P: Export As does not support Actions or scripting

Has anyone from Adobe admitted this is simply a bug? It's clearly a bug/ accidental omission.

The last Save for Web dialog supports actions, so its replacement obviously should. Probably just overlooked this in development of the new feature.

3rd party solutions like Image Processor may make for an effective band-aid, but clearly shouldn't be relied upon for so simple a task in the long term. I don't believe it's terribly constructive to our goals of getting this feature re-implemented in photoshop to support 3rd party band-aids either.

This is a bit of a joke. So... I've just had to look up and find Image Processor Pro... downloaded it from Sourceforge and then looked again for install instructions. To do that I've then had to go to Creative Cloud, install Extension Manager CC.

Except when I try to install ImageProcessorPro-3_2b5.zxp it tells me 'This extension can not be installed, it requires Photoshop version 12 or greater.' So this is not a terribly easy or enjoyable process of discovery so far. 

Anyway now I'm wondering why I'm being encouraged to install a 3rd party script via an opaque and clunky multi-step process; all to try and gain some of the functionality and efficiency that Export seemed at first glance to promise several versions back.

Hey, if I'd bought a boxed copy of CC I wouldn't be as frustrated... but when I rent software and am always being told about exciting new and improved features to make my life easier... and I know Adobe's profits have soared since CC was launched... it sticks in my craw that they coded a core feature so it (a) doesn't support Actions and (b) 
the "Export As" dialog does not correctly support OS X's standard Accessibility features (so VoiceOver and other accessibility functions don't work there either) which means it doesn't work with 3rd party OS enhancements.

That kinda sucks...

Try using Image Processor Pro.

"I'm wanting to do something like this during a batch: run a 3rd party plugin, change colour space / profile, resize, sharpen, add metadata, and then save a couple of different file formats or sizes to different output folders."

you can do exactly that using Image Processor Pro.

Thanks Jeffrey, appreciate the tip. However, +1 from me too for action-based processing inside Photoshop, as part of a more involved multi-step post-processing workflow.

I'm wanting to do something like this during a batch: run a 3rd party plugin, change colour space / profile, resize, sharpen, add metadata, and then save a couple of different file formats or sizes to different output folders.

Also, the Export dialogue allows me to save JPEGs wider than 8192px, which Save for Web doesn't. What is frustrating is that Save for Web has been deprecated and we're encouraged to use Export instead... but it has reduced functionality.

Hey there,

 

i think my problem is similar to yours. I am trying to run a photo resizing action for a batch. It includes Save for web (which seems to be called as "Export as" in the new CC). I would like to be able to set the destination folder in the Automate batch window, because it is different for each of my batches. I understand, that i have to choose the destination folder than tick the box Override action "save as" commands. But it doesn't want to change the folder, it simply saves the photos in the folder that is specified in the action. So the Override doesn't seem to work in the case of Save for web.  I wonder if this is the same bug in photoshop or I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you in advance.

This doesn't solve the problem. The problem isn't that you cannot export multiple images... it is that it won't work as an action. 

Using a third party plugin might work fine on a single machine (don't know if IPP supports Actions?) but the advantage of an action mean you can export that workflow across multiple machines in an office, share a tutorial online ... 

Having dependencies that an action requires outside the Photoshop Core means you can't do this.

as part of an action?

I would suggest using the Image Processor Pro plugin. You can easily save multiple sizes simultaneously in multiple formats...