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MastaMind82
MastaMind82
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February 14, 2011
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Is this asking too much from scripting?

  • February 14, 2011
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I am looking at making a script to do some repetative tasks (I have about 3,000 images I need this to work with).  I'll lay out my thought and if it is possible let me know and I will do more research into making it work, otherwise I'll do it the hard way.  Here is the need:

Open Image

     - Resize to 12 x 12 @ 300 DPI

     - Save Image with "-12x12" added to end of file name

     - Copy new 12 x 12 to "template1" photoshop document.

     - Close 12x12 doc.

     - Resize image on "template 1" to fit the template (template is 4 x 4 @ 72 dpi)

     - Save for web and devices with "-thumbnail" added to original documents name

     - Copy template 1 image to template 2

     - Again resize and save for web and devices adding "-thumbnail2" to original documents name.

Basically that is what I need to do,  right now I have an action that can do all of that, but I would love it if I could get it to do all the file naming without me having to type it all in for each image.  So at the end I would like the files to look like such:

picture001

picture001-12x12

picture001-thumbnail

picture001-thumbnail2

The biggest issue is when I do a save for web and devices the default name in the dialog box is the actual document name, I need the document names to carry over with the proper addtions to them.  Is this possible to automate the entire process or am I asking for too much?

Thank you,

Dave

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Correct answer xbytor2

If this is all one action, don't put the 'save' steps in your action. Write a bit of javascript that does the save with the filename tweaking that you need.

For steps that already have the 'save' step builtin (SFW, for instance), write a bit of javascript that renames/copies the file after that step.

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xbytor2Correct answer
Inspiring
February 14, 2011

If this is all one action, don't put the 'save' steps in your action. Write a bit of javascript that does the save with the filename tweaking that you need.

For steps that already have the 'save' step builtin (SFW, for instance), write a bit of javascript that renames/copies the file after that step.

MastaMind82
MastaMind82Author
Participant
February 14, 2011

Thank you for the quick response,  good idea on doing the file naming after the action takes place... I didn't think of doing that.  I'll get going on writing the javascript and let you know how it turns out for me.  Thanks again

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