Need the help of all Photoshop/Photo Editing guru's....

[aphex]

Ok im looking for a way to either set up a macro in photoshop or use a seperate program to do the following...

This is what i need to do:

1) Resize and compress 1,300 photos (from full 4mp size down to 800x600)
2) Maintain originals and save new .jpgs to a new directory
3) Maintain directory structure in that new directory

Any idea how i can accomplish this?

 

[FredFredrickson]

Use actions to record you doing the first one and saving it as a jpeg to a different folder, then go to the file menu and do a batch, using that newly created action... Its a little confusing at first, but easy to do things really quicjly with once you get the hang of it!

 

[Transition]

What version of PS are you using?

 

[Transition]

If you have PS 6 and above i believe, this is how you can do it..

• Setup your action to rescale the images to 800x600

• File > Automate > Batch

• Configure the Batch to run with the action you created, and specify in Batch how you want the new files to be named, and in what directory they will be placed.

PM or AIM me with questions.

alter deus

 

[Evadman]

no idea how to do that in PS since I suck at it. But ThumbsPlus from Cerious.com (even the trial version) can do that. It is under the "process" option. Or you can just higlight the files you want to change to jpg's, right click, and select "quick process". It ill make copies and make those copies into JPG's (or one of 20 other formats, with differing options for them all)

ThumbsPlus rules!

 

[Transition]

Well Fred's not entirely correct on this one. DON'T include the file save in the action! Otherwise you'll have processed 1,400 images, and they'll all have been overwriting the same image over and over.. After you complete the action, just press the "Stop" key on the action pallette. The batch process will automatically close images for you.