Power, Speed & Automation with Adobe Photoshop

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Learning to Work with Documents and Filenames

The most common object you are likely to work with using the Photoshop DOM is a document. Writing a script to work on a single document might be useful. Writing a script to work on many documents is more powerful. Recall that the Photoshop automation technique for this procedure is batch processing.

A batch process usually opens each file in a folder, runs an action on it, saves the file with a new name and file format, and then closes the file. The preceding chapter described how to run an action from a script. That chapter also showed how to create a function with the ...