I have a “Photoshop action” that I want to run on a series of jpg images as they are dropped into a folder.
Basically I am shooting images to a folder on my harddrive which I would like to run a photoshop action on. The action ends by sending the image to my printer. This would basically give me a print of every image that is shot. Currently, I manually click the image in the Photoshop file viewer and then run the action. Is there a way to make my Photoshop action (or droplet) a “folder action” that takes place after a new image is dropped in the folder?
Thanks
I am also curious about this. You do know how to batch process correct? Meaning, you know that in photoshop you can actually apply an action to all of the images inside a specific folder. Just thought I would check.
The trick is simply to have an applescript that runs that batch process. You can download the photoshop actionscript guide here and then look on page 20 which shows you how to target the batch process via applescript. The only problem is, I am fairly thick headed, so those guides NEVER help me (including the applescript dictionaries) unless I see a written example. I don’t know where you type the “properties,” where the heck the “object” goes etc. unless I see it written out.
So PLEASE, if this helps you, please let me know if you find an EXAMPLE of what a very basic applescript looks like that calls the batch process. I can help you with photoshop batch processing if need be. Good luck!
I’ve never had much luck with folder actions, and prefer to use droplets or stay-open applets that watch a folder.
But here’s a quick example of a folder action you may want to try:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
repeat with an_item in these_items
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS"
activate
open an_item
do action "Your_Action_Name" from "Action_Set"
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to