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williaml66073414
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March 9, 2020
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Trying to run an action on loop

  • March 9, 2020
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Hi there, I have a large amount of images (~7000) and I'd like to stitch 4 of them together in a quadrant and save it as a file.

Currently I import about 250 into separate layers and I made an action that aligns them to each corner to complete the quadrant, but I have to continually click the Play button to process all the images.

Is there a way to repeat the action in some kind of loop? I can't use automate>batch because all the files are in the layers and are deleted as they are stitched.

I've tried to use a script to play another action which has a script that plays the initial action but then I get an error when it starts the 2nd Action.

"Could not complete the command because Photoshop was unable to find the Javascript file"

These are the 2 separate scripts:

app.doAction("Action2","Set2.ATN")

app.doAction("Action","Set.ATN")

Please let me know if there's an easier way that I'm not seeing

Thanks for your time!

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Correct answer r-bin
Unclear explain. Do you need to run a certain Action 250 times?

Create such a script and run it.
for (var i = 0; i < 250; i++) app.doAction("Action 2","Set 2");

Type the name of the Action and Set Name very carefully.
Just like in the action panel, without any ".ATN", taking into account spaces and case.
 

3 replies

Kukurykus
Kukurykus
Braniac
November 17, 2021

Moderator please assaign 'Actions and scripting' label to this thread.

    PECourtejoie
    PECourtejoie
    Braniac
    November 17, 2021
    это сделано
    Kukurykus
    Kukurykus
    Braniac
    November 17, 2021

    Polish would be more appropriate 😛

    kirank51547421
    kirank51547421
    New Participant
    November 17, 2021

    Here is a script, put this in a file RunActionX-Times.jsx(change the extension from .txt to .jsx) and copy to your Adobe Photoshop>Presets>Scripts folder on windows.

    In Photoshop, your new script should appear under File>scripts. Just type in the number of times you want an action to run and VIOLA! Works like a charm!

     

    Credit to jcombs

    Link to original discussion

    https://www.ozzu.com/questions/455621/photoshop-play-an-action-repeatedly#post-607170

     

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      r-binCorrect answer
      Braniac
      March 9, 2020
      Unclear explain. Do you need to run a certain Action 250 times?

      Create such a script and run it.
      for (var i = 0; i < 250; i++) app.doAction("Action 2","Set 2");

      Type the name of the Action and Set Name very carefully.
      Just like in the action panel, without any ".ATN", taking into account spaces and case.
       
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        williaml66073414Author
        New Participant
        March 9, 2020

        Thank you!

        This solves my problem! 

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        shape55
        Known Participant
        November 13, 2020

        Were you able to create a script to do this?  If so, can you please share it as I have no experience in how to create them.  I used to use this Iterate Actions extension to run loops: https://vimeo.com/8588910 but it no longer works in newer versions of PS.

         

        Thanks

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