Can I loop an action?

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animgirl
Apr 20, 2004
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This seems like one of those things that’s HAD to be brought up before. But I searched and didn’t find an answer.

Is there any way to make an action loop?

I have an action to resize, apply auto levels, unsharpen mask and then save itself in another folder. I’d like to just open the whole folder of pics that are being converted and have it apply this action to all the pics in sequence instead of one at a time.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
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Allen_Jackson
Apr 20, 2004
You should turn the Action into a Droplet. Then you can drop the whole over folder on the droplet and it will convert every file in the folder. You do have to give it a destination folder though.

You can find the droplet procedure under File/ Automate/ Create Droplet.

You can also use the action as a Batch Action under the same File/ Automate/ Batch.

hope this helps.

AlDeb
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animgirl
Apr 20, 2004
Cool – I’m going to have to try that. Thanks so much!
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dave_milbut
Apr 21, 2004
you can also use automate batch in addition to droplets. true looping require a scripting language like javascript though. iirc you do some web page designing right? do you have any scripting knowlege? if so, that’s the way to go.

dave
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animgirl
Apr 24, 2004
I tried automate batch and it’s a dream! It’s funny – years in this program and I just got this revelation or something *blush*

Yeah I do web designing, I’ll look into droplets also and see how that works.

Thanks fellas!

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