Batch question

[Estivie]

Hi Folks,

I've made a batch to resize my images to website thumbnails, but it pop-ups for a jpg-quality when I choose 'save to folder'. Since this batch is ment for processing +600 images a time, this will be very anoying, sitting there and pressing "enter"...

Is there a workaround?

Thanks.

Stijn

[sPECtre]

IIRC, on the action, you just need to disable the icon with three points in there in front of the "save as JPG" step.

Welcome (back?) to PST!

[Gaussian]

Welcome to the board Estivie }$

[Estivie]

Thanks for replying guys!

Well... there is no save as jpg action... It's the standard "destination -> folder". The original files are jpg's from my digital camera. So it saves again as jpg, but asks me by every image which quality it should be.

Thanks again....

Stijn

[Estivie]

Hi guys,

Does really nobody has a clue how to work around this?

Thanks

Stijn

[natpoit]

Originally posted by Estivie
Hi guys,
Does really nobody has a clue how to work around this?
Thanks
Stijn
it works for me, i've made my action so:
1. open document
2. create new action "resize" f.e. recorder
3. make re-size
4. Stop recording (!!!) and close it WITHOUT SAVING!!! (may be this is your mistake).
Hope it works
And now go to automate:

[Estivie]

No, My action is the same, but I think it's because the file has never been opened by PS before. PS doesn't know how to save it (quality). Once you've saved it, PS will always take the same quality setting for that file, unless you choose "Save As...".

That's my problem...

I first workaround could be:

create a web album, and use those thumbnails for creating my thumbnails...

But that's 2x work, and for processing over 600 files, It should be handy if I can do it at once. So, if somebody has another workaround, I'm still looking for one!

Thans for trying to help me! ;}

Stijn

[natpoit]

may be more easy if you'll send your action?

I tried, but it didn't work... (and still doesn't....)

[Estivie]

I'm making a mess of it..$} Well, it did post my action, and that UNKNOWN user who did it was me :lol:

Stijn

[sPECtre]

Here is the info found at the user-to user forum posted by tony "YrbkMgr"

How do I avoid the pop-up box that asks for the JPEG quality levels?
If you want the option to rename the file, you can't eliminate that dialog.


All I want to do is do a batch save after I individually processed each picture but didn't save.
By "batch" I presume that you might have like 10 images open, worked on and you are now ready to save all of them. That's what I do every day and here's what I do.

I created a Save As action. I recorded File|Save As then let it save the default file name to a destination I specify. Now that destination is saved along with the action.

When I batch save, I will not want my files saved to that location, rather, a different location, but I want everything else (compression, etc.) the same.

I turn off the Save As dialog by toggling the square next to the action name (Save As JPG) off.

Then I run File|Automate|Batch. In the batch dialog, I specify the action to be run (Save As JPG), source=open files, I choose my intended destination, and CHECK the box that says "Override Save As Information". Optionally, I choose a naming convention. If I don't choose a naming convention, they will save with the existing file names.

Hit go.

You will not be able to choose a name for each file, it will either rename them all (according to your desires) or use the default name, so have the names straight before you batch process, or use the naming convention in the batch dialong.

If you meant something other than that by using the word "Batch", let me know - it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
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hope this helps,

[Estivie]

Works great, :&

Thanks sPECtre! }$

Stijn.

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