Photoshop Elements :: Using Actions In Batch Editing?
Oct 6, 2013Is there any way to use Actions in Batch Editing in Photoshop Elements 10 or any Elements?
View 1 RepliesIs there any way to use Actions in Batch Editing in Photoshop Elements 10 or any Elements?
View 1 RepliesThe IPTC keywords contain tags in many of my photos that have long since been deleted or changed. Is there any way to batch edit this field?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been looking for this one a long time, but I just don't get it to work properly. The problem is this, I need to save a whole lot of pictures into jpeg in my PS file. But the time it takes me for selecting every one of them and pushing ctrl shift s, then inputting the number and save as jpeg. Is driving me horribly insane.
So I looked up some things on google, but that didn't help, thus I landed here. I know you could do this with the automate - batch command but I simply don't get it to work. Using the action command doesn't help either, it saves the picture but always overwrites the former one (since it always saves with the same name)...
Whenever I try to run an action or use batch I get an error message that Photoshop CS 5 will now close. What if anything can I do? I am running XP. There are actions in the plugins/actions folder. The actions tab contains my actions and the original ones.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI can record a batch action but when I try to apply it to opened files or folders, the batch window doesn't even appear and all the photoshop menu options are frozen and greyed out. I have to force quit the program to recover. This started happening last week and there was no updates or any other changes made to the computer or software. I have tried to delete the preference files and repair permissions and restart the computer, but nothing works. It happens every single time.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to do a batch action, the only action set offered is ONE "default set". Which has vignettes, molten lead, gradients, etc. I need to batch process a a folder of .pict images to .jpg
It's been a long time since I used the batch feature, but I have done this process in the past (maybe years ago).
What has happened to my action sets or how i might restore them? I poked around in Time machine, but don't know enough about where to look.
Photoshop CS3 Extended 10.0.1
I made an action that opens, resizes, saves and closes files. I loaded it into "file>automate>batch" and designated both source and destination folders(which are different). For some reason the batch processed files are not saving to the designated destination folder specified in the batch gui.
How can i correct this?
I posted this in the Mac forum but received no responses after a couple of days, so I am trying it here. Photoshop CS3 Actions seem to have a bug such that when used in Automate > Batch mode it will use the name of the first file opened in the batch session for every file processed in that session. Since that name is used in Save step, this means having to deal with the "File Already Exist" dialog for every file in the batch because it is attempting to save at the designated location with the same file name. If the continue option is chosen each time, the final result is one file with the first opened file name, but with the contents of the last processed file. To confirm that this is a problem particular to the opening step, I have disabled all processing steps as well as the saving step by toggling them in the Actions panel. I then ran the action in batch mode on a folder containing 4 files. This resulted in 4 opened files all with the same name but different image content. This was with the "Override 'Open' Action Commands" checked/not checked, and the "Suppress File Open Options Dialogs" checked/not checked. The problem described also occurs when using a Droplet. By comparison, Photoshop CS exhibits the expected behavior: when an action is used in batch mode to process an entire folder of files, the name of each file is retained after opening and used after processing in the save or export step. The above described behavior of CS3 is a change acquired along the way to the CS3 version (I do not have the CS2 version to test). But more importantly, can someone please report if the CS4 version behaves as I described for CS3, or if it has been returned to the CS behavior? OS X 10.4.11G4 800 MHz 2 MB L3/processor 1.25 GB SDRAM Is this a known bug?
View 21 Replies View RelatedI tried to run an Automate batch action (to resize my photos) but it will asked me in the "Jpeg Option" folder for each file, which mean I am not able to go away and let Photoshop carry out the action by itself. It get annoyoed because I have to sit in front of my PC and press enter to each file resized.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI Can't run batch actions. I'm trying to run batch actions from the file browser in CS and it say it can't because the "Disk is not available". I made sure my scratch disc was designated, and it has my primary partition as the 1st and the other partion is the 2nd. The files I'm working from are on the same partition as the System files and there is 15gb available.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am converting tiff files to jpeg using the Automate then Batch Actions. I select my source folder and Destination folder. The program converts and send the jpegs to the Destination folder but it is also sending a copy of every jpeg to my DESKTOP. Nothing in my Destination folder shows the desktop as a destination. I set up a destination file on my e drive and it still sends the photos to the desktop.
