Help making an advanced droplet

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photobarb
Aug 16, 2007
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Hi everyone,

I am shooting a huge product line of dog and cat products for an online store. I have to make each one 600×600, 260×260 and 160×160, and keep the name of the product in it. THere are about 5000 of them, so I was hoping to make a droplet, drop them in and go to sleep, but I’m not sure how to deal with the naming of them. Each has an individual name, like "salmon catnip", and my goal is to make the three sizes, save them as salmon catnip large, salmon catnip medium and salmon catnip small, without having to do this individually. I made a droplet using the original name and then just adding small, medium and large, and it turns all of the different products into salmon catnips. I tried making the droplet naming each of the three end products small, medium and large, thinking that the original name would just fill in, but that was wrong, too…they all just named themselves small, medium and large. The client needs them to be named individually, because if a 600×600 were to go in the thumbnail space, their customer would only see a piece of the product, and vice versa. Any step by step advice would REALLY be appreciated!

Thanks,

Barb

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Fred
Aug 17, 2007
Save them in 3 separate folders, keeping the names you want to be displayed? Or extract the exif data (keywords?) to display? You’ll have to put them in first, though.
Maybe this can help too:
http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/CaptionMaker_SM.mov
Good luck

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TN
Tom Nelson
Aug 17, 2007
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photobarb wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am shooting a huge product line of dog and cat products for an online store. I have to make each one 600×600, 260×260 and 160×160, and keep the name of the product in it. THere are about 5000 of them, so I was hoping to make a droplet, drop them in and go to sleep, but I’m not sure how to deal with the naming of them. Each has an individual name, like "salmon catnip", and my goal is to make the three sizes, save them as salmon catnip large, salmon catnip medium and salmon catnip small, without having to do this individually. I made a droplet using the original name and then just adding small, medium and large, and it turns all of the different products into salmon catnips. I tried making the droplet naming each of the three end products small, medium and large, thinking that the original name would just fill in, but that was wrong, too…they all just named themselves small, medium and large. The client needs them to be named individually, because if a 600×600 were to go in the thumbnail space, their customer would only see a piece of the product, and vice versa. Any step by step advice would REALLY be appreciated!

Thanks,

Barb

You should be able to do this through Automate>Batch. I haven’t played with droplets but I know it works with actions. You may need to check "Override Action ‘Save As’ Commands" to prevent all files to be named the same. But it lets you name files filename + (whatever text you want) + extension.
Tom Nelson
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