Action to save copy

My work flow is such that I open an original jpg file, do my edits, and then save a copy to the same folder.

I cannot figure out how to get an action to do this. The problem is that the action saves to the folder the action was recorded in, not the current folder.

Help is greatly appreciated!

Steve wrote:

My work flow is such that I open an original jpg file, do my edits, and then save a copy to the same folder.

I cannot figure out how to get an action to do this. The problem is that the action saves to the folder the action was recorded in, not the current folder.

You apparently need to manually set the folder each time. Maybe this will help explain somewhat:
< http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photograph y/raw-batch> Use the "Choose" button to select the destination folder. There was another option that paused with the saveas dialogue allowing to change the name so it doesn't overwrite but I suppose if you record "save a copy" that might automatically add "copy of...."

Thanks Paul. I have done the "save as" option. Problem with that is it automatically defaults to photoshop format and I want to save as a jpeg.

This seems so simple, but since I can't get it to work it slows down my work flow.

"paul" wrote in message

Steve wrote:

My work flow is such that I open an original jpg file, do my edits, and then save a copy to the same folder.

I cannot figure out how to get an action to do this. The problem is that the action saves to the folder the action was recorded in, not the current folder.

You apparently need to manually set the folder each time. Maybe this will help explain somewhat:
< http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photograph y/raw-batch> Use the "Choose" button to select the destination folder. There was another option that paused with the saveas dialogue allowing to change the name so it doesn't overwrite but I suppose if you record "save a copy" that might automatically add "copy of...."

With PS-CS save-as should not complain about added layers though 16 bit or cmyk would force PSD. Try save-for-web perhaps... I don't know why you are having problems. Presumably it works manually but the action thingy makes it barf?

Steve wrote:

Thanks Paul. I have done the "save as" option. Problem with that is it automatically defaults to photoshop format and I want to save as a jpeg.
This seems so simple, but since I can't get it to work it slows down my work flow.

"paul" wrote in message

Steve wrote:

My work flow is such that I open an original jpg file, do my edits, and then save a copy to the same folder.

I cannot figure out how to get an action to do this. The problem is that the action saves to the folder the action was recorded in, not the current folder.

You apparently need to manually set the folder each time. Maybe this will help explain somewhat:
< http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photograph y/raw-batch> Use the "Choose" button to select the destination folder. There was another option that paused with the saveas dialogue allowing to change the name so it doesn't overwrite but I suppose if you record "save a copy" that might automatically add "copy of...."

Steve, select your Action, then File, Automate, Batch. Choose a folder to save the batched files. All files will now be saved to this folder. Move the files to other folders after the batching to keep your chosen folder empty.

Brian

"Steve" wrote in message

My work flow is such that I open an original jpg file, do my edits, and then save a copy to the same folder.

I cannot figure out how to get an action to do this. The problem is that the action saves to the folder the action was recorded in, not the current folder.

Help is greatly appreciated!

Just noticed that you can save to the same folder (batch) in Image Ready.

"Brian K" <iibntgyea4 > wrote in message

Steve, select your Action, then File, Automate, Batch. Choose a folder to save the batched files. All files will now be saved to this folder. Move the files to other folders after the batching to keep your chosen folder empty.

Brian

Hmm, thanks. So you create an action in imageready to resize, set optimize preferences like no exif and compression, sharpen, stop the action recording and drag that from the action pallete to the desktop and it becomes a 'droplet' .exe file. Then drag image files onto that and it runs as a batch.

In the action menu > Batch Options > Same Folder As Droplet needs to be set before dragging the droplet off the action menu every time you make one. Saving into the same folder renames (and can easily overwrite if you aren't careful!)

Then what I did was create a folder on my desktop which contains the two droplets, the web resize droplet and a thumbnail droplet inside a subfolder named "thumbs". So I can copy this to my working folder, right-click it to 'explore' another window so that I can drop across windows. Drag the images onto the web resize folder then open yet another window for the thumbs and drag the web reduced images onto the thumbnail droplet and delete the two droplets. Kind of an odd procedure but works very nicely.

Brian K wrote:

Just noticed that you can save to the same folder (batch) in Image Ready.

"Brian K" <iibntgyea4 > wrote in message

Steve, select your Action, then File, Automate, Batch. Choose a folder to save the batched files. All files will now be saved to this folder. Move the files to other folders after the batching to keep your chosen folder empty.

Brian

Yes, create the action in Image Ready, right click the action and click Batch Options, again right click the action and click Create a droplet. I don't delete the droplet, it's used many times. Keep it anywhere that's handy and just drag your folder of images onto it. I don't save the images to the same folder however.

If you are making a web site, the images and thumbnails can be done in one step in Photoshop. File, Automate, Web Photo Gallery.

Brian

"paul" wrote in message

Hmm, thanks. So you create an action in imageready to resize, set optimize preferences like no exif and compression, sharpen, stop the action recording and drag that from the action pallete to the desktop and it becomes a 'droplet' .exe file. Then drag image files onto that and it runs as a batch.

In the action menu > Batch Options > Same Folder As Droplet needs to be set before dragging the droplet off the action menu every time you make one. Saving into the same folder renames (and can easily overwrite if you aren't careful!)

Then what I did was create a folder on my desktop which contains the two droplets, the web resize droplet and a thumbnail droplet inside a subfolder named "thumbs". So I can copy this to my working folder, right-click it to 'explore' another window so that I can drop across windows. Drag the images onto the web resize folder then open yet another window for the thumbs and drag the web reduced images onto the thumbnail droplet and delete the two droplets. Kind of an odd procedure but works very nicely.

Brian K wrote:

Just noticed that you can save to the same folder (batch) in Image Ready.

paul wrote:

Hmm...So you create an action in imageready to resize, set optimize preferences like no exif and compression, sharpen, stop the action recording and drag that from the action pallete to the desktop and it becomes a 'droplet' .exe file. Then drag image files onto that and it runs as a batch.

Unfortunately this does not handle mixed portrait & landscape images constrained to a common size. Surely there is a workaround, otherwise it is essentially useless or too much trouble to bother with.

I checked in the recorded action the resize shows 640 x 640 but portrait images come out 640 wide & 1000 or so high.

In Image Ready use a percentage of the original when you are creating the action. This gets around the Portrait, Landscape problem. In Photoshop there is no percentage choice for saving.

Brian

"paul" wrote in message

paul wrote:

Unfortunately this does not handle mixed portrait & landscape images constrained to a common size. Surely there is a workaround, otherwise it is essentially useless or too much trouble to bother with.
I checked in the recorded action the resize shows 640 x 640 but portrait images come out 640 wide & 1000 or so high.