#BATCH IMAGE RESIZE PHOTOSHOP PRO#

I just went and got a beer (or two), it took about 2 hours to process on my late 2013 MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM.īelow are the finished files vin the destination folder with their now more SEO friendly naming convention: Now time to Tinyfy! My original files folder in the case was 15.04GB, big and I processed the entire folder in one go. If you have a lot of images and they are large, you might want to separate the originals into batch folders (you can still use the same destination folder). You shouldn’t have to worry about checking any of the Compatibility boxes in this case. The _ in _800x800 will separate that part from the original file name. I don’t need a space after document name (which is the original file name minus the extension). In this example, I wanted to add Schooner Bay Co as the first part of the file name, be sure to add a space, – or _ to separate the name from the rest of the file name information (otherwise it will all run together). On the right side, choose the Destination folder you created, Beside to check the Override Action “Save As” Commands to append the processed file names. You can set the error file destination, if you like. The source folder will be your original images. Here are the settings I used in this example: Once the actions have been loaded into Photoshop and your folders and original images are good to go, go to File>Automate>Batch to begin the batch process. Source and destination folders To batch process using Scripts on a Mac. The original images will remain unchanged, the actions will create new versions. Remember, all images in the folder will be processed, regardless if they are in subfolders.

The 800×800 folder will be my processed images destination folder. psd files in your originals folder, you will have to add an extra step in the actions to flatten the layers right after opening. jpg, etc.) in the SUPPLIED ORIGINALS folder.

In this example, I have the original supplied files at high resolution, in various formats (.tif. Create a new folder for the destination of the process images. Photoshop actions for batch resizing of images.īefore you begin the batch process, make sure all of the images you want to process are in one folder. You will point Photoshop to the files during the batch process. The “File or folder not found.” warning under Open in each action is AOK. To create your own set of actions, check out this Adobe tutorial:īelow is a screen cap of the order actions I recorded to create the two actions.

#BATCH IMAGE RESIZE PHOTOSHOP INSTALL#

To install the actions, follow this from Adobe: There are two actions in the file, one to convert images to 800×800 square, and one to resize an image to a max size of 1024 in either orientation (so you can see the difference in the two, the 800×800 resizes the canvas to make the finished image square, the 1024×1024 action does not).

#BATCH IMAGE RESIZE PHOTOSHOP DOWNLOAD#

If you would like to use the Photoshop resizing actions I created to do the initial resize processing of the images, first download my Nick’s Actions.atn file from Dropbox. Screen cap of the TinyPNG plugin automation scripts in my Scripts folder (Mac) You will only need the first three scripts from the download page. The link to download the TinyPNG Photoshop plugin scripts you will need to install:

#BATCH IMAGE RESIZE PHOTOSHOP HOW TO#

If you would prefer to create a batch process (rather than use the scripts– useful if you want to automate even more of this workflow), here’s a link to good step-by-step instructions on how to create an Action to batch process with TinyPNG Plugin: The instructions for installing the neccesary TinyPNG Photoshop scripts for automation are here: In order to compress the images after resizing, you will need to buy and install the Tinypng Photoshop plugin. Below is a tutorial on the basics of batch processing product images for uploading to your Woocommerce store.

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