Photoshop Batch Actions – What is Earliest Version That Will Do This?

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David_Stokes
May 1, 2005
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I posted this a month ago but did not receive an answer regarding capability of earlier versions of Photoshop.

I have several hundred photographs, the processing of which I need to automate. Would it be practical for me to create actions to:

1.auto rotate and crop, stopping for me to confirm?
2. auto enhance levels, stopping for me to confirm?
3. save as compressed TIF (action stopping to allow me to input file name)
4. reduce image size to 400 pixels
5. save image as medium jpeg (action stopping to allow me to input file name)
6. close file

Elements 1 has so far been sufficient for my needs until now. I understand that I will need a full version (not LE) of Photoshop to enable batch actions. I don’t want to invest in PhotoShop CS just for this one task but might be able to buy an earlier full version of Photoshop for a reasonable price. What would be the earliest version that would cope?

many thanks

Davy

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YrbkMgr
May 1, 2005
The only show stopper for using any version of photoshop from 5.5 and above is step number one.

If you’ve used elements, then I presume that you are referring to the Auto Rotate that is in PE. That feature wasn’t introduced into Photoshop until CS.

But depending on what result you are trying to achieve with the "auto rotate and crop", there may be a workaround, thus allowing a previous version to work.

So, if you’re trying to rotate from portrait orientation to landscape, for example, that is easily accomplished in any version of PS. And since you’re willing to have a confirmation dialog, you can incorporate your own crop step that allows you to adjust, confirm, or deny a cropping event.

So, again, it depends on what you need out of step one.

Peace,
Tony
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David_Stokes
May 2, 2005
I have found a CD for version 4 and it does support batch actions. So question answered. Many thanks

David

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