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Technique 9: Automating Photoshop Functions
Save Time By
Letting Photoshop rename a folder of files
Automating actions
Using droplets
This technique focuses on ways that you can modify batches of files while letting Photoshop do (most of) the work for you. The big time sink for you is setting up the automation. After you have the automation in place, though, Photoshop can do the work in a matter of seconds.So, what can you automate? Using the tools included in Photoshop, you can
Rename batches of files, saving the renamed files in the same folder as the original files or a new folder.
Modify any number of images using actions that you record, and then save the modified image files in the original folder or a new folder.
Create mini-programs called droplets that bring recorded actions to the Windows or Mac desktop. From there, you drop selected files or a folder of files on the droplet in order to play the action.
None of these features is very difficult to use. Working your way through the various dialog boxes may take some figuring out the first time, but when you’re familiar with the way each of these features works, setting up automated processes in the future is really a snap.
Three Serial Number options that add a one, two, or three digit serial number to the filename.
Two Serial Letter options that add either an upper- or lowercase letter to the filename.
Seven date options that let you add the month/day/year in various permutations to the filename.
To use the Batch Rename command, you have to use the File Browser. If you aren’t familiar with the File Browser, take a look at Technique 1 for a quick refresher.Here’s how to automate renaming files:
Open the File Browser by clicking the Toggle File Browser button on the Options bar or choosing File>Browse.
Using the Folders palette, move to the folder containing the files you want to rename.When you select the folder, the image files display as thumbnails in the Preview pane.
Select the image files you want to rename.You can select individual files by clicking them in the Preview pane or select an entire folder of image files by selecting the folder in the Folders palette.
Choose Automate>Batch Rename.The Batch Rename dialog box, shown in Figure 9-1, opens.
Figure 9-1: You can select where the renamed files are stored with the Batch Rename dialog box.
For those of you who are interested in programming, Photoshop can be customized using short programs or scripts written in AppleScript, JavaScript, or Visual Basic. In Photoshop 7, scripting was included as an optional plug-in that needed to be installed. With Photoshop cs , scripting is integrated into the program, so any system running Photoshop cs supports scripting by default. If you decide to write scripts for the Mac exclusively, you need to use AppleScript and a script editor. Both of these come with Mac OS X and can be found in the Applications folder. To find out more about AppleScript, check out www.apple.com/applescript .Windows users interested in writing scripts exclusively for Windows machines can use Visual Basic or the Windows Scripting Host. To download Windows Scripting Host, go to www.msdn.microsoft.com/scripting .Photoshop users who decide to create scripts for both the Windows and Mac platforms can use JavaScript. In fact, Photoshop includes a built-in cross-platform framework for playing JavaScripts.Four scripts are installed by default in Photoshop; access them by choosing File>Scripts. Photoshop also ships with scripting manuals and many sample scripts written in the three scripting languages. You can find these manuals and scripts in the Scripting Guide folder of your Photoshop cs installation.
