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Dan_Vallins
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February 20, 2012
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My custom action doesn't work on MASS images

  • February 20, 2012
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Hi All,

My action takes a jpeg page, and put's it onto a moleskin PSD. I tested it on a batch of ten images and it worked fine (see first image) but when I ask it to do a large quantity (697!) it outputs a lot of the files (not all) like the second image. Does anyone know what might be going wrong? I'm using Photoshop CS4 11.0.2.

Many thanks,

Dan

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Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

Hurrah! I got there at last. It seems it was the Place result that was the problem, as you cannot specify a zoom level in the actions, I saw that sometimes the layer was being pasted too far to the top left so I created an align action to ensure the layers were aligning to the bottom right hand corner of the master layer.

Thanks for all your help!


Insert Menu Item from the Actions Panel’s fly-out menu should let you insert View > Fit on Screen.

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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February 20, 2012

To work on just about any document actions need to be carfuly crafted to handle files with different sizes and image resolution.  Often a single action can not be crafted to do thing like populate any collage template for actions can not use logic.  Scripting is needed for logic.  Actions can use scripts so some logic can be added to actions.  I have made some free Photoshop downloadable packages available. I would suggest that you look at my Crafting Actions package and my Photo Collage Toolkit package's scripts. Here is a link to my downloads

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c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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February 20, 2012

Are the receiving and the placed document of the same resolution?

c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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February 20, 2012

Could you please post a screenshots of the two images with the pertinent Panels visible, explain which one gets placed and what the steps in the Action are?

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Dan_VallinsAuthor
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February 20, 2012

Hey, thanks for the quick reply!

Here are all the elements used for my action, along with a screenshot of the action.

The action should start with the spread with the girl.

FIN Book no strapnew.jpg is the open book image

NEW select layer.jpg is the black outline image

As I said before, it works fine if I use it on a small number of images, but when I used it on everything I needed more then 50% of the images turned out wrong.

Thanks for your help!

Dan

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