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Mutt · 07-05-2003, 06:18 AM

arggghhhh....... i am waging a war with Photoshop and she has kicked my ass up and down the block, i am bloodied and battered.

I'm trying to use PS's batch feature, an 'action' to desaturate some pix, thumb them and compress the thumbs with 'Save for Web'. It won't do it, for every file I get the Save for Web thing popping up and asking me to type in a filename - that's no good, i want it done automatically, that's the whole point. If I take the 'Save for Web' step out of the action and use Photoshops 'Save As' the batching works. But using 'Save As' produces thumbs that are 18 KB versus 4 KB using 'Save for Web'.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or is what I'm trying to do is not possible?

i'll use Arles but I hate to give up without a fight.

Thank you

07-05-2003, 06:18 AM
Mutt Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 34,431	Photoshop Batch Automation - Help! arggghhhh....... i am waging a war with Photoshop and she has kicked my ass up and down the block, i am bloodied and battered. I'm trying to use PS's batch feature, an 'action' to desaturate some pix, thumb them and compress the thumbs with 'Save for Web'. It won't do it, for every file I get the Save for Web thing popping up and asking me to type in a filename - that's no good, i want it done automatically, that's the whole point. If I take the 'Save for Web' step out of the action and use Photoshops 'Save As' the batching works. But using 'Save As' produces thumbs that are 18 KB versus 4 KB using 'Save for Web'. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or is what I'm trying to do is not possible? i'll use Arles but I hate to give up without a fight. Thank you __________________ I moved my sites to Vacares Hosting. I've saved money, my hair is thicker, lost some weight too! Thanks Sly!