[juusan]

I'd like to run a batch job on a directory of photos that will resize the images down to 550px wide and then save them to a lower quality, ideally for the web. I'm running into two problems creating the action:

1 - the 'save for web' command wants to stick the saved files anywhere but the original directory. I just want to edit the original file and save it in the original directory, but it doesn't seem like that's possible.

2 - even using the save or save as commands creates an issue, since it keeps popping up a dialogue box asking me what quality I want to save the image as, waiting for my ok. I'm running this on a directory with several sub-directories, housing all together about 4,000 images, so hitting OK for every image isn't really an option.


any help would be greatly appreciated.

[chris v]

Can you continue writing the action on through the "save as..." dialog? I would ge ahead and save to a new directory because the OS is going to halt and wait for an OK before it lets you overwrite the original file, and Photoshop will have no control over that.

[Goldfinger]

You can record your action and use "Override Save As" in the Batch proces window. I have an action like that: It does Auto levels --> Auto Contrast --> Sharpen more --> Image size 700px width --> Convert to 8bit --> Save as JPG quality 5 --> Close.

In the batch proces window you can set file name settings etc. But it never asks for quality settings etc if you use the Override Save As option. It saves the files according to the settings recorded by the action.

I hope this made some sense. I'm tired.

[juusan]

Originally posted by Goldfinger:
You can record your action and use "Override Save As" in the Batch proces window. I have an action like that: It does Auto levels --> Auto Contrast --> Sharpen more --> Image size 700px width --> Convert to 8bit --> Save as JPG quality 5 --> Close.

In the batch proces window you can set file name settings etc. But it never asks for quality settings etc if you use the Override Save As option. It saves the files according to the settings recorded by the action.

I hope this made some sense. I'm tired.

I've tried using that and it still stops at every file to ask for quality, even though my action runs all the way through save as -> quality 6.

[Goldfinger]

You have to include the "close" in your action. And did you check the Override Save As checkbox in the batch window ?

[juusan]

Originally posted by Goldfinger:
You have to include the "close" in your action. And did you check the Override Save As checkbox in the batch window ?

yes and yes... both have been tried and failed.