I am using CS2 Photoshop.
I have a number of actions under the automate/batch menu item that are on a win2k machine with 7.0. I want to migrate them to an xp machine with cs3. I can't boot the machine with 7.0 on it but I do have complete access to the disk (long story of another problem).
I cannot figure out where they store them. I've seen the .atn file but they just seem to be standard default files. So what I want to do is to get them into cs3 without having to redo the dozens of actions by hand. It's sounds easy (and I'm sure it is), but in my searching, I'm coming up with nothing. Ideas?
Up until a month or so ago, using photoshop CS5 - windows, a batch psd conversion of nummerous files say fred1. psd through fred10.psd gave me fred1 jpeg through fred10.jpeg. I saveconversions to a dump jpeg folder on another drive where there are also, dump psd and dump tiff with tiff not being much used.
Using actions, the first conversion of a series will be fred.jpeg but thereafter it will be fred1 copy.jpeg through fred10 copy .jpeg. No big deal for a few files as the word copy can be deleted. However, if a jpeg file say fred.jpeg needs to be updated in say a slide show or web site then the new conversion of the updated file as fred copy.jpeg causes identity problems.
how can I return to the situation where fred.psd becomes fred.jpeg and not fred copy.jpeg. This does not seem to happen for individual conversions the manual way. I tried to convert to jpeg 2000 but the same happened. I'm not sure about jpeg 2000 and how it would work if taking to a phot processor for "photographic" prints.
I've got to submit about 130 images in JPG form to the media department by 1 o'clock today EST.
Basically, this is my setup up in PS CS5. I have a simple graphic (a black decorative border) in its own layer. Below this, I have a mask so that the images below it can peek through the decorative border. The sample below only has 1 image, but in my actual document there are about 130 layers under this mask, each with a different image.
I have to export every single image as a JPG. Not all the images are the same size so I have to turn off all layers, and leave only the layer being exported visible every time.
Is there anyway I can batch this? I don't see how can PS turn on/off layers automatically as it exports.Or how could I have done this differently for future reference?
Is there a way I can perform an action to similar images?
For example, lets say I have one big circle, and another circle that's smaller. Is there a way I can resize the two circles so they scale together?
Goes the same with colors. Is there a way I can apply the same color effect to multiple layer images at once? Or do I have to go manually one by one if I want to change something?
I'm trying to resize and save a bunch of .bmp pictures.
I tried tinkering with some options, but couldn't get it to work any faster than doing each one individually. I think I'm going about it all wrong...
Is there an easy to way to import all the pictures at once, change the Image Size and then save as a JPEG in a new folder?
I'm using Photoshop CS2.
We run Actions on a group of images using CS4 with the File->Automate->Batch function. We use this to take, for example, 200 images from a set folder, run an action to change them into a different colour and save in a different folder, we need to do this 20 times on the same images running a different script each time to change them into a different colour and save them in the same folder (with different file extensions)
Is there a way we can instruct Photoshop to run all of these 20 scripts (one after the other in a queue as it where) without having to "Babysit" it and ask it to run each one off ourselves?
how do i edit a series of pictures in which i want the same affect applied to each picture in the series? the answer that was given was: apply all the affects you want to your picture and record that as a batch action and use that action to apply to the remaining series.
View 1 Replies View RelatedTarget a folder with xxx .gif patterns (in the same size)- Setup actions to batch open each image from the folder, copy the pattern image individually over to a .PSD file that have a silhouette of the sleeve.- Apply the individual pattern to the clipping mask- Save it out as .png
Issue:So far ive only had the automate > batch process to save out one .png with the pattern correctly applied to the silhouette.
