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Radu2018
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October 24, 2018
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Droplet for creating a Contact Sheet

  • October 24, 2018
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Hi all,

I'm trying to create a droplet so that when I drop a folder full of images on it, it will create a contact sheet of a specific size.

So I've made an action for the contact sheet, but when I drop the folder on the droplet, it applies that action to every single image, not to the whole folder.

Plus I can't get the action to "read" the current folder path, it keeps saving to the folder I used when I recorded the action.

Any ideas will be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    October 25, 2018

    Contact sheet II is a Photoshop Plug-in script and will record the setting you use recording the Automate Contact sheet II step into the Action step. The Action you used to create a droplet from would have the folders and files you set into the contact II script dialog recording the action recorded in the actions step.  These would be passed to Contact Sheets II  to create Contac sheets for.  I do not know if a Droplet can change what is recorded in its embedded action that is in the droplet executable module.  Are you dropping Files or Folders on to your Droplet?  Are any contact sheets being created for anything you drop on your droplet.

    I would think most droplets would be a like Batch process where files are processed one at a time.  If you turn Action's Contact sheet II  steps's dialing on the step in the action uset to create the droplet the action  the step will be be interactive and requires user intervention.   A droplet would not know how to use plug-in dialog.  Dialoges vary all over the place. The droplet would need to act like  a user keyboard entering data into a dialog and know how to run the dialog once dialoh input  is complete.

    I think you may not be able to use contact sheet II in a droplet.

    JJMack
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    Radu2018Author
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    October 25, 2018

    I'm dropping folders onto the droplet and a contact sheet is created, but it is completely wrong in it's saved in the wrong folder. When recording the action, if I chose to browse for files or folders it remembers those paths and whatever folder I drag onto the droplet, it will work with the images from the initial folder, but the contact sheet will be created n times, where n = number of files from the folder I'm dropping in. So I recorded an action using opened documents instead of browsing for them. The good news is the droplet is using whatever images I'm dropping onto it, but since it takes one image at a time, the result is a contact sheet with a single image being created and overwritten n times and at the end I'll end up with a contact sheet with the last image from the folder. And of course it's saved in the initial folder.

    I think this one doesn't have a solution and probably have to think of another route.

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 25, 2018

    Expand the action you created the droplet with so you can read each Photoshop step recorded and the setting recorded for the steps operation.  Does the contact sheet II step have File paths or folder path recorded in the step.  I do not think a droplet will change steps in its recorded action.

    JJMack
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