JPEG Quick Action

[quirky_care1682]

I'm doing illustrations in Photoshop and using Bridge to sort through them.

Every now and then, when going through older illustrations, I have the case where I am like "oh I don't need a .psd file of this sketch anymore, since I never worked further on it". So I usually export a JPEG and delete the PSD. 

Does anyone know if there is a way to save these actions (make JPEG, delete PSD) and bind a key to them? i really would like this to be simple so I could just press a single key and move on. 

[ExUSA]

You would need to write a script most likely.

[gary_sc]

There might be an easier way to do this without a script, although I'm not sure that this will do more or less than what you need. That's to use the Workflow capabilities within Bridge. Here are two videos to see what it can do and how to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBpUotEbsCM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ynHvvQZm68

Although let me add that throwing out the PSD is potentially not a good idea. You may wish to save it to another hard drive to avoid clutter, but the most important file you should store is either a TIF or a PSD. They should have all your layers and enhancements, with none of the degradation the JPG has.

If file space is your concern, the way that I dealt with that is to have all of my images on a separate hard drive. I have a 2nd hard drive that I back up the first one to, so if one fails, I have the 2nd drive. I also subscribe to a cloud service in the chance that the house burns down. That may be overkill, but I sleep at night.

Regardless of what you end up doing, I hope the two videos help your goal.