Have You tried deleting the New Document-item from the recorded Action and replacing it with an »Insert Menu Item« of File New?
Yes, I tried that and each new document is still opening with the same name:(
Just to make sure: When You click the triangle next to the »Make« in the Actions-panel what does it say?
And does the Action close the previous new Document before creating a new one or leave them all open?
Under "Make" it looks like this:
New: document
Preset: "Clipboard"
The Action does not close the previous new documents. They all are open with the same name (i.e. Untitled-1)
Thanks
The behaviour also occurs at my station if I record hitting command-N, whereas if I call up »Insert Menu Item« from the flyout-menu of the Actions-panel and select »File New« it will number the new files correctly but the New File-dialog appears and I have to hit the backspace-key every time so thats no good either
I found a whack workaround though (which sometimes seem easier than trying to understand the mysterious behaviour of programs), namely entering a recording of »New« with some arbitrarily entered very small dimension (to minimize the time it takes) and closing that immediately before every iteration of the recorded »New« with the Clipboard-Preset.
Maybe someone can figure out why that helps?
Anyway: Could You explain in more detail the purpose and application of Your Action? Because maybe the copy-paste-part could be replaced with »Image Duplicate« if it should be the whole image You copy.
Christoph,
First off, I truly appreciate the time you are taking trying to help me resolve my problem.
Next, here is the reason for the action. One of the things I do is picture montages, involving 100 or more pictures. Do speed up the time of getting the pictures scanned in, I scan 4 pictures at a time (the most that fill fit the scanner glass). Then, I open all of these docs, and I marque each particular picture and run the action. The action actually, copies, pastes, rotates, color corrects, and flatten the image. I do this relatively quickly. What I end up with is 100+ images sitting on my desktop, consecutively number in the order that I did them. Then all I have to do is "Close All" and hit Return about 200 times. Very easy. The problem I have now is that since all the new documents are opening with the same number, it messes up my automation with the "Close All."
The solution I have opted for was to reinstall Photoshop CS2, and use the older App just for this process.
Thanks,
Daniel
Youre welcome.
Have You tried using File Automate Crop and Straighten Photos to avoid having to marquee the individual images yet?
And saving 100 previously unsaved images should be able to be automated with a javascript
unfortunately Im not a good scripter and anyway Im off shortly but if I can come up with something or find an appropriate Script Ill let You know.
I have to marquee them because there are 4 images in one doc that I have to pull off one at a time. (To speed up the scanning)
Thanks:)
Once again just to make sure: You know that the »Crop and Straighten Photos«-feature attempts to pick multi-image-scans apart?
Paul R has posted Scripts to automatically apply »Crop and Straighten Photos« to multiple Scans of multiple images and save the resulting files (as either jpg or tiff):
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http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b7368d>
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http://photoshoptechniques.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27131> (look for »ScanToFile.zip«)
Do the color-corrections You apply require individual input from You or are they applied to all the images the same?
Daniel, could You give this Script a try?
It should save all the open documents that have never been saved to the desktop; it provides a dialog to enter a name and then numbers the files.
One could also create a dialog to select a save-to-location but like I said Im not a good Scripter.
Be careful though, if files of the same name and number should exist on the desktop they would be overwritten without alerting You; that could be avoided some conditional clauses
maybe Ill try that later.
