excute photoshop script or action on multiple images at same time

[abolfazl29032603daba]

I have about 500 number of JPG files that i must excute my photoshop recorded action on them.

If i excute photoshop action using batch feature on my JPG files then it run one by one and take long time to complete.

now i want to excute my action on every 10 or 20 files at same time, are there any trick or method for this?

Is it possible to run photoshop multiple times on a pc? is there any super lite version of photoshop to run multiple times?

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

Simply put:

NO

What you want isn't possible. Photoshop can only work on the active document, one file at a time. Opening more than one file at a time will simply use more memory while one file is processed.

What are the steps in the action? There might be an alternative such as Adobe Camera Raw batch processing.

Also, as JPEG is a lossy file format, each time the image is opened, edited and saved, cumulative damage is introduced. The quality loss may or may not be visible depending on the editing, however, multiple edits should be avoided.

[abolfazl29032603daba]

Simply put:

NO

What you want isn't possible. Photoshop can only work on the active document, one file at a time. Opening more than one file at a time will simply use more memory while one file is processed.

What are the steps in the action? There might be an alternative such as Adobe Camera Raw batch processing.

Also, as JPEG is a lossy file format, each time the image is opened, edited and saved, cumulative damage is introduced. The quality loss may or may not be visible depending on the editing, however, multiple edits should be avoided.

By @Stephen Marsh

no problem, Output quality is not important to me. 

this is a sample action that i recorded and converted to photoshop script for you to understand what i want to do: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NGvP30tnrKh1AfH2LOZ_Sqqt1cQ_sCPM/view?usp=sharing

1) Note that for excute main.jsx you must replace following lines with path of sub-scripts: 

path of color_range_2_rectangular_selectionn.jsx in line 7955

path of space_layers.jsx in line 8120

path of spl2lay.jsx in line 8869 

path of Flip_only_selected_layers_horizontal.jsx in line 8920 

2) Note that this is only a sample of recorded action for you to understand what is the length of my process. This action was recorded in haste and is not very accurate. 

[abolfazl29032603daba]

There might be an alternative such as Adobe Camera Raw batch processing

By @Stephen Marsh

what is Adobe Camera Raw batch processing? can i run any photoshop script or action using that feature? for example can i run photoshop script that i reply before using that feature?

[Stephen Marsh]

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@abolfazl29032603daba wrote:

There might be an alternative such as Adobe Camera Raw batch processing

By @Stephen Marsh

what is Adobe Camera Raw batch processing? can i run any photoshop script or action using that feature? for example can i run photoshop script that i reply before using that feature?

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Adobe Camera Raw is a totally different image processing engine, so no, it can't run Photoshop actions, it is an alternative way to edit images. Image edits are set as parametric processing instructions, which can be batch applied to multiple images in supported file formats (raw camera files or JPEG or TIFF or HEIC on Mac) and to also save out to say JPEG without opening the images into Photoshop. All work is performed in the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in.

[abolfazl29032603daba]

oh no i must save out to PNG format and maybe it not good for me