CS2 Action

Hi All,

Does anybody know please how to make an action in PS CS2?

All I would like to achieve with it is to convert a batch of TIFF's into smaller sized jpegs for agency submission.

Many thanks
Chris.

First you create a single conversion example as a new action;

Select the actions tab

create a new action by clicking on second icon from right on bottom, it looks like a square post it with 1 edge folded - name the action. As soon as you press return you are in the action recording mode.

(Its a long time since I did this, but I think you leave out the file open and save as operands in when recording the action as the batch process does this bit)

to end the action recording hit the square icon.

Then to batch convert your files

File
Automate
Batch
select your newly created action
select source and destination folders

you will probably want to tick supress file open and colour profile warnings if you are changing from (A)RGB to sRGB jpegs profiles

otherwise the rest of the menus are pretty straight forward

Mike

Hi Mike,

Many thanks for that - I will give that ago.

Chris.

Buy yourself BreezeBrowser and save yourself sooooo much hassle. It is like a photo software equivalent of a Swiss Army knife in that it does so many things. Batch resizing etc to any output format being just one of them

http://www.breezesys.com

Barrie :)

Or better still Chris Bibble Pro

Don't need record an action - PS has a batch processor already 'built-in'. Start PS up and then go to:

File->Scripts->Image processor.

You can then select a folder of images to process, and the file type/size/quality you want, and even another action to run - eg watermark. You can save the choices for use again later.

HTH

Many thanks for that Nick, that'll save me loads of time!

Chris