I have a problem which no amount of hair pulling seems to solve.
I've checked the old posts, I've watched videos on the Adobe website to no avail.
I'm trying to convert some 300 images from raw to low quality jpeg to send to people before i get down to the nitty gritty editing stuff. I made an action in CS2 to open the image in camera raw, click on 'open' again to get it in photoshop, resize, smart sharpen, and then 'save as' a low quality (8) jpeg. Then I made this into a droplet on my desktop and ticked the open box and the save as commands, and am also saving into a different folder on my desktop i've labelled 'conversions' for this very process.
I then drag and drop a few files onto the droplet icon, photoshop opens... and nothing happens... the conversion folder remains empty and the raws just sit there.
Anyone have any ideas because i've tried everything I can think of.
I suggest using Lightroom. Get a 30-day trial here. With all of the images loaded into Lightroom, click CTRL-A to highlight all of them, and then File | Export and export all of them to a folder of your choice.
thanks for the replies but i want to avoid using any other software if I don't have to, which I don't think I do as i know there's a way to batch process in CS2 alone using just camera raw and an action.
Also, i don't know what the script is with the Dr Brown thing.
Has anyone had this problem in just CS2 and camera Raw, and how did they overcome it?
I have CS3, which may be similar to CS2. If memory serves, once upon a time, I highlighted a whole whack of RAW files to open in the CS3/CR dialogue. It opened them all up, with one in a large view window and the others lined up down theside as thumbs. I could 'select all' above the thumbs, then Save As. I think there was a batching dialogue at this point, maybe you can choose an action there?
In CS2 ive always opened Photoshop. Goto the open dialog open them all at once what this will do is open them all in ACR. in the top left click select all. Then set your file output options and save.
And in the right hand corner you will see the progress or if you hit done itll open up the ACR status dialog.
Never had a problem doing this i even did it last night.
Also, i don't know what the script is with the Dr Brown thing.
Well, You should look into it. CS2 runs bunches of scripts right now as is. Anything under your File/Automate (which is where this will end up) is a script. Scripts are just that, a script that runs computer commands and program commands within CS3 (and any other programs).
Otherwise get hold of CS3, or maybe even just Bridge - that's how I do it...can apply batch actions via the Image Processor.
Image Processor is actually in PS CS3 (not sure if in CS2-but Dr Brown had one for just CS also), but accessible through Bridge....the Dr Brown thing is pretty much like that, and able to save 3 different types, sizes, etc. files at the same time, and maybe a few other things. Available for CS to CS3.
