Automating Photoshop Actions

Hi:-)
I need a script which takes a folder of images and gets them ready for a website by
1) opening each image and saving it for the web
2) checking if any of its dimensions are above 500 - if not moving on to the next image and, if so,
3) proportionally reducing that dimension to 500.
Is this something I can do with Photoshop Actions alone? If not, can I use Applescript to accomplish this?
Thanks a lot !

Hi Mark thanks a lot.
I tried option 2 today. Initially it was returning the filename without the extension (baseName) as a string with a space between each character (as in "f i l e n a m e")so I was getting the error message
"Adobe Photoshop CS got an error: Folder some object wasn't found."
I then slightly rejigged the on getBaseName(fName) handler to the following:
on getBaseName(fName) -- File name without extension
set x to "."
set y to offset of x in fName
set z to y - 1
set baseName to ""
repeat with i from 1 to z
set baseName to baseName & character i of fName as string
end repeat
return baseName
end getBaseName
Now I get correct filename without the extension bu now I am getting the following error message which I don't understand:
"Adobe Photoshop CS got an error: General Photoshop error occurred. The parameters for command “Save” are not currently valid."
I ran the Event log while running the script and pasted below is what it recorded:
tell current application
choose folder with prompt "Please choose the folder containing Images" without invisibles
alias "Macintosh HD:Users:bisd:Desktop:photos2.fpbf:"
end tell
tell application "Finder"
get every file of alias "Macintosh HD:Users:bisd:Desktop:photos2.fpbf:"
{document file "pismall.gif" of folder "photos2.fpbf" of folder "Desktop" of folder "bisd" of folder "Users" of startup disk, document file "ppf_large.gif" of folder "photos2.fpbf" of folder "Desktop" of folder "bisd" of folder "Users" of startup disk, document file "ppf_small.gif" of folder "photos2.fpbf" of folder "Desktop" of folder "bisd" of folder "Users" of startup disk, document file "ppfa copy.gif" of folder "photos2.fpbf" of folder "Desktop" of folder "bisd" of folder "Users" of startup disk, document file "ppfa.gif" of folder "photos2.fpbf" of folder "Desktop" of folder "bisd" of folder "Users" of startup disk, document file "ppfa_large.gif" of folder "photos2.fpbf" of folder "Desktop" of folder "bisd" of folder "Users" of startup disk}
end tell
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS"
get properties of settings
{color picker:Adobe color picker, interpolation method:missing value, export clipboard:true, show tool tips:true, keyboard zoom resizes windows:true, auto update open documents:false, show Asian text options:false, beep when done:false, dynamic color sliders:true, save palette locations:true, show English font names:true, use Shift key for tool switch:true, number of history states:20, create first snapshot:true, nonlinear history:false, smart quotes:true, image previews:yes, icon preview:true, full size preview:false, Mac OS thumbnail:true, Windows thumbnail:true, append extension:yes, use lowercase extension:true, ask before saving layered TIFF:true, maximize compatibility:ask, recent file list length:10, display color channels in color:false, use diffusion dither:false, pixel doubling:false, painting cursors:brush size, other cursors:standard, grid size:medium, use video alpha:false, gamut warning opacity:100.0, ruler units:pixel units, type units:mm units, column width:180.0, column gutter:11.990478515625, point size:postscript size, guide style:solid line, grid style:solid line, grid subdivisions:4, show slice numbers:true, use additional plugin folder:false, additional plugin folder:missing value, cache levels:4, use cache for histograms:false, maximum RAM use:50, use history log:false, save log items:metadata, edit log items:sessiononly, save log items file:missing value, best type:reference, default type:reference, class:settings-object}
set ruler units of settings to pixel units
end tell
tell application "Finder"
get document file "pismall.gif" of folder "photos2.fpbf" of folder "Desktop" of folder "bisd" of folder "Users" of startup disk
alias "Macintosh HD:Users:bisd:Desktop:photos2.fpbf:pismall.gif"
end tell
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS"
activate
set display dialogs to never
open alias "Macintosh HD:Users:bisd:Desktop:photos2.fpbf:pismall.gif"
current application
get current document
document "pismall.gif"
get height of document "pismall.gif"
49.0
get width of document "pismall.gif"
116.0
get name of document "pismall.gif"
"pismall.gif"
end tell
tell current application
offset of "." in "pismall.gif"
8
end tell
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS"
save document "pismall.gif" in file "Macintosh HD:Users:bisd:Desktop:photos3:resized:pismall" of document "pismall.gif" as JPEG with options {quality:10} appending lowercase extension with copying
"Adobe Photoshop CS got an error: General Photoshop error occurred.
- The parameters for command “Save” are not currently valid."

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and then takes that information and puts in onto the graphic in a formatted way (positioned
onto the graphic centered, for example).
The external document may have between 25 - 100 different addresses. The graphic will only
be able to hold a certain amount of addresses (x), so after the graphic is filled with that
number(x), another graphic would need to be created for the remaining addresses, and so on.
How does one accomplish this?

Well, that’s certainly beyond Actions’ scope but can be done with JavaScript – do You have any experience with JavaScript?
Apart from that it may, if the text is not to be edited in a Photoshop-specific way and pdf-output is OK, be easier to make a multipage document in Indesign for something like this.

Bridge and Photoshop Actions

I have a number of Photoshop actions that run scripts. These scripts have been brought forward from CS and work fine when run inside Photoshop CS2. They are of varying complexity, but I've tested the following with a simple script: alert ("Hello World");
When I run the actions from Bridge, via the Batch command, the file opens correctly in Photoshop and I then get an error "the command scripts is not currently available".
Why is this? Do I need to alter my scripts to run in Photoshop CS2?
Note that when I save the action as a droplet, I can drag files onto the droplet and the script is triggered correctly.
John

[email protected] wrote:
> Shay, that's exactly how the error arises - as a Photoshop batch there's no problem. Do try saving the action as a droplet and dropping files onto it from Bridge - it's not a perfect solution but can be a helpful workaround.
I just answered this on the PS forum and thought I'd pass this along. If I'm
wrong, I'm sure Bob will correct my analysis...
When you make a call via BridgeTalk from one application to another it uses the
scripting engine to do the communication. So when you make a call from Bridge to
PS to execute an action in PS, the script engine in PS gets fired up and
app.doAction is called to run the Action. One "feature" of PS actions and
scripting is that you can't have a script call an action which then calls a
script, which is is exactly what you are attempting to do here. You're only
workarounds at the moment are to:
1) have everything done in the action (may not be possible)
2) have everything done in a script (may be tedious)
3) have a toplevel script in PS called by Bridge which does what it can and then
invokes actions to do what most of the work, with the restriction that the
action can't turnaround and call a script.
This is not a simple bug for adobe to fix as it gets to the heart of the
Action/Scripting framework.
ciao,
-X

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