saving multiple photos at once in CS?

I’m in the process of scanning and archiving hundreds of family photos. I scan a bunch of photos and then when I close my scanner software and go back into PhotoShop CS, all the pics are in there as Untitled 1, Untitled 2, Untitled 3 and so on. Instead of having to individually select "save as" for each photo, is there a way to have Photoshop save them all at once to the same directory in the same file format with those default names (i.e. Untitled 1, etc)? If not, is there a way to change what file format Photoshop defaults to when it asks if you want to save a file?
For example, now if I attempt to close an image window that hasn’t been saved, Photoshop says "Save changes to Adobe Photoshop document Untitled 1 before closing?" If I click yes, the file format it defaults to is PSD. I then have to scroll to the file format I need (in my case, TIFF) before saving. Obviously this can be tedious and time consuming when saving over a hundred photos. Is there a way to change the default save to file format to TIFF? If so, how?

Any advice in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

Nikko wrote:

I’m in the process of scanning and archiving hundreds of family photos. I scan a bunch of photos and then when I close my scanner software and go back
into PhotoShop CS, all the pics are in there as Untitled 1, Untitled 2, Untitled 3 and so on. Instead of having to individually select "save as" for each photo, is there a way to have Photoshop save them all at once to the same directory in the same file format with those default names (i.e. Untitled 1, etc)? If not, is there a way to change what file format Photoshop defaults to when it asks if you want to save a file?
For example, now if I attempt to close an image window that hasn’t been saved, Photoshop says "Save changes to Adobe Photoshop document Untitled 1
before closing?" If I click yes, the file format it defaults to is PSD. I
then have to scroll to the file format I need (in my case, TIFF) before saving. Obviously this can be tedious and time consuming when saving over a
hundred photos. Is there a way to change the default save to file format to
TIFF? If so, how?

Any advice in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
for any insight you can provide.

Save one photo the way you want it, and record this as an action. I would include the closure of the window in the action. Once you have recorded this, you can save all other photos the same way by simply running the action (you can assign a key stroke to the action to speed things up).

Save one photo the way you want it, and record this as an action. I would include the closure of the window in the action. Once you have recorded this, you can save all other photos the same way by simply running the action (you can assign a key stroke to the action to speed things up).

Thanks for the feedback. I’m pretty new at this. How do I got about recording an action? Is there a tutorial or web page that you can point me to? Thanks in advance.

I’m in the process of scanning and archiving hundreds of family photos. I scan a bunch of photos and then when I close my scanner software and go back into PhotoShop CS, all the pics are in there as Untitled 1, Untitled 2, Untitled 3 and so on. Instead of having to individually select "save as" for each photo, is there a way to have Photoshop save them all at once to the same directory in the same file format with those default names (i.e. Untitled 1, etc)? If not, is there a way to change what file format Photoshop defaults to when it asks if you want to save a file?

For example, now if I attempt to close an image window that hasn’t been saved, Photoshop says "Save changes to Adobe Photoshop document Untitled 1 before closing?" If I click yes, the file format it defaults to is PSD. I then have to scroll to the file format I need (in my case, TIFF) before saving. Obviously this can be tedious and time consuming when saving over a hundred photos. Is there a way to change the default save to file format to TIFF? If so, how?
Any advice in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

Nikko wrote:

I’m in the process of scanning and archiving hundreds of family photos. I scan a bunch of photos and then when I close my scanner software and go back into PhotoShop CS, all the pics are in there as Untitled 1, Untitled 2, Untitled 3 and so on. Instead of having to individually select "save as" for each photo, is there a way to have Photoshop save them all at once to the same directory in the same file format with those default names (i.e. Untitled 1, etc)? If not, is there a way to change what file format Photoshop defaults to when it asks if you want to save a file?

For example, now if I attempt to close an image window that hasn’t been saved, Photoshop says "Save changes to Adobe Photoshop document Untitled 1 before closing?" If I click yes, the file format it defaults to is PSD. I then have to scroll to the file format I need (in my case, TIFF) before saving. Obviously this can be tedious and time consuming when saving over a hundred photos. Is there a way to change the default save to file format to TIFF? If so, how?
Any advice in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

Hi Nikko,

As others have suggested, having an action to scan an image is a good way to speed up your processing.

Most scanners come with a standalone interface that allows you to scan directly to a file. For example, Microtek has the concept of dividing the scanner area into several images and scanning them into separate images, which may be saved separately. If your scanner software supports this, it is probably a faster way to scan large numbers of images than from within Photoshop.

I don’t think it’s possible 🙁
if it is, it’s interresting me 🙂