Photoshop Automation 99 Responses

Last post: 3 years, 2 months ago | Thread started: Nov 18, 08, 3:44 p.m.

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• Gilt001

  Anyone use it much? Any good places for tutorials or other resources?

  I'm doing some digging but most of it seems to be for digital photographers batch renaming files, but I know there's more to it than that.

  I just found out you can use the Mac OS Automator to run Photoshop as well.

  Nov 18, 08, 3:44 p.m. – Permalink

• ThePublics

  I use corel draw, shit is real son.

  • Lens for the win, son.– ninjasavant

  

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  Dog-earNov 18, 08, 3:44 p.m. – Permalink

• jedipunk

  I use actions quite a bit, good times.

  There is an Automator photoshop pack out there but read the fine print before you install the workflows into automator... it can kill photoshop forcing you to reinstall...

  I will be sticking to running all my actions from within photoshop/bridge/droplets

  I learned to use the actions panel by trial and error... thankfully not to many errors

  

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  Dog-earNov 18, 08, 4:04 p.m. – Permalink

• ninjasavant

  I love it, use it constantly. Bridge has some good batch functions too.

  

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  Dog-earNov 18, 08, 4:12 p.m. – Permalink

• Gilt001

  Thanks for the tip jedipunk. I was just getting ready to download that Automator action pack. I'll go your route instead. Sounds safer.

  

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  Dog-earNov 18, 08, 4:12 p.m. – Permalink

• Gilt001

  Actually, maybe I'll ask. Is there any way to include variables in the Actions? Like have it ask me where I want to save a file or name a layer?

  • maybe you will ask– doesnotexist

  

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  Dog-earNov 18, 08, 4:14 p.m. – Permalink

• fugged

  You know you can script Photoshop with JavaScript, right?

  I've scripted PS for many things, but mostly for asset generation (like buttons, icons, etc.) Just wrote a script a few months ago for button generation. Sucks in a text file, creates a button sized to the label, spits out CSS sprites and a CSS file. Way cool stuff. Saved lots of freakin' time.

  • Interesting, i'll have to research that a bit.– Gilt001

  

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  Dog-earNov 18, 08, 4:56 p.m. – Permalink

• simple_space

  I wrote a Javascript script for Photoshop to build some digital streak images. Just search the net for various scripts (resizing, file management, etc) and hack them together to do what you want. It isn't too difficult and can really save your ass from repetitive stuff that can't normally be handled by actions.

  

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  Dog-earNov 21, 08, 12:47 p.m. – Permalink

• simple_space

  and yes, you can use variables, loops (i=1; i<n; i++) and conditional statements.

  

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  Dog-earNov 21, 08, 12:48 p.m. – Permalink

• BattleAxe

  i set one up to resize - add waterdrop - flatten and save as jpg

  it was easy to learn just hit new action - name it - assign a short cut if need be- then hit record - now do what you want to have repeated - hit stop //

  wala

  

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  Dog-earNov 21, 08, 3:02 p.m. – Permalink