![]() Go to your “Thumbnails” folder and delete the image you saved there when you created your action. Our new Action is complete, and ready to use. Click the “Stop recording” icon in the Actions panel. Next we need to stop recording our Action. Make sure you save this file in the “thumbnails” folder that we created. Set your jpg parameters how you normally would and click save. Now let’s change the width of our image to 150 pixels wide. This will open the “Image Size” dialog box. To resize the image: Go to IMAGE –> RESIZE IMAGE. *Note: As soon as you create a new Action, your action starts recording, so go directly to the next step without doing anything else. ![]() Let’s name this Action “Resize 150 W” because we are going to resize the image to 150 pixels wide. This is signified by the icon that looks like a piece of paper with a curled edge. Click the “create new action” icon in the Actions panel. I like to keep my custom actions in their own set, so I can find them easier later on. To do this, we click on the folder icon in the Actions panel. ![]() We are only going to use it to create our Actions. This you’ll ensure that you have no duplicate images, or images with the same filename.įirst we need to open an image. When you copy your images, I recommend you copy them all to the root directory in the “original” folder, don’t use any subfolders. That way if something happens, you always have a backup copy of your original images. It’s always better to work on copies of your images, rather than the originals. ![]() Next, copy all the images you want to resize to the “original” folder. It doesn’t matter where they go, as long as you can remember where they are. For this tutorial, we’ll create the folders “original” and “thumbnails”. Since we are making thumbnails, we are going to make them all 150 pixels wide.īefore we go into Photoshop, we are going to create two different folders. Also, we need to decide whether or not to resize them by height, or by width. We need to decide how big our thumbnails are going to be. And believe me, this prep work can save you a lot of problems in the long run. Here we go….įirst off, we need to do a little prep work. So we are going to convert all our images to small jpg’s. For this tutorial, we are going to create a group of thumbnail images for a website gallery. ![]()
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