photoshop actions - trying to save a storyboard
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hey guys! i'm trying to create a photoshop action to do something kinda tricky...
short question: is there a way to create a save-as action in photoshop that will automaticaly re-number files? like, if i create an action to save a file as "blah", and keep running that action, to have it spit out "blah001, blah002, blah003", as so forth.
Long version:
A friend and i have been working on a cartoon, and we've got the whole thing storyboarded out. we set up a digital camera and took a bunch of photos of the storyboard sheets and now i'm trying to crop out the thumbnails and save them out.
there are 3 pannels in each photograph, and if you overlay all the photos on top of each other, the pannels line up properly, so if i make a selection of a thumbnail on one image, it'll properly line up with a thumbnail on the next image. the pannels are also in cronological order.. that is, picture one has the pannels 1-3, picture two has pannels 4-6, etc etc
i'd like to figgure out a way of making some sort of action or batch set up dealy so that i can position a selection, crop, auto-levels, save out the image as a jpeg, then undo so i get the full size image again, crop the next segment, auto-levels, save as the seccond picture, and then do the same for the third pannel, but do this over MULTIPLE FILES.
i can do that fine for one file, but the problem comes with loading up the next picture and doing it. it'll just save over the existing file names. so if i can generate a 1.jpg, a 2.jpg, and 3.jpg from one image, loading the next image and running the same action will overwrite 1.jpg, 2.jpg, and 3.jpg, instead of making 4.jpg, 5.jpg, and 6.jpg if i can just get photoshop's batch function to automaticaly number images instead of over writing, i think i can get this done.
any ideas? thanks
short question: is there a way to create a save-as action in photoshop that will automaticaly re-number files? like, if i create an action to save a file as "blah", and keep running that action, to have it spit out "blah001, blah002, blah003", as so forth.
Long version:
A friend and i have been working on a cartoon, and we've got the whole thing storyboarded out. we set up a digital camera and took a bunch of photos of the storyboard sheets and now i'm trying to crop out the thumbnails and save them out.
there are 3 pannels in each photograph, and if you overlay all the photos on top of each other, the pannels line up properly, so if i make a selection of a thumbnail on one image, it'll properly line up with a thumbnail on the next image. the pannels are also in cronological order.. that is, picture one has the pannels 1-3, picture two has pannels 4-6, etc etc
i'd like to figgure out a way of making some sort of action or batch set up dealy so that i can position a selection, crop, auto-levels, save out the image as a jpeg, then undo so i get the full size image again, crop the next segment, auto-levels, save as the seccond picture, and then do the same for the third pannel, but do this over MULTIPLE FILES.
i can do that fine for one file, but the problem comes with loading up the next picture and doing it. it'll just save over the existing file names. so if i can generate a 1.jpg, a 2.jpg, and 3.jpg from one image, loading the next image and running the same action will overwrite 1.jpg, 2.jpg, and 3.jpg, instead of making 4.jpg, 5.jpg, and 6.jpg if i can just get photoshop's batch function to automaticaly number images instead of over writing, i think i can get this done.
any ideas? thanks
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Or you might try using 3ds max's Material Editor. I've used it to batch-process sequential images before. You could load the storyboard images as an IFL, set up the crop size, then right-click the ball to render.