Photoshop - Actions & Batch Processing

This video will discuss briefly how you would produce your own action scripts which you can apply to an image or series of images. Creating Actions is quite a vast area so please treat this as a starting point on how to produce Actions.

Okay, so what the heck are "Actions"??? They are a series of commands that you perform on an image that you may wish to repeat in quick sucession. An example of this is if you wanted to watermark and copyright a large amount of images automatically. Normally you would have to do a series of steps in each image. With Actions you dont! What you do is "Record" your actions required once, then you have the commands stored so you can use them over and over again.

So with this video sit back and watch how you would create actions and how you would apply them to multiple images.

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[anthonyflannery222]

Well sir, you just saved me so much time. Thank you...your video is still helping people. This worked like a charm to resize 75 images.

[PCTeachME]

@anthonyflannery222 Thanks! Glad this worked and thank you for telling everyone else your success!

[FunniestDream]

awesome you just saved me like 8 hours of work

[PCTeachME]

@FunniestDream Glad I could help

[gramps86]

Very helpful mate, cheers

[PCTeachME]

@gramps86 Glad it could help! let me know if there is anything you need!

[larmannjan]

I created an action to open raw then save as jpeg. But when i batch process i still have ton confirm the settings in acr

[rpowellhome]

Use place file rather than opening while recording and will as long as you have set the base file for the same dimensions always appear in same place. Have one for portrait and one for landscape

[fredb3]

@PCTeachME

Wouldn't the common denominator be resizing and setting a batch for landscape and one for portrait?

[PCTeachME]

@mpearon Hi, I am afraid my knowledge of actionscript stems from the recording of actions and have not come across anyway of indentifying size of image to determine size of watemark to apply. Thats why on the video I suggested that you would create perhaps the same actionscript multiple times for different resolution of image. I.e. have a 800x600 script and a 1024 x 768 script, then bundle all your images of a certain size together and perform batches that way.