I would do as Tom suggests. Make the conversion with a new folder as a destination and then just delete the old folder yourself. If you have multiple destination folders, separate them later. If you are changing format, say jpeg to tiff, you can make the same folder the destination, later reorder by type, and then delete the jpegs in a couple of mouse clicks. As Tom mentioned, use the file>automate>batch, that will leave only a couple of minor things for you to do yourself. If the destination folders are eventually all different, batch convert first, then simply hand move the files to the new folders with windows explorer. I think that would be faster than trying to have an action stop everytime the "save as" came up. Also, you can use cataloging programs such as IMatch. There you can convert files or resize. Then you could pick all of your tree photos and put them in one folder, your duck photos in another folder, etc (provided you have already cataloged them. But then if they are cataloged, you don’t need to move them anywhere, because you can find them where they are already at.
It all very subjective, and nothing is work free. Mine is just one suggestion of many ways to do this.
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On 5-Feb-2004, "Mark Bolton" wrote:
Hello all…this is another simple one for all you experts Im sure…Ive tried doing a google search for this, but nothing comes up exactly
right.
I
simply have a folder of Tiffs, all the right size, that I want to
convert
to
JPEGs, with a little sharpening. (for viewing by my stock agencies). When
I record the action, PS always wants to know which folder that I want to save in…which is fine, except that each folder is different, and I
have
to
rerecord the action each time, so that the folder to save in is the
right
one each time. Is there a way to set up an action that simply takes the file, converts it to a jpeg (the correct compression aswell), sharpens
it,
and the WRITES OVER the original? It would be nice to open up batch, press
a button, and end up with a folder with all the files as I want
them…is
it
a bit obvious, and am I missing something? Thanks in advance, Mark
Record the action, then run it from File/Automate/Batch and choose folder for the destination, select the folder you want, and check Overide output options.
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