Photoshop Batch Action Save for Web and Devices

Question

Hello everybody,

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?

Answer 1

Hi there.

I had the same problem, and my "workaround" was to toggle dialog screen ON on "save for web" part of action, and to manually press "save" and enter the name of file I wanted.

It's not completely automatic, but action works of 95% of the job. You just have to be there to click "save" and enter file names.

To toggle dialog screen on, click on the empty box, left to the name of the action.

I hope they will correct that somewhere before CS 11 :)

Cheers!

GM.

Answer 2

Hi there.

I had the same problem, however found that in my action when I chose to Save for Web by using the shortcut command (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S) that it did not work, but if I used the file menu then it did. If that doesn't work have a play around with your action.

Charlotte

Answer 3

you'd think that by now adobe would have included the ability to easily batch this. the save for web reduces file size by over 50% in most instances, WTF adobe?