Photoshop Batch Action Save for Web and Devices

Sjakelien picture Sjakelien · Dec 10, 2009 · Viewed 48.4k times · Source

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

Ben picture Ben · Nov 23, 2011

Using photoshop batch from bridge does maintain the filename providing you have not changed the original filename whilst setting up the "save for web" action in Photoshop.