Any way of batch-exporting JPGs with quality&size settings similar to "export as" would be nice...

[Falrinth]

Right now we have to either use artboards to quickly export JPGs for multiple "files" (and lets face it, having to many artboards with large dimensions and lot of layers slows down photoshop to a crawl at some point and itsnt optimal way of working), or use batch option that uses actions, that dont want to catch "export as" action when recording. So all you can do is "save as jpg" where results have huge KB size no matter the quality settings (like 6mb for a jpg that comes with 800KB in "export as" JPG with 75% quality).

I have seen this problem appearing for years now in google searches. Its 2020, you add some funny "AI powered" gimmicks, yet you didnt touch this subject for years. Its as unusable as it was. Sometimes you just want to export multiple PSDs quickly as JPGs with reasonable quality/size settings, and you cant use Photoshop to do that, but have to either try to build an artboard based PSD and import all the PSDs there as artboards or go one by one with "export as" dialog... Both require to much time to be reasonable.

Is there any chance you will at some point consider making people's lifes easier with your expensive software? Time becomes more and more precious every passing year. It is really what you should be thinking about as important. Not everyone uses photoshop with tones of time to play around with a single file. Lots of us are using it also more technically (as opposite to only joyfull creative experience alone) and constantly on the clock and looking for ways to cut time waste.

Thank you.

[Bojan Živković · Accepted solution]

Please post your request on Photoshop family https://feedback.photoshop.com/ site which is monitored by Adobe engineers and employees, here are mostly volunteers which can not help much when new feature request in question.

Have you tried using Save for Web option or to utilize Image Processor Pro which offers multiple exports with image optimized for web?

[D Fosse]

For batch exporting, use Save For Web. It will do just what you want. I have several SFW actions that I batch process all the time.

Yes, there are still some dealbreakers with Export, and this is one of them. I don't understand why they can't finish the job.

[Stephen Marsh]

As suggested, export/save for web can be recorded into an action for use with batch – or just use Image Processor Pro to do all the work as it also has an option to use S4W:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ps-scripts/files/Image%20Processor%20Pro/v3_2%20betas/

Edit:

Save for Web removes unnecessary metadata, which can sometimes bloat the saved files.

One can also remove excessive metadata in other ways:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/06/metadata-bloat-photoshopdocumentancestors.html

[Falrinth]

Thank you everyone! Yes that legacy exporting is indeed noticed by that action recorder. Just recalled thats exactly what i have been using years ago with batch. Havent had any need for batch since then and forgot about that legacy exporting to try now.

[Kukurykus]

Hire some scripter that will adapt Photoshop Generator from Photoshop Required folder (quick export, image assets) that you can export layers the way you want instead of waiting several years till Adobe do it themselves.

[willcampbell7]

Maybe this will help...

https://www.marspremedia.com/software/photoshop/batch-multi-save

Or perhaps the script would solve your challenge with some modification? It's unclear what you start with, and what result you want. The free script above I made to create multiple versions of an image, for example a final print TIF and web JPEG. When I make images for web I "set" (not resample) res to 72, limit max res to 1200x800, and set quality 8. Most results are small files. Seems maybe this is what you are wanting? I can only guess, please elaborate if I'm off track here. "Save for Web" isn't anything special. It's just lower res and lower quality. This script offers the user to set the desired values and get there too.

[overtinker]

Been doing this for years.  As long as you don't want _too_ much control, you can use File -> Scripts -> Image Processor.  Eitehr have all your images open, or give it a source folder; give it a destination folder; then tick Save as JPEG with desired quality, and resize if you want.  It's a _very_ constrained tool, but for literally batch-exporting lower-quality JPEGs, that's its day job.

[Stephen Marsh]

Been doing this for years.  As long as you don't want _too_ much control, you can use File -> Scripts -> Image Processor.  

By @overtinker

Edit: Yes, that is another option with fewer options than Image Processor Pro.

For specifically saving layers/groups/artboards:

Adobe has a default "File > Export > Layers to Files" script, or one can use alternative scripts or "File > Export > Artboards To Files" script:

https://github.com/antipalindrome/Photoshop-Export-Layers-to-Files-Fast

https://github.com/Paul-Riggott/PS-Scripts/blob/master/Layer%20Saver.jsx

https://github.com/Paul-Riggott/PS-Scripts/blob/master/Layer%20Saver%20Plus.jsx

https://github.com/mechanicious/photoshopCompositionComposer

Batch:
https://www.marspremedia.com/software/photoshop/save-layers