Understanding the app.batch method is CS2 JS scripting

[GwennUK]

Hi,

I'm a press officer in a fairly busy press office and I'm trying to automate my image-processing workflow for the images we put on our website...So far I've been using photoshop's (CS2) batch command to do this but it's not as performant as I would like it to be.

For each of the pictures I have I need to produce

- 'large'(1024px wide),

- 'frontpage'(240px wide),

- 'rollup'(85px wide) versions.

I put all my original pictures in a source folder and the processed ones go to a destination folder. The only problem I've got is that I need to run the batch command three times for each format, plus photoshop asks me for JPEG options for each picture, so I can't really press a button and get away from my work station..

So I've looked into scripting in javascript and have managed to automate some of my sipmle tasks but what I need to do here (producing images in three different formats with a specific file naming conventions) is obviously complicated.

Now, reading the CS2 javascrip reference guide, I found that the app.batch method and all the options that go along with it (destinationFolder, fileNaming especially) might be what I'm looking for. The only problem is that i can't seem to find any examples (I've spent the last week searching) to help me using that method...

Can anyone share an example of how you use this method so I can get my head around it?

Thanks in advance!

G

[Paul Riggott]

You might be able to do everything without scripting, have a look at Image Processor Pro here...

http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html

[xbytor2]

Finding a version that works with CS2 might be a problem.

xbatch may work. I haven't run it on CS2 in years.

http://ps-scripts.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ps-scripts/xtools/apps/xbatch.jsx

[Paul Riggott]

Ooops, my eye-sight is failing along with the de-grading grey cell X

[Zetta]

if ImageProcessor Pro, or xbatch don't work for you,  I used to write lots of scripts for CS2, I could revive a couple from the dead that do naming, saving, and looping like you're looking for. 

You can find me http://adobescripting.com