// this script is spposed to save all open documents that have never been saved as tiffs to the desktop;
#target photoshop
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var saveLocation = "~/Desktop/"
var theDocumentList = app.documents;
var theCount = 0;
//create dialog fo name-entry;
var dlg = new Window(‘dialog’, "save unsaved documents to the desktop", [500,300,880,420]);
//create the entry for the name;
dlg.msgPnl2 = dlg.add(‘panel’, [25,15,350,105], ‘please enter a name for unsaved documents’);
dlg.msgPnl2.msgEt = dlg.msgPnl2.add(‘edittext’, [15,20,305,40], "untitled_", {multiline:false});
dlg.msgPnl2.buildBtn = dlg.msgPnl2.add(‘button’, [13,50,158,65], ‘OK’, {name:’ok’});
dlg.msgPnl2.cancelBtn = dlg.msgPnl2.add(‘button’, [168,50,313,65], ‘Cancel’, {name:’cancel’});
//retrieve the selection;
var myReturn = dlg.show ();
if (myReturn == true) {
//get the name;
var theName = dlg.msgPnl2.msgEt.text;
//save tiffs;
for (var k = 0 ; k < theDocumentList.length; k++) {
try {var forgetThisVariable = theDocumentList[k].path}
catch (e) {
theCount = theCount+1;
tifOpts = new TiffSaveOptions();
tifOpts.embedColorProfile = true;
tifOpts.imageCompression = TIFFEncoding.TIFFLZW;
tifOpts.alphaChannels = true;
tifOpts.byteOrder = ByteOrder.MACOS;
tifOpts.layers = true;
app.activeDocument = theDocumentList[k];
theDocumentList[k].saveAs((new File(saveLocation+theName+zeroPad(theCount, 3)+".tif")), tifOpts, false, Extension.LOWERCASE);
}
}
}
else {};
// zerp-padding by paul r;
function zeroPad(n, s) {
n = n.toString();
while (n.length < s) n = ‘0’ + n;
return n;
};
Ive tried to improve the two things mentioned in above post. Very probably it is still in bad form, but it seems to work for me, so if You havent tried the old one please try this Script instead, but be cautious and dont risk Your original files:
// this script is spposed to save newly created documents that have never been saved as tiffs;
#target photoshop
var theDocumentList = app.documents;
var theCount = 0;
//dialog for target-folder;
var saveLocation = Folder(Folder.selectDialog("Select Folder to save to"));
//create dialog fo name-entry;
var dlg = new Window (‘dialog’, "save unsaved documents to the desktop", [500,300,880,420]);
//create the entry for the name;
dlg.msgPnl2 = dlg.add(‘panel’, [25,15,350,105], ‘please enter a name for unsaved documents’);
dlg.msgPnl2.msgEt = dlg.msgPnl2.add(‘edittext’, [15,20,305,40], "a_", {multiline:false});
dlg.msgPnl2.buildBtn = dlg.msgPnl2.add(‘button’, [13,50,158,65], ‘OK’, {name:’ok’});
dlg.msgPnl2.cancelBtn = dlg.msgPnl2.add(‘button’, [168,50,313,65], ‘Cancel’, {name:’cancel’});
//retrieve the selection;
var myReturn = dlg.show ();
if (myReturn == true) {
//get the name;
var theName = dlg.msgPnl2.msgEt.text;
//save tiffs;
for (var k = 0 ; k < theDocumentList.length; k++) {
// find out if file has a path and therefore doesnt need to be saved;
try {var forgetThisVariable = theDocumentList[k].path}
// if file has no path save it to the target-location;
catch (e) {
theCount = theCount+1;
tifOpts = new TiffSaveOptions();
tifOpts.embedColorProfile = true;
tifOpts.imageCompression = TIFFEncoding.TIFFLZW;
tifOpts.alphaChannels = true;
tifOpts.byteOrder = ByteOrder.MACOS;
tifOpts.layers = true;
app.activeDocument = theDocumentList[k];
// if file with that name and number exists increase the count until the number is higher than the highest one found;
if (File(saveLocation+"\/"+theName+zeroPad(theCount, 3)+".tif").exists) {
while (File(saveLocation+"\/"+theName+zeroPad(theCount, 3)+".tif").exists == true) {
theCount = theCount+1
}
}
else {};
theDocumentList[k].saveAs((new File(saveLocation+"\/"+theName+zeroPad(theCount, 3)+".tif")), tifOpts, false, Extension.LOWERCASE)
}
}
}
else {};
// zero-padding by paul r;
function zeroPad(n, s) {
n = n.toString();
while (n.length < s) n = ‘0’ + n;
return n;
};
Christoph,
Thank you sooooo much for all your help and sorry for the delay in my response. I have just been finishing a big project.
I’ve decided that it is just the easiest to have a copy of Photoshop CS2 on my computer just for the montage creations. However, the links to the cropping scripts you previously sent me have been huuuge time savers.
Thanks again for all your help.
Daniel
Youre welcome.
When it comes to automating tasks and if one is willing to delve into JavaScript (or even AppleScript) the Photoshop Scripting forum is well worth checking out, because some extremely knowledgeable persons are prone to generously give their advice there.
