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Photoshop Batch Action Save for Web and Devices

Asked 2009-12-10T10:59:02.277
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I created an Action in Photoshop CS4. It's something like this:

  1. Open Document
  2. Change Canvas Size
  3. Save for Web & Devices
  4. Close Document

Now, the "Save for Web & Devices" does all nice stuff, including saving it with a specific name to a specific folder. Somehow, when I try to Batch this Action, I'm not able to tell Photoshop NOT to use the name (and probably location) as defined in the "Save for Web & Devices". As a result, Photoshop keeps on overwriting the output previous files in the batch, leaving me with only the transformed rendition of the last file in the batch.

I tried to select the 'override Save As' checkbox in the batch, but that doesn't seem to influence the behavior of the Save for Web & Devices part of the Action.

Can anyone help me?

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Sjakelien, I understand your dilemma. Your outputted batch files are all overwriting to the first filename you specified when making the action. So instead of ending up with 35 files you are ending up with 1 file which has been overwritten 35 times. Useless.

I tried this with an image file called 'T.LR5001.DI.3.jpg' and I had this problem.

I then tried it with the next image file called 'T.LR5002.jpg' with a new action and it worked fine. You can see in the path (when you maximise the export process within the main action) that the 'In:' destination does not include the end file name, rather a path to the folder ending with a back slash. This is what you want to achieve and I think it has something to do with the file name structure. Perhaps the full stop (period) is involved.

So try setting up the action with a different initial image file. Hope this helps :)

answered 2012-12-20T10:17:25.413

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