"Save As" gets in the way of my actions!

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Raji_Barbir
Jul 13, 2007
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I’ve been having this problem forever… I must be missing something really small.

I often try to run actions on, say a folder full of wedding pictures. I want to save them out to the same format and name as originally but just resize them with the action.

The problem creeps up when Photoshop asks me for every single jpeg file what the settings should be before i save…

How do i get rid of that? I looked at the File Handling menu under Preferences and i have it set to Always Save. Shouldn’t that be it? I also tried recording a save action and checked the Override Action "Save As" Commands on. I’m really at a loss, any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Raji

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John_Schwaller
Jul 13, 2007
Hi, Raji…

I developed an action to do similar. What I did was to set up a standard directory which I save the resized files to and then would move them out to the directory I wanted them in later.

Now, I use Image Processor (actually the new Dr. Russell Brown 1-2-3 Process for CS3). I think you will find it easier to use and more flexible. Dr. Brown has tutorials to take you through the functions on his site (for CS, CS2 and/or CS3).

I start these by selecting the images in Bridge, then executing from Bridge ‘Tools’.

John
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Tom Glowka
Jul 13, 2007
Raji

I do this all the time. Here’s how I started:

I created a folder called "Resized" on my desktop. Opened PS, then opened one of my pictures, created a new action, started the record, and recorded as I resized the image, saved it to the "Resized" folder and closed it. Then stopped the action. Then I choose File/Automate/Batch choose my new action, uncheck all the boxes in the Batch window, Source = Folder (originals), destination = None, then click Go. Then I sit back and watch them all convert with no stops! Voila!
RB
Raji_Barbir
Jul 13, 2007
thanks guys for the responses. I do appreciate those very much and i hope they will serve others as well. I don’t want to sound like a jerk but i did know i could move all the files to a different folder so that photoshop wouldn’t ask me what the jpg settings should be, which only seems to happen when you want to overwrite an old file… this is weird but yeah i discovered that a while back.

What i wanted was to maintain the folder structure i’d created for the files which is why i was trying to avoid that solution (Saving to a different folder) and just save the files on top of themselves.

So right after i made the post (this ALWAYS happens to me), i stumbled on the solution.

I was looking through the help files and it said something about making sure to Save _AS_ the same file name etc. Up to that point, when i recorded the Save command in the action, i just hit Ctrl+S to save. So i recorded a Save _AS_ command instead and overwrote the old file and then ran the Automate>Batch command but checked the "Override Action ‘Save As’ Commands" and it worked great. I overwrote the old files with the new ones.

whoa… hope this helps those who had the same problem and guys, thanks again for your responses, i’m sure they’ll help many with that problem. This is kind of a tricky issue in PS.

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