photoshop actions
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Can someone. please. fucking tell me --
why the fuck.
when i create a save action in photoshop. to save my psd out as a targa.. sometimes.. it saves it properly -- diffuse.tga
and some-fuck-times the action gets created poorly or something and always saves it as diffuse_copy.tga
why the fuck.
when i create a save action in photoshop. to save my psd out as a targa.. sometimes.. it saves it properly -- diffuse.tga
and some-fuck-times the action gets created poorly or something and always saves it as diffuse_copy.tga
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WHY ?
No seriously, i have the same problem, and it's really annoying, t seems so random.
So if you wanted to automate - make it flatten the image, save it, then undo the flatten.
syncviews -- doesn't seem to matter actually. i'm toggling that bitch and it's still just got the "as copy" button greyed out.. obstinate whore..
And every new version they bring out to improve it breaks a few more things.
My TGA save action flattens then undo's it. Pretty painless.
"Problem" now is that for each new psd project you have to first define the location of the specific tga by double clicking the "save as tga" sub-action, in the action. Otherwise it will remember the previous location/file and just overwrite that.
So technically its a action that you have to modify slightly per project, but I don't think its that much of a hassle.
http://home.insightbb.com/~jamestaylor/
Best suggestion i can give would be to save the file first manually, then in the action double click the file in the browser instead of typing the name. works like a charm, kind of obnoxious, but hope it helps.
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I got fed up with changing action directories while working with multiple projects and folders.
Seems there is no difference between chosing 'save' and 'save as' when recording the action and you can't stop it half-way through.
Wanted it to be case of hit F8, crop/flatten, pop-up save-as dialogue, reverse crop/flatten.
Will investigate Vtools then, damn, thought it'd be a whole lot simpler than a 3rd party plug-in to do saves with file-numbers.
Basically what I have is an image double width, where left halft is the photo ref + palette splodges, right half is the image I'm drawing , then to crop out just the drawing each time, save incrementally, then stitch the sequence in the RAM player for sped up drawing awesomeness.
Pretty sure that's a setting you can turn off in the main vTools dialog.
I'll have to see if I can get clearance from work to release my version, it's a lot simpler and a little faster than vTools (although slightly less flexible but I think for most people that's not a problem).
There are ways to get incremental file naming in photoshop, but you gotta get a little creative.
in File > Scripts, there are a few scripts that will allow you to save layers to file, layer comps to file, etc. They will save with _####, you can change how many numbers it draws by editing the .js script file. Search for "zerosum" and there should be an area there that puts the 4 numbers in the file name. Alternatively, if you can comment out the numbering and have it use the layernames and or layer comp names.
With tga saving action, you can use File > Automation > Batch Action, and manipulate the file names. You may be able to do some naming increments in the Batch menu. This may not be exactly what you're looking for, as Batch actions are best used when needing to run the same action on multiple files, not the same file with multiple actions.
in a more brute force way, you can write a script for photoshop to save it, save the file #, and increment per save. When you create the action, you just call the script. Wouldnt be a bad idea when creating a timelapse.
it may be more cumbersome, but you could make an action that merges, selects all, copy,paste, move back history 2, swichto document "merged" paste, create new layercomp, save file. When you finish, you can run the File > Scripts > Layer Comps to Files to save all layer comps out to individual files. If you name the layer comps w/ numbers, you'd probably want to edit out the numbering bit in the script before running it, or you'd get name_##_####.tga
You could also have it paste into a new document, and instead of creating a layercomp, create a new keyframe in the Animation Timeline. you're finished you can use File > Export > Movie, and choose individual frames, where they'll incrementally number the files. Or, you could just have it dump out the actual .mov or .flv, or whatever other movie file you want straight from Photoshop.
Yeah, it is. I turned it off a couple days ago. Now the only annoyance is that I mapped the vtools save to a hotkey but it doesn't work. It always comes up with a debug window. It works fine when I go to it through the menu though...
About your tools, I like simplicity. Less flexibility shouldn't be a problem. For me, if it saves in the same directory with the same filename, the only option I then care about is include alpha channel, or do not include alpha channel. Being able to hotkey it and have it work would be a bonus.