Recording and Action to Save in the...

I can make an action to save a file to a folder. But when I play that action, it wants to save it to that folder that i first recorded to.



Is there any way to create an action that would simply take a psd file and save as a jpg file, to the folder that the psd file is in.



So where ever that original file is, it will save a jpg file.



Hopefully you understand what I'm trying to do...



Gary Leif
Recording and Action to Save in the...
I think if you don't use the Save As but when you select Close and it asks if you want to save that that would be in the same folder. If you Save As and point to a folder, it will record that save in that folder
Recording and Action to Save in the...
Look at:-

Files - Scripts - Scripts Event Manager

Enable Events to run Scripts/Actions

Photoshop Event : Save Document

Script : Save Extra JPEG.jsx



You might have to amend the script as it only saves with a very low quality.

PicDude:



http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b73e94/25



Just record an action that saves an already open image as a JPG. If you need to convert to profile, resize, etc, you can do that too in the action. Then batch that action on your umbrella folder as source, with save and close as the destination and ''override action save...'' checked. See the above linked post if I wasn't clear.



J

J Maloney,



I don't quite understand what your saying. Can you send a screenshot of how this works, so I can try to do that?



gary @ leifphoto . com



Thanks,

Picture Dude, I consider Paul R is to be listened to Scripting-wise, but I think his recommendation in this case overshoots Your needs as it would save an additional jpg every time You save a document if I understand correctly.

But Scripts are the way to go in my opinion; You might try this:

#target photoshop



var thedoc = app.activeDocument;



var docName = thedoc.name;



var basename = docName.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1];



var docPath = thedoc.path;



var jpegOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();



jpegOptions.quality = 10;



jpegOptions.embedColorProfile = true;



thedoc.saveAs((new File(docPath+'/'+basename+'.jpg')),jpegOptions,true);

After copying that text into a new file in ExtendScript Toolkit, placing it in Presets 聽Scripts and restarting Photoshop one can assign it a Keyboard Shortcut or record it in an Action.

The action would look like this. It doesn't matter what directory you save the file when you record.
%26lt;br /%26gt;
%26lt;br /%26gt;
%26lt;a href=''http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1qCi6nppPz0VnW57se0O1Sk2ihnam1'' /%26gt;%26lt;/a%26gt;
%26lt;img alt=''Picture hosted by Pixentral'' src=''http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1qCi6nppPz0VnW57se0O1Sk2ihnam1_thumb.gif'' border=''0'' /%26gt;
%26lt;br /%26gt;
%26lt;br /%26gt;[ed] Actually, Gary, if you are working with layers, your action might look like this:
%26lt;br /%26gt;
%26lt;br /%26gt;
%26lt;a href=''http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1EISdDHNe1nTNJ9eOSQGPOqs8sse'' /%26gt;%26lt;/a%26gt;
%26lt;img alt=''Picture hosted by Pixentral'' src=''http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1EISdDHNe1nTNJ9eOSQGPOqs8sse_thumb.gif'' border=''0'' /%26gt;
%26lt;br /%26gt;
%26lt;br /%26gt;And the batch would look like this.
%26lt;br /%26gt;
%26lt;br /%26gt;
%26lt;a href=''http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1n3MZbxborOSC4ZtWvD8oygXggFeN1'' /%26gt;%26lt;/a%26gt;
%26lt;img alt=''Picture hosted by Pixentral'' src=''http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1n3MZbxborOSC4ZtWvD8oygXggFeN1_thumb.gif'' border=''0'' /%26gt;
%26lt;br /%26gt;
%26lt;br /%26gt;And if you use automate create droplet, you can configure that the same as the batch and just drop folders on it at will...

Wow,



Those were both great!



I think I'll stick with the Scripts.



Where can you find out more about scripts that are written?



I don't think I could figure out how to write them, but I can certainly paste them into a script...



Thanks,



Gary

禄Adobe Intro To Scripting.pdf芦 and 禄Photoshop CS4 Scripting Guide.pdf芦 can be a good starting point.

Plus there are a couple extremely competent persons that frequent the Photoshop Scripting Forum (other programs Scripting fora too of course).



One of the beauties of Scripts for saving copies is that You can quite easily write additional suffixes for the resulting files into Your Scripts to signify low resolution-copies, separation-profiles etc.

And even if You prefer Actions certain things that generally elude those can be recorded via small Scripts.