Problem with droplets in CS2

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spydersweb34
Feb 11, 2008
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I am having problems with a droplet in Photoshop CS2.

The droplet contains an action that does the following.

1. Downsizes the photo to 20 percent using bicubic sharper resampling.
2. saves the doc as "6" quality Jpeg.

That part works fine on single images, but when I used it in a droplet (so I could drop a whole folder of images and have the app downsie them all.) it behaves strangely. Sometimes
it downsizes and saves the images correctly, but then
at other times it gets to the save part and then
stops at the dialog box asking my input and OK
for the image quality. Sometimes the image quality
number is different than 6 and I must reenter the
correct number

I’ve never been able to get one of these droplets
to work without user interaction. I always have
this problem. Anyone else have experience with
this poblem and have a solution? I have several
thousands photos to do and I’d love to have this
work correctly.

Thanks.

Thom

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TK
Toobi-Won Kenobi
Feb 11, 2008
"spydersweb34" wrote in message
I am having problems with a droplet in Photoshop CS2.

The droplet contains an action that does the following.

1. Downsizes the photo to 20 percent using bicubic sharper resampling.
2. saves the doc as "6" quality Jpeg.

That part works fine on single images, but when I used it in a droplet (so I could drop a whole folder of images and have the app downsie them all.) it behaves strangely. Sometimes
it downsizes and saves the images correctly, but then
at other times it gets to the save part and then
stops at the dialog box asking my input and OK
for the image quality. Sometimes the image quality
number is different than 6 and I must reenter the
correct number

I’ve never been able to get one of these droplets
to work without user interaction. I always have
this problem. Anyone else have experience with
this poblem and have a solution? I have several
thousands photos to do and I’d love to have this
work correctly.

Thanks.

Thom
Never had much luck with droplets either, prefer to use File>Automate>Batch. Some background application could be interfering with the process, try stopping a few via TaskManager.

TWK

TWK
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spydersweb34
Feb 11, 2008
Thanks! I will try this.
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spydersweb34
Feb 11, 2008
Toobi-Wan,

I tried your solution – running this in batch mode.

When I did this, exactly the same problem occurred.
– action goes to save the image,
– the jpeg save image dialog box appears and requires keystroking – changing the number for jpeg quality (I already programmed the action to give it a "6" quality)
– then you have to hit return.
– I am left sitting there laboriously babysitting each and every image.

Other user experience reflects my own problem. this problem has reared its ugly head before, see http://tinyurl.com/246rd7.

Does this actually work on your system? I mean, you’ve tested it, know it works?

Thanks much

Thom
TK
Toobi-Won Kenobi
Feb 11, 2008
"spydersweb34" wrote in message
Toobi-Wan,

I tried your solution – running this in batch mode.

When I did this, exactly the same problem occurred.
– action goes to save the image,
– the jpeg save image dialog box appears and requires keystroking – changing the number for jpeg quality (I already programmed the action to give it a "6" quality)
– then you have to hit return.
– I am left sitting there laboriously babysitting each and every image.

Do you have "overide action "Save as""checked in the destination panel of Automate >Batch?
Other user experience reflects my own problem. this problem has reared its ugly head before, see http://tinyurl.com/246rd7.

I get a page 404 with the above link.
Does this actually work on your system? I mean, you’ve tested it, know it works?

Thanks much

Thom
TWK
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spydersweb34
Feb 11, 2008
I found THE answer, a very good working solution.
No more help needed, but for
all who are interested and I share what I found.

Dr. Russel Brown, the PhotoShop guru, has written a very comprehensive and
useful Adobe script that handles image resizing with grace and aplomb.
It does a lot of other very useful things to.

The script is called
"Dr. Brown’s 1-2-3 Process"

Go to this page
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
and scroll down or find
"Dr. Brown’s Services 1.5.1"

You can view the videos
Dr. Brown’s 1-2-3 Process Basic Tutorial; 11.6 MB

Dr. Brown’s 1-2-3 Process Advanced Tutorial; 18.9 MB

and then decide whether you want to download his
Adobe scripts. I did. They work beautifully.

What an amazing teacher!!

Thom
TK
Toobi-Won Kenobi
Feb 11, 2008
"spydersweb34" wrote in message
I found THE answer, a very good working solution.
No more help needed, but for
all who are interested and I share what I found.

Dr. Russel Brown, the PhotoShop guru, has written a very comprehensive and
useful Adobe script that handles image resizing with grace and aplomb.
It does a lot of other very useful things to.

The script is called
"Dr. Brown’s 1-2-3 Process"

Go to this page
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
and scroll down or find
"Dr. Brown’s Services 1.5.1"

You can view the videos
Dr. Brown’s 1-2-3 Process Basic Tutorial; 11.6 MB

Dr. Brown’s 1-2-3 Process Advanced Tutorial; 18.9 MB

and then decide whether you want to download his
Adobe scripts. I did. They work beautifully.

What an amazing teacher!!
He knows his stuff allright, his delivery tends to pall though after a while.;)
TWK

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