Comments on: Droplets For The Lazy

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:26:56 +0000

For some reason, Photoshop goes through all the processes-it looks like it is anyway, but then it doesn’t save to the folder that I tell it to. There’s nothing in the folder, Help!

By: Terri

Terri — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:32:12 +0000

Great tutorial, thanks~!

By: John

John — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:59:42 +0000

The droplet works great but the file renaming does not work with Save for Web (cs3) but it does with Save As. In Save for Web it just saves the file with existing doc name, no custom naming.

Anyone had this problem?

By: da5id

da5id — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:25:15 +0000

I must be doing something wrong. I made the action and the droplet on the desktop, but when I try and drag a folder of jpgs onto the droplet I get a black “bar and circle’ saying I’m not allowed to drop it on there. If i try and drag one image onto the droplet, it opens up photoshop but nothing happens.

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By: Marco Jona

Marco Jona — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:53:17 +0000

Another thing: you can place your droplet in your SendTo folder (Documents and Settings/[your username]/SendTo); this way, you can just select the pictures you want to apply your action to, right click -> SendTo ->[your droplet name]

By: Marco Jona

Marco Jona — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:48:24 +0000

Zenone: What you need is to have a “Save as” in your action (and not Save); then in the droplet check the Override Action Save As Commands”.
Now you have 2 options:
1) Choose the Destination as “Save ad Close” and your image will be saved without prompt (overwrite! be careful).
2)Choose a specific folder and parameters for the name in the destination and you will get copies of your images, but always in the same directory.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:56:37 +0000

I’m still using PS7. When I made my first droplet and dragged a folder of images to it, I used the original images and much to my dismay, every image was modified to the droplet/action settings and I lost the “originals”. My solution was to copy all the images I wanted automated by my droplet, keeping the originals intact. I don’t know how newer versions of Pshop handles droplets.

By: zenone

zenone — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:02:50 +0000

This process works fine, except it renames any files i process with the droplet to the name of the image i used when i created the action, how to i keep the name of the file I am processing?

By: Raymond

Raymond — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:22:54 +0000

Ah, that explains it! Thanks very much this is what I need to interface with Photoshop. I was going to use OLE Automation but this seems more straightforward. I want to take the images that my tethered shooting script downloads and have them immediately processed in some way. So I can just make a droplet with the required settings then have the script call it.

By: Patti

Patti — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:41:20 +0000

I followed all the steps, created the droplet, ran the action and the pictures were resizing.

But i can’t, for the life of me, find where they were saved.

They didn’t save to the destination folder I specified.