Photoshop Macro Help !

Wayne Scott · Aug 21, 2003

Hey guys ...

Just a quick question that any PS guru should be able to help me with ..

I just want to run an action that does Auto Levels on about 400 golf photo's. I've created the macro/action but because I'm saving as JPG it always ask the compression ratio ... and I have to hit OKAY each time.

I don't want to this as I want it done unattended ... what can I do ?

Thanks
Wayne

Moose · Aug 21, 2003

One way would be to save your JPGs into a folder(s) and create and run a simple PS script that performs the action on every image in the folder.

Wayne Scott said:
Hey guys ...

Just a quick question that any PS guru should be able to help me
with ..

I just want to run an action that does Auto Levels on about 400
golf photo's. I've created the macro/action but because I'm saving
as JPG it always ask the compression ratio ... and I have to hit
OKAY each time.

I don't want to this as I want it done unattended ... what can I do ?

Thanks
Wayne

Jesse F · Aug 21, 2003

I think this is due to you not checking the "override action save as" box in the automate dialog box.

if you click that it should operate by itself.

http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html

check out the tutorial on batch processing raw files, it explains a way to make "droplets" which are much more useful actions that can be run outside of photoshop, and are ideal for simple conversions.

Wayne Scott said:
Hey guys ...

Just a quick question that any PS guru should be able to help me
with ..

I just want to run an action that does Auto Levels on about 400
golf photo's. I've created the macro/action but because I'm saving
as JPG it always ask the compression ratio ... and I have to hit
OKAY each time.

I don't want to this as I want it done unattended ... what can I do ?

Thanks
Wayne

Wayne Scott · Aug 21, 2003

Thanks guys ...but -

I've tried creating droplets that run my PS action ... but it still asks me the jpg compression ratio when saving.

Action just does an auto levels. No save instruction.

When I create the droplet I tick the option to save and close in original folder. JPG compression question pops up ...

Any other ideas ... ?

Wayne

Benski · Aug 21, 2003

Wayne Scott said:
Any other ideas ... ?

Wayne

Record the save and jpeg compression ratio in your original action.

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Wayne Scott · Aug 21, 2003

Thats what I did the first time ... then because that didn't work ... I tried leaving out the save command in the action and let the droplet do the save and close for me. Still no luck.

I suppose I could save them as TIFF which doesn't ask any questions ... but I want the pics in JPG.

Wayne

Benski said:
Benski said:

Any other ideas ... ?

Wayne

Click to expand...

Record the save and jpeg compression ratio in your original action.

--
. Ben

equipment list in .profile

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