I close down everything and initiate automate > batch process then Photoshop will complain about not being able to locate the clipping mask.In my action setup I first open my .psd containing my sleeve shape, then open an actual pattern image and then all other steps ending up with saving the .psd with pattern clipping mask to .png. URL....
In this one below, ive closed everything and run the automate > batch process, which gives me the error you can see here: URL....
Im trying to perform an action on a Batch. After i select the folder i want to use it on and hit save. The images start opening but when it opens the image layers are all locked and it wont perform the action....
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I use the batch command in Photoshop CS5 the results are the same as if I did the touch up manually. This is not true in CS6. What can I do to rectify this problem.
View 41 Replies View RelatedI have over 400 AI files to process and I need to change the artboard size to the following specifications exactly on all files:
X: 108 px
Y: -108 px
W: 216 px
H: 216 px
Any script for this? I did some digging and came up empty.
Photoshop cs6 64 windows 7 64. I'd like to do a highly repetitive action to a single open file. In this case:
file save as currentname_print.psd
then commit action save as currentname.png
then commit another action and save as currentname_small.png
at the moment batch seems to be great for running the same action for many files, but if I want to run a repetitive action such as this I can't seem to figure it out. but I cant seem to get it working, and searches only seem to turn up questions about doing the same action to multiple files.
ps: it seems strange that within the action menu I cant create sets that have variables aka current file name+afix, if the actions feature had this I'd be golden.
ps+ also seems that this could be handled by bridge quite efficiently.
just wondering if there is a way to do some simple edits such as auto colour adjusments etc on a large batch of photos rather than having to do them one by one?? can then add the more specific edits ontop.
can anyone point me to a tutorial that would give me a step by step run through - or give me a few nudges in the right direction!
I am using window 7, 64bit with 8 gigs of ram. What is not understood in same results using the batch command, and manually re touching in CS5, but not the same when done in CS6. The results are different in CS6.
View 16 Replies View RelatedI have an excel list of about 2000 names. I need to add each name text to a image I created and then have it saved as a separate file. Is there any kind of automation/shortcut to do something like this, rather then manaully typing each name?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have 30 dirs, each of them with 4 thumbs in it. I want to make one big thumb of every 4 smaller ones, by resizing and fitting them together into square. Like
Thumb1 right next to Thumb2
below
Thumb3 right next to Thumb4
and then save that image.
Would you give me any direction how to do that? I'm with CS3. I did explore the auto and script options in the File menu, but still unable to get idea how to do that, if possible at all
I have a drawing with at least 100 pipes in it. Unfortunately there was an error in the spelling of the pipe material in the network parts list and all of these existing pipes have to be edited. The only way that I can find to access the material property is to open the property dialog for each pipe and fix it one at a time.
Any other solution that would allow us to batch edit a series of pipe material properties?
I have 17 actions each containing multiple saves in different sub-folders ( I basically have to save files in 102 different folders) and that has to be repeated in 40 different folders.
Since I do not see myself opening each one in Photoshop to edit the "save to" path 4000+ times, is there a way I could edit that path outside Photoshop? I tried a Hex Editor but I could not figure how to change the path since I could not find it in the script..
I have a around 500 cdr(corel draw ) files, and each pages have around 20 images in it.
so what i do. select every single image on the pages then using convert bitmap option to save them on my computer. That consume my whole time in saving them to my computer.
Is there any fast option available to select all images at once and convert to bitmap 20 images and save in a number say 1,2 ...20
All the loaded actions worked yesterday....none will play today. I can bring up yesterday's work and continue to work on the action run, however, when I closed that out and went to another project, I was unable to run any action loaded. I deleted the actions and re-entered turning off the computer after each action loaded. Still would not work. I finally uninstalled 11 and then re-installed it. Still no luck. Are ACTIONS suppose to be a preset folder? I don't have a preset Actions folder in my program files...not even after I re-installed.
Photoshop Elements 11