I use to do this frequently. Just made separate actions for each group
of steps between the stops. Run a batch that contains all of the first
steps you want accomplished. Then do your manual operations to the
files. Then run a batch that does the remaining auto steps. That puts
all of the work that requires your input into one batch. You spend less
time in front of the computer. You can speed up considerably the manual
portion of the operations with a simple action that opens the files and
presents a dialog (like curves for example). This way each file is
opened and the curve dialog presented. You do the curve adjustment;
then the file is properly saved. The result is that you can do a
manual curve adjustment on each of a large pile of files in very short
order when you're not dealing with manually opening and saving each
image. If only a few of the images need a second step... say
Hue/Saturation... then make the action so that dialog is presented in a
zero correction state. To do that, use the add menu item command in
the action pallet. That way when batched, you just hit the enter key
to bypass that step and do nothing to files that don't need that step.
Bob Smith
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 08:06 AM, Simon Leibowitz wrote:
So, putting it another way. I want to run an action that includes some
stops
and starts and I want to batch this action on a folder of files.
Working on one file at a time, my action works. I must be doing
something
wrong?
Any suggestions much appreciated,
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