Can I perform an action, or is there a way to batch resize
Yes and erm – Yes!
First record an action to resize one image, including the save command, jpeg quality etc. Be sure to save the result to a different folder – you don’t want to be overwriting the originals!!
Now all you have to do is run a batch command on all your selected files, using that action and specifying the folder to which the resulting jpegs are to be saved.
Best of luck with it.
Chris.
If you have CS2, use the new Image Processor. It is under Tools>Photoshop. If you have CS, you can download Russell Brown’s Image Processor and use it. It is the same one. I find these invaluable.
It’s a bit funny to me that this question arose today, as a co-worker was just telling me a short while ago about how this is one of his annoyances with Photoshop….that batching requires an action. He wondered why Adobe doesn’t just provide an option for batching some specific command such as a resize, the way that can be done with ACDSee. Not being an ACDSee user, I’ve never seen how it works, but Thumbs Plus similarly allows one to define a batch that performs a resize and then saves the file. It feels faster using Thumbs Plus to do such a batch than doing it with PS, yet with the wealth of what can be performed with actions, PS is ulitmately more powerful. I use whichever app gets me from point A to B in the most convenient manner. The only thing I’d like to see done in PS is for all processing to be done in the background without actually opening and closing an image, as that surely must slow the process down. Similarly, if using a droplet, I’d like to see PS be launched as a background process.
Daryl
