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Trying to run an action on loop

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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.

Kukurykus

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

PECourtejoie

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это сделано

Kukurykus

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Polish would be more appropriate 😛

kirank51547421

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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

RunActionX-Times_.txt

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r-binCorrect answer

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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

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Thank you!

This solves my problem!

Stephen Marsh

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Thank you very much for the guide. I saved the .txt file w/ the above code as "Action Loop.jsx" per the instructions, put it in the PS Scripts folder, but when I try to run it from the Scripts menu in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 it gives me these 2 errors:

1) The command “Play” is not currently available.

2) Error 8007: User cancelled the operation

Line: 1

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I then tried adding the name of the action (located in the Actions window) in place of Action 2, but it gave me the same error. Am I supposed to specify the action name in the script or does it prompt you to select one after running it? And what do I put for "Set 2"?

Thanks

Here is an example image and code:

for (var i = 0; i < 250; i++) app.doAction("Molten Lead","Default Actions");

The "set" is the "folder" or "Default Actions" in the example above.

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