Photoshop Actions

[Heather Knott]

I am working in 7. I am trying to write a simple action "open file (great), convert from rgb to cmyk (great), auto levels (great), save as (jpg to tif)(will not work). I get "could not save because file cannot be found". I check my paths over and over and it is were I want it to go and no go.... I would love some help on this one.. Thanks.

[YrbkMgr]

Heather,

First, drop the File|open part of the action, you'll find the action much more flexible.

Here's what you do.

Open a dummy image and record the following steps:

Image|Mode|CMYK
AutoLevels
File Save AS and pick a file name and location. Choose whatever options you wish in the Tiff Options dialog, and confirm the save.

Now, look at the action steps. For the File Save As portion you have to toggle the dialog to ON (that's the little square next to the action name).

When you open an image and run this action, you will be prompted for the file name and location, as well as your tiff options. If you don't toggle the dialog to ON, you are telling photoshop to save the file with the exact name, in the exact location as was recorded in the action.

If you want to run this action on many files in a Batch, you toggle the dialog to OFF, and use File|Automate|Batch, and tell it to "Override Save As Information".

Peace,
Tony