[Jet-Poop]

a little photoshop question for anybody who can help...

i am writing an action to dummy proof the processing of images for a website. eventually it should be just come in, push a button, and once the updater is done with finding all the day's stories, all images should be done.

everything is working beautifully except...

does anybody know if there's a command in photoshop that will convert a file to a .jpg without someone having to manually tell it a filename and type to use? save as will bring up a dialog box and ask you to click save in order for it to work, some thing with save a copy. what I'm trying to do is write an action for each step, then another action that hands out several automate commands and processes all the other stuff into various directories. we get a lot of tifs and the like, and it's really the only major obstacle I've run into.

at the moment the action does the following:
converts cmyk, grayscale, indexed etc to RGB
intermediary 600 pixel width size just to make sure that if we have some tiny picture (<500 pix), it will link off to a bigger picture @500 pixels after the next step.
saves a copy at 500 max width (or 500 max height, depending on which is bigger) in separate folder.
saves another copy at 150 max width (or height) in separate folder.

at one point I had it placing a watermark over each image, but i think that's out at the moment.

if anybody knows of a way to convert a folder full of various file types to jpg with minimum babysitting, within photoshop, i would love you forever, or something. if not, does anybody know of any cheap (preferably free) solution to batch conversion of file types?

did I make any sense? I get this strange feeling that I did not.

thanks in advance...

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"Trumpy, you can do stupid things!"

[Jet-Poop]

to the top with you!

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"Trumpy, you can do stupid things!"

[Jorge]

Check if the Save actions have the little window icon on the left on or off. If that icon is on, the Save as... dialog window will pop up, if not PS will silently save with the same options you used when recording the action, I think.

If you want to apply a particular action to a bunch of files in a folder, try (translating from Spanish) File/Automate/Batch... I use 5.5 though, I do not know if that is available in other versions.

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Jorge

[This message has been edited by Jorge (edited September 06, 2000).]

[Jet-Poop]

yeah, the problem I'm having is that it saves with all of the same options you used when recording the action, including the filename. So if i automate the action on a folder it will rename each file with the same name, essentially deleting all my files.

what i need is a command like save as but without a filename...I think imageready2 might have a command like that but I don't know how compatible it is with photoshop actions/commands - and I feel pretty sure I've done a couple of things that imageready isn't entirely capable of.

thanks for the response though. really appreciate it.

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"Trumpy, you can do stupid things!"

[Jorge]

Ok, I confess I did not experiment a lot, but you could do it in 2 pass. Save the actions leaving saving out. Use batch processing and select the saving folder there. Then create another lone .jpg saving action and do batch process again on those new ones, so that the originals are kept intact.

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Jorge