From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training
Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training
Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files
- [Instructor] A great way to process several images and save them out as different file formats is by using the image processor script. While we can run this from Photoshop by choosing file and then scripts and then image processor, Photoshop doesn't enable us to select just a few images in a folder. You can select an entire folder or sub folders, but you can't just choose maybe three images that are in a folder. So let me cancel out of here, and instead I'm going to use Bridge. I'll select these three images so I have at least one horizontal and one vertical, and then choose tools and then Photoshop and image processor. The image processor script realizes that I had three images selected in Bridge, so it's only going to process those images. Now we can save them in the same location or select a different folder, and we can save as jpeg, PSD or TIFF files. We can just do one of these, or we can do all three of them. So let's say I need to save as JPEGs. I'll set the quality to 12, the biggest file with the least amount of compression, but it will be the highest quality. I want to convert the profile to SRGB and I want to resize this to fit, and I'm going to resize it to 800 by 800 pixels. Now, you might be concerned that that would squish these images and it would distort them to fit within that 800 by 800, but what I'm really defining is the longest edge. So regardless of if I have horizontal or vertical images, the long edge will be 800 pixels. Then I'll save them also as Photoshop files, resizing them to 2000 by 2000 pixels. If I wanted to, I could run an action. So actions run a sequence of commands to help automate your workflow. If you want to find out more about automating tasks, be sure to watch my course, Automating Photoshop Techniques. Alright, because this is a script when I choose to run it. It launches Photoshop automatically, even if Photoshop isn't running. Okay, let's return to Bridge. Here we can see the two folders. We have our JPEGs, and if I select the first one, it's 800 by 533 pixels, and the next one is 533 by 800, just depending on the orientation. Okay, let's scroll down and look at the PSD files. Again, the longest dimension is going to be 2000 pixels. One important note, if you are working with raw files, you need to know what your workflow settings are in Adobe Camera Raw because if you select raw files and then run the image processor script the script hands the files over to ACR under the hood, and then ACR will export them with the workflow settings that you have set in ACR. So it might be easier just to use the batch settings in camera raw in order to save out derivatives of your files. So there you go. A fast and easy way to save multiple images as jpeg, TIFF, or Photoshop files all at once. Using the image processor script.
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