Wow, I seriously thought I had already tried that, but I just went back and modified the Action and it worked! Such a simple answer, I can’t believe I didn’t find it myself! Thank you so much…!
I’d still like to know the comparison between the Save for Web quality scale and the JPEG Options quality scale if anyone knows.
Thanks!
– Holly
Okay well I spoke a little too soon! Now I remember why "Save As" gives me trouble when I use it in an Action: the action remembers the specific file name and uses that exact filename every time the Action runs, instead of the current file’s filename. I just ran my batch process on the 1000 photos and when it finished, they were all still unaffected, except for one file which I suppose was re-saved over 1000 times!
Can anybody HELP me fix this? My deadline seems to be pushing down harder on my shoulders!
Thanks!
– Holly
Holly,
I think when they added SFW they wanted to keep it simple (percentages) as oposed to the 1-12 (still a percentage, it just didn’t make as much sense). Save for web also leaves out color profiles and other unnecessary information for web publishing.
Have you tried Microsoft PowerToy "Resize Image"?
Hey that program worked great! The "Custom" settings allowed me to specify the size I wanted the images to be, and it finished them all very quickly!! Thanks for the great tip!
It’s a shame that Photoshop has a limitation such as this, that a simple plug-in for Windows can do better. Perhaps with CS 2…?
– Holly
Photoshop doesn’t have any such limitation.
You just used the wrong options.
Well can you tell me how to do it in Photoshop then for next time? I’d like to know this answer so that I can use it with other actions I use for batch processing and saving. The ‘Save As’ solution didn’t work – it saved all the batched files as the one same file name that I used when first recording the Action. I don’t mean to sound defensive, but nobody has offered an accurate solution for the original problem yet. This has come up for me several times and I’d really love to know how to work around the issue.
Thanks!
I’d like to know too, as I’ve given the wrong answer a couple times, apparently. 🙂
Save As, and override save directory in the batch options.
Okay yay! Thank you! I think it finally actually worked! I’m redoing them all because I noticed that the Windows plug-in left a lot of degradation in the quality.
Thanks Chris for the answer! The pop-up dialog for "Override Action Save As Commands" had confused me when it said,
"…files will be saved to the destination folder only by ‘save as’ steps in the action. If there are no ‘save as’ steps, no files will be saved",
yet it’s called "Override Action ‘Save As’ Commands" which makes it sound like it’s going to cancel out any ‘Save As’ commands happening in the Action. The pop-up dialog seemed contradictory to what the command was called, so that’s why I wasn’t sure how it worked.
Thanks again for shedding light on this for me and others! 🙂
– Holly
I noticed that the Windows plug-in left a lot of degradation in the quality.
Exactly! This little function is fine for punters who just want to email a bunch of pics to fambly and frends but you have no control over what the Windows process does.
Having said that I wish some of my old pals would stop emailing me pics straight off their 5 Mp cameras.
fambly and frends
That’s "frins"
– Mike
