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hipgrrl
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June 6, 2010
Question

Change file name on save

  • June 6, 2010
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Hi all- I am new to scripting, and have come across a problem I am not able to figure out using conventional methods.

Part of my post processing calls for the crop and straighten filter. My action runs crop & straighten, closes the original file then after a couple more steps saves the resulting cropped  image as an uncompressed tiff. The problem is when the cropped file is created, Photoshop adds " copy" to the file name.

Is there any scripting way to remove " copy" from the file name during the save as tiff?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Michael_L_Hale
Inspiring
June 6, 2010

You should be able to change the name to anything you like including removing the word copy from the name. If you will post the save part of your script I will show you how to change it.

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hipgrrlAuthor
Participant
June 7, 2010

Thanks for the response.

I am currently not using scripting at all in my workflow so originally the steps of my action were as follows:

crop & straighten

select previous document

close current document without saving

place gif image into image (watermark)

flatten

save as uncompressed tiff to c:/highres

image size 72 DPI

fit image 900 px 900 px

save as jpeg to c:/lores

close

The workaround way I came up with to get around having copy in the  file name is to do:

crop & straighten

select all

cut

close current document without saving

paste

select transparency channel

crop

place gif image into image  (watermark)

flatten

save as uncompressed tiff to c:/highres

image size 72 dpi

fit image 900 px 900 px

save as jpeg to c:/lores

close

I would like to keep the action as it is in the first version and not have to use the workaround I came up with, so I can just add a script at the end to save the image and remove the word copy from the file name.

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