Pleasse Help! Something wrong with PS's "Save As" option...

[penter]

Ok, so I'm creating an online portfolio (I'm an art student)
and i have to resize a whole bunch of images in Photoshop (CS3).
Im using actions to do this, but for some reason two actions only let me save the edited files with the "Save: As Copy" option selected. Why is that??!!!
here's a picture:

See how the "As Copy" option is selected and grayed out??

Please help me change it? or else I'll have to manually remove the "copy" from all file names afterward... 🙁

 

[Blue Velvet]

It's far easier to run your action as a batch on a set of images within a folder, then you can save them where you want, with the filenames you want.

File>Automate>Batch

 

[penter]

yeah, i know. thats what im doing....

the thing is that after running the action i realized that all the names were saved with "copy" attached to the end of the file name. I'm trying to re-record the action now so that it DOESNT save as a copy, but as you see, the "Save: As Copy" option is selected and grayed out! 🙁
does anyone know why???

Please help?

 

[Blue Velvet]

If you use the batch feature correctly, then you won't have this problem. Just set it to Override Action 'Save As' commands.

It won't let you save it as a copy because you're saving jpgs from layered files.

 

[penter]

aaahhh, so you say that i should flatten the layers??

 

[Blue Velvet]

Flatten the layers as the last step, don't put a 'Save' event in your action... and use the Batch feature as explained above. In the Batch dialogue box, you select your action and specify where the images are saved to.

 

[penter]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! you're my hero for today!

this will save alot of time, and the faster i can get this done, the faster i can start with the college application process 🙂