Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual page 418

CHAPTER 15
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Automating Tasks
To create a droplet from an action (ImageReady):
For best results, make sure that the action
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contains at least one Set Optimization command.
To add a Set Optimization command, adjust the
settings in the Optimize palette, and then drag the
droplet icon (
the part of the Actions palette where you want to
add that command.
If you do not add a Set Optimization command to
the droplet, ImageReady will process files using the
optimization settings in place at the time the
droplet was created.
Create the droplet:
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• Drag the name of the action from the Actions
palette onto the desktop. The droplet has the same
name as the action it was created from. You can
rename the droplet as you do other desktop icons.
Select an action, and choose Create Droplet from
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the Actions palette menu. Name the droplet,
choose a location where the droplet will be saved,
and click Save.
Creating droplets for use on different
operating systems
When creating droplets that may be used in both
Windows and Mac OS, keep the following
compatibility issues in mind:
When moving a droplet created in Windows to
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Mac OS, drag the droplet onto the Photoshop
icon. Photoshop will launch and update the
droplet for use in Mac OS.
) from the Optimize palette onto
• When creating a droplet in Mac OS, add .exe to
the end of the droplet name. Using the .exe
extension makes droplets compatible with both
Windows and Mac OS.
• References to filenames are not supported
between operating systems. Any action step that
references a file or folder name (such as an Open
command, Save command, or adjustment
command that loads its settings from a file) will
pause and prompt the user for a filename.
Using droplets to process files
To use a droplet, simply drag a file or folder
onto the droplet icon: ( ) in Photoshop or ( ) in
ImageReady. If the application you used to create
the droplet is not currently running, the droplet
launches it.
In ImageReady, you can control droplet
processing in the following ways:
To temporarily pause processing, click Pause.
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Click Resume to continue the processing.
To cancel processing, click Stop.
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Editing droplets (ImageReady)
In ImageReady, you can edit the commands in a
droplet in the same ways you edit the commands
in an action. You can also set batch options for a
droplet before or after you create it. For example,
you can set the droplet to operate in the
background during execution, so that you can
work in other applications while ImageReady
processes images.