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Inspiring
March 17, 2025
Question

Create an Action to Save an Image to Jpeg from PS that has been sent to PS from LR Classic 24.4.1

  • March 17, 2025
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When I send RAW images to PS from Lightroom classic I have several Actions I created which allow me to save a small jpeg of the image as a copy for Instagram into a specific folder and then close the image from PS without saving. This has worked for many years. (I do realise that the RAW images sent from LR to PS are not RAW anymore and that they are converted to TIFF's for editing). Now when I use the same Action the copied image is overwritten every time with the same file name! I have experimented with creating new actions to save a copy of a RAW image to a smaller Jpeg for Instagram by selecting ‘save a copy’ and changing TIFF to Jpeg, but every time the last image that was saved as a Jpeg is replaced by the latest file image I am saving when i run the action I have just created, so something has changed in this version of PS 26.4.1 which does not allow me to create an action to save copies of image files with different filenames without overwriting and replacing the image that was last saved! Hopefully, you understand my explanation. Can you assist in helping me create an Action which will save several images as individual new ‘copy’ files and not replacing or overwriting the previous file?

Regards, Ray. (London UK)

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Inspiring
March 17, 2025

Ray, take a look at what I did to save JPEG files. It works fine for me in PS 36.4.1, but it does not resize the file. It was never intended to do that. Perhaps someone can help you add code to resize the file before saving. Hope it works for you.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/saving-jpegs-via-an-action/idc-p/15015669#M24091