thank you so much.

Samantha

This would be very straightforward recording except that saving to a subdirectory of any given directory would require scripting; can’t do it with an action alone.

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Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

If she could stand to have all the saved images in the same subdirectory….that would work. I think there is a way to perform the action on every file in a directory….from the file browser somewhere. She will want to avoid clicking the mouse 1500 times.

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Samantha wrote:

Can someone assist me? I’m new to Photoshop CS, and I’m just back from

vacation. I am looking for an action that will take a RAW file and open it, as shot, in Photoshop. Then, it will do an unsharp mask of 50%, with a radius of 5 pixes and a threshold of 1. It would then save the edited file in an "edited" subdirectory of the current directory as a JPG file with maximum clarity (I think it’s a 12 rating).

Can anyone help me? I’m really trying to learn … but I have 1500

pictures that I’m trying to process before Father’s Day.

Any help would be great appreciated and remembered.

Thank you so much.

Samantha

This would be very straightforward recording except that saving to a subdirectory of any given directory would require scripting; can’t do it with an action alone.

—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

I’ve just started experimenting with actions but I think what Samantha needs to do is record an action from start to end on one file, including Save As, into a new folder. Then go File…Automate…Batch. Select the new action she created, specify the source folder and the new jpg folder as destination. The part I’m sketchy about is the naming of the new files. In one attempt I renamed all the files exactly the same so at the end of my batch run I had only one file in the destination folder… each Save As had overwritten the previous file.

Mark

"edjh" wrote in message

Samantha wrote:

Can someone assist me? I’m new to Photoshop CS, and I’m just back from

vacation. I am looking for an action that will take a RAW file and open it, as shot, in Photoshop. Then, it will do an unsharp mask of 50%, with a radius of 5 pixes and a threshold of 1. It would then save the edited file in an "edited" subdirectory of the current directory as a JPG file with maximum clarity (I think it’s a 12 rating).

Can anyone help me? I’m really trying to learn … but I have 1500

pictures that I’m trying to process before Father’s Day.

Any help would be great appreciated and remembered.

Thank you so much.

Samantha

This would be very straightforward recording except that saving to a subdirectory of any given directory would require scripting; can’t do it with an action alone.

—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

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I’ve just started experimenting with actions but I think what Samantha needs to do is record an action from start to end on one file, including Save As, into a new folder. Then go File…Automate…Batch. Select the new action she created, specify the source folder and the new jpg folder as destination. The part I’m sketchy about is the naming of the new files. In one attempt I renamed all the files exactly the same so at the end of my batch run I had only one file in the destination folder… each Save As had overwritten the previous file.

Mark

"edjh" wrote in message

Samantha wrote:

Can someone assist me? I’m new to Photoshop CS, and I’m just back from

vacation. I am looking for an action that will take a RAW file and open it, as shot, in Photoshop. Then, it will do an unsharp mask of 50%, with a radius of 5 pixes and a threshold of 1. It would then save the edited file in an "edited" subdirectory of the current directory as a JPG file with maximum clarity (I think it’s a 12 rating).

Can anyone help me? I’m really trying to learn … but I have 1500

pictures that I’m trying to process before Father’s Day.

Any help would be great appreciated and remembered.

Thank you so much.

Samantha

This would be very straightforward recording except that saving to a subdirectory of any given directory would require scripting; can’t do it with an action alone.

Mark, you are correct. It’s easy to add a Save As in the Action and choose the file type, i.e. JPG, TIF. If she leaves the File Name section alone, the Action will take care of the file format and add the necessary extension.