Making a SAVE AS action for making a stop motion animation

Question

So I am making a stop motion animation using Photoshop. Earlier when I had to edit a lot of photos I've used an action to speed up my process of saving multiple images, but that is when you work with multiple photos. Now I am working with a single file, and I want to make some adjustments and speed up my process of constantly clicking save as ect since I am working with a lot of sequences. I thought when I click the SAVE AS A COPY it will make a new file when I save it, but it just overwrites the previous one. Does anyone know how to overcome this? Thanks

Stephen Marsh · Answer

So, are you looking for a "sequential save"?

First save using standard save/format:

myFile.psd

Then, subsequent sequential saves using a script to the same folder or a sub-folder etc:

myFile-1.jpg

myFile-2.jpg

myFile-3.jpg

etc?

The myFile.psd or other "parent" doc would stay open onscreen in whatever layer visibility state it is at. Then each sequential save would be a "snapshot" of the current visibility when saving.

Similar in a way to using Layer Comps and the Layer Comps to files script.

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