Batch Process:
Here I shall go through the steps of how to do a batch process in Photoshop.
Processing my photos for this website was quite hard, meaning the rotating, resizing, renaming and compressing, it can be tedious and time consuming, especially if you do everything one file at a time.
Using the Actions palette in Photoshop, I can record all of those little tweaks I perform to prepare my photos, then "replay" them to instantly complete the same list of tasks on multiple images. This process is called a batch operation, as it can save you a ton of time since you'll be able to zip through each of the same, tedious tasks any number of times with a single click of the mouse.
For this I’ll use my own screen shots of this with my examples of resizing an image from my digital camera, for the part in my research called (My Journey). Most digital cameras capture photos in high resolution that are thousands of pixels wide -- great for studying the details in a scene but hardly ideal for sharing on the web. I’ll shrink these images to a manageable size that's easy to upload to my website and I will go through on how exactly to do this, in case if you would like to either learn this process, or you will need to know if you’re uploading a lot of images to a website. Then you would have to learn this specific process.
To begin, open a large digital image in Photoshop. I’ll be using ‘My Journey’ photos to record the action I will need to automate
1 Go to Window > Actions to bring up the Actions palette.
2. Click Create new action and type "Resize for web"
3. Click Record.
4. In the main Photoshop menu bar, go to Image > Image Size.
5. Select "Pixels" from the drop-down menu next to Width.
6. Type in "600" or any other small size, here I used ….. and click OK.
7. Go to the Actions palette and click on the Stop button to stop recording.
You should see a new action in your palette, like this:
Using the Actions palette in Photoshop, I can record all of those little tweaks I perform to prepare my photos, then "replay" them to instantly complete the same list of tasks on multiple images. This process is called a batch operation, as it can save you a ton of time since you'll be able to zip through each of the same, tedious tasks any number of times with a single click of the mouse.
For this I’ll use my own screen shots of this with my examples of resizing an image from my digital camera, for the part in my research called (My Journey). Most digital cameras capture photos in high resolution that are thousands of pixels wide -- great for studying the details in a scene but hardly ideal for sharing on the web. I’ll shrink these images to a manageable size that's easy to upload to my website and I will go through on how exactly to do this, in case if you would like to either learn this process, or you will need to know if you’re uploading a lot of images to a website. Then you would have to learn this specific process.
To begin, open a large digital image in Photoshop. I’ll be using ‘My Journey’ photos to record the action I will need to automate
1 Go to Window > Actions to bring up the Actions palette.
2. Click Create new action and type "Resize for web"
3. Click Record.
4. In the main Photoshop menu bar, go to Image > Image Size.
5. Select "Pixels" from the drop-down menu next to Width.
6. Type in "600" or any other small size, here I used ….. and click OK.
7. Go to the Actions palette and click on the Stop button to stop recording.
You should see a new action in your palette, like this:
Here’s to the nitty-gritty part:
Here's the part where I get ‘My Journey’ images lined up resize all of them at once. Start by creating two folders on your desktop. Name one "Originals" and name the other "Resized." Dump all of the images you want to batch, resize into the "Originals" folder. Then
1. Go to File > Automate > Batch to bring up the Batch dialog:
2. Under the Play header, find the "Resize for web" action you just recorded in the Actions of the drop-down list.
3. Under the Source header, select "Folder" in the drop-down list and click Choose. Navigate to the "Originals" folder you just created on your desktop.
4. Check the boxes to suppress warnings and options dialogs.
5. Under the Destination header, select "Folder" in the drop-down list and click Choose. Navigate to the "Resized" folder you just created on your desktop.
6. If I wanted to change the names of my files, I can do here under the File Naming sub-header. We'd recommend selecting "2 Digit Serial Number" and keeping the extension.
7. Make sure your photos will be viewable to all by checking all of the "Compatibility" boxes.
8. Click OK.
Here's the part where I get ‘My Journey’ images lined up resize all of them at once. Start by creating two folders on your desktop. Name one "Originals" and name the other "Resized." Dump all of the images you want to batch, resize into the "Originals" folder. Then
1. Go to File > Automate > Batch to bring up the Batch dialog:
2. Under the Play header, find the "Resize for web" action you just recorded in the Actions of the drop-down list.
3. Under the Source header, select "Folder" in the drop-down list and click Choose. Navigate to the "Originals" folder you just created on your desktop.
4. Check the boxes to suppress warnings and options dialogs.
5. Under the Destination header, select "Folder" in the drop-down list and click Choose. Navigate to the "Resized" folder you just created on your desktop.
6. If I wanted to change the names of my files, I can do here under the File Naming sub-header. We'd recommend selecting "2 Digit Serial Number" and keeping the extension.
7. Make sure your photos will be viewable to all by checking all of the "Compatibility" boxes.
8. Click OK.