Photoshop Batch Question
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- tyranisus
How do you batch multiple images with different path names when said path is included in the action you are using for the batch? I've got hundreds of images to batch from different sources with image-specific path names and I need to use the path to remove the backround. But in the action, it says "Select Path ftc9860", so in any file without the path name "ftc9860" the action breaks - which is all the rest of them.
Hopefully someone out there has run into this same problem; it seems like it would be pretty common. Anyways, thanks in advance . . .
- PonyBoy0
write yourself a nice script:
- PonyBoy0
there's also a bunch of scripts out there that others have already made and are sharing...
... search google for 'photoshop javascript' to get started...
- ribit0
cant you do it by dropping multiple folders on an Action droplet, or combining Automator actions? (OSX?)
- tyranisus0
No, because there is ALWAYS a specific path name written into one or both of the actions.
Unless I'm just not seeing something - which is entirely possible
- ribit0
not sure if I'm getting your situation... but I think I've seen this when I try to record actions in Photoshop...but instead I do all my Actions in Image Ready (which is better for this), and save them as a droplets without any path in the save bit.
Actually in both Image Ready and PS, you should be able to double-click the action steps in the pallette to edit the options for each step of the Action (to delete the save step, or the path of the Save step etc)
Took me a while to find lots of hidden optons in there, like resize by EITHER width or height...very useful.
- PonyBoy0
ribit... image ready was discontinued in CS3 (I learned this the hard way the other day)...
... but, turns out that a lot of its functionality is built into PS now...
... thought I'd share that depressing change. :(