Web design involves working with a lot of images, and some of this work begs to be automated. It is so boring and monotonous. In particular, the process of reducing the size of photos can be automated using Adobe Photoshop.
It is necessary
Russified version of Adobe Photoshop CS5
Instructions
Step 1
Create a new folder and place the photos you want to reduce in size. Launch Adobe Photoshop and click Alt + F9 to bring up the Actions window. Click on the "Create a new operation" button at the bottom of the window that appears. In the new menu, you can specify a name for the operation and a key to start it, other parameters are not so important. Then click "Burn".
Step 2
Follow the steps that you need to do to reduce the photo. Open one of the photos that you prepared during the first step of the instruction: click the "File"> "Open" menu item (but it's faster and easier to press the Ctrl + O hotkeys), select the file and click "Open". Click the "Image"> "Image Size" menu item (or use the Alt + Ctrl + I hotkeys) and set the required parameters in the "Width" and "Height" fields, and then click "OK". Go to the Operations panel and click on the Stop Play / Record button, which is shown as a square. The template for batch resizing photos is ready.
Step 3
Click File> Automate> Batch. In the window that opens, in the "Operation" field, select the one that you created in the first step of the instruction. In the drop-down menu, which is located in the "Source" field, select "Folder", then click on the "Select" button and select the directory in which the pending photographs are located. Check the box next to Disable Color Management Messages. In the "Output folder" field, specify the path for saving the reduced photos (if you specify the source folder as this path, the files there will be replaced with a reduced result).
Step 4
When finished with the settings, click "OK". The process of reducing the photos will begin. The result can be seen in the output folder.
