WTF, I used to be able to save over files in photoshop now in CS2 when I record and action to save over my targa file it save with a copy instead of just letting me save over it like I used to. It's pretty annoying to have to do an extra step because some a hole programmer decided to change this. Is there a way around…
Eric in photoshop 7 this didn't happen. I used to work on my psd file with layers and save as targa all the time. I currently have no alphas. If you did a save as you had the option to save as copy or to replace whatever file you wanted. Glad you posted your action to bypass this. Alex
The save-as-copy is happening because the file has layers or multiple alphas or whatever features that aren't supported by the format you want to save into. Remove those and the Copy name goes away. I made an Action for this as well, the same basic thing but a bit shorter/quicker, and not filename-dependent... 1. Flatten…
Well I kind of found a work around to this problem. I made a new action with some extra steps. Here is my solution. 1. Save a copy of my source psd file in this case c_core.psd and saved it as c_core copy.psd 2. Flatten image 3. save as my targa in my case c_core.tga 4. close 5. stopped recording and added a function key…
hey guys. I have a pain in the neck from this aspect of Photoshop at work when working on textures, so I fiddled around one time and made a script which saves out tga and/or jpg (with optional rescaling factor for the jpg). you can noodle around in the file and change things to 0 or 1 to make it do different stuff. All you…
don't ask me why, but if you append an underscore something to your filename the action doesn't use the "save as copy" function. so if your filename is texture_something.tga, it works fine (!) therefore I only use the action with the flattenning and stuff for the ones I can't use underscore with.
Tumerboy I really hate when Adobe decides to screw crap up that worked fine since version 4. That's the first time I used the program back in 1998, now they screw with file saving again! They did it with seven and people got pissed because you couldn't save targas with alphas like you used to they had to patch it and they…