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I maintain my uncle's photography website and that work currently at least consists of resizing new photos to different sizes (full, retina-thumbnail, regular thumbnail) and putting them on the site (non-wordpress).

To speed up my workflow, I was hoping to create a script (probably Photoshop, but any application will do) that

  1. Scale the size to 1920 pixels width and export to folder ~/export/full/
  2. Scale the size to 400 pixels width and export to folder ~/export/retinaThumb/
  3. Scale the size to 200 pixels width and export to folder ~/export/thumb/

It's importing that quality, as well as file name is maintained, no matter what. My current Photoshop script forces me to set a specific file name and that should be a wildcard, i.e. remain the same as the inputs file name.

Thats why I'm hoping for a script that export and maintains filename, but how?

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Lucky for you Photoshop comes with a built in script to do just this!

We'll be using the IMAGE PROCESSOR script.

  1. Navigate to File -> Scripts -> Image Processor

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  1. Choose your output folder

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  1. Enter your dimensions

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  1. Run the script

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  1. Double check the size of the images.

  2. OPTIONAL Apply any other custom actions to the processing of the images.

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    Too bad I have to go through this -every- time, including for a single file. And I have to repeat those steps three times, since I need it in three different sizes. Image Processor for CC sucks, because I can remember the Batch functionality of CS6 was much better.. At least back then you had batch presets you could run on all open files with a single click, executing various commands.. This way I could record one action executing the export of all those three sizes. Update: Ah, I thought actions had gone, but they havent. :)
    – Sander Schaeffer
    Aug 29, 2017 at 15:31
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    Well, as by writing that comment I found some suggestions for myself for Photoshop with help of the 'actions' option. Luckily actions/SaveforWeb has been updated so it doesn't include the file name, but does the folder now. That was my problem a year ago. Still looking for a AppleScript/Automator solution that utilises more of a drag&drop (put files in folder) solution, instead of having to open Photoshop. But heck, this saves me already a lot of time :)
    – Sander Schaeffer
    Aug 29, 2017 at 15:53
  • @SanderSchaeffer If you don't want to open Photoshop every time, perhaps you could use ImageMagick? Here's an article on the subject pertaining to resizing images. "mogrify" is the function that should interest you.
    – Billy Kerr
    Aug 31, 2017 at 10:34

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