To Process A File With A Droplet; To Edit A Droplet (Imageready); To Adjust Droplet Batch Options (Imageready) - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

To process a file with a droplet

1 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 starts the program.
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Droplets
A. Photoshop B. ImageReady
In ImageReady, you can control droplet processing in the following ways:
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To temporarily pause processing, click Pause in the Batch Process dialog Box. Click Resume to continue the
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processing.
To cancel processing, click Stop.
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To edit a droplet (ImageReady)

Double-click the droplet or Choose File > Open and select the action to open the droplet window. The droplet
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window looks like a simplified version of the Actions palette.
Edit the droplet just as you edit an action:
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Change the order of commands by dragging them in the droplet list.
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Delete commands by dragging them to the Delete icon
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• Add a command by dragging a state from the History palette to the area of the droplet window in which you want
the command recorded.

To adjust droplet batch options (ImageReady)

You can 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.
Do one of the following:
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• Before you create the droplet, select an action and choose Batch Options from the Actions palette menu.
After you create the droplet, double-click the droplet to open the droplet window, and double-click Batch Options
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at the top of the droplet list.
Select Original (same name and folder) to save the original file with the same name and in the same folder.
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Select Optimized to save an optimized version of the file. Then do any of the following:
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For In, choose the location in which you want to save the optimized file.
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• For If Duplicate File Name, choose how and whether to append numbers or letters to indicate the optimized file
in cases of duplicate file names.
For Modify File Name For, choose whether ImageReady appends or rewrites the file name using Windows,
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Mac OS 9, or UNIX file-naming conventions.
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