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Adding a Save As operation

Adding a Save As operation - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding a Save As operation

We've now managed to set up a batch processing solution wherein Photoshop goes and takes an entire folder full of images and flattens them and changes the resolution and converts them to CMYK and applies some sharpening, as well. The problem is that even though we've set up the Batch command, so it goes ahead and saves all the images to a separate folder, so it doesn't save over the originals, which is great by the way, we're saving to the original file formats. That is we're saving what were formerly layered files as PSD documents. We're saving what were formerly flat files as JPGs, and it turns out that's not what anybody wants. When you're preparing CMYK images, whether for a designer or a commercial printer or whathaveyou, what they are going to expect is flattened TIFF files. That's the industry standard anyway, and so that's what I want to deliver. That means I need to introduce an additional operation into my Convert to CMYK action. So I still have Arles Amphitheatre and…

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