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I’m having a lot of trouble getting some actions working as I want, and wonder if anyone here would be able to help me… (CS2 by the way.)
My action does a lot of stuff and most of it’s working, but there are two snags:
First problem is that I want to move/copy my signature from one opened image to another. Manually, I’d just click on the image containing the signature, select all (CTRL-A) and then Shift-Drag (so that position is maintained – both images are the same size and orientation) the signature to the other image. The signature file contains only the signature, already sized and positioned where I want it to appear. I just haven’t been able to get this step working in an action, and I’ve tried both manually clicking on that other image and using the Window menu to select it. Just doesn’t happen, although the action does appear to run and indeed continues to next steps.
The second issue is that I want to do a "Save for Web", but with a twist. I want to make sure my resulting JPG file is optimzed to 140k and doing it manually always works. The problem with the action is that it seems to record a quality level rather than the 140k limit, meaning that if the image I used to record the action ended up being 82 percent quality, all the remaining images would be the same. And that gives me file sizes all across the map! I want the highest quality that can be produced while keeping it within the 140k limit. And of course depending on the image, that might mean 100% quality or even down as low as 60%.
Suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks!
Eldor
My action does a lot of stuff and most of it’s working, but there are two snags:
First problem is that I want to move/copy my signature from one opened image to another. Manually, I’d just click on the image containing the signature, select all (CTRL-A) and then Shift-Drag (so that position is maintained – both images are the same size and orientation) the signature to the other image. The signature file contains only the signature, already sized and positioned where I want it to appear. I just haven’t been able to get this step working in an action, and I’ve tried both manually clicking on that other image and using the Window menu to select it. Just doesn’t happen, although the action does appear to run and indeed continues to next steps.
The second issue is that I want to do a "Save for Web", but with a twist. I want to make sure my resulting JPG file is optimzed to 140k and doing it manually always works. The problem with the action is that it seems to record a quality level rather than the 140k limit, meaning that if the image I used to record the action ended up being 82 percent quality, all the remaining images would be the same. And that gives me file sizes all across the map! I want the highest quality that can be produced while keeping it within the 140k limit. And of course depending on the image, that might mean 100% quality or even down as low as 60%.
Suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks!
Eldor
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