I have around 6000 files from a manuscript scan job (40 + books ) which need to be split into two images (pages) per file and then saved as sequential tiffs. I already have a canvas split action in Photoshop but want to do the saving part via UXP for obvious reasons. I am not a programmer but unders…

Ok, so you’re asking quite a few questions in one here but I’ll try and give you a high level overview: 1.) Get files as UXP entries 2.) Loop through each file and: 2.1) Run split Action (or do it with UXP!) 2.1) Loop document layers and: 2.1.1) Export layer with new name - see batchPlay commen…

Whilst not exactly what you want to achieve this example has a lot of the ingredients and demonstrates using batchPlay and executeAsModal, two core UXP concepts, alongside JS asynchronous code.

Thanks Timothy, I really appreciate your help and the mention of batchPlay and Persistent Storage API will take a look at this and see if I can get something working!

Save sequential tiffs open documents (Photoshop)

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Timothy_Bennett October 13, 2023, 1:32pm 5

And this thread offers a more high level approach to how to structure some UXP JS.

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Save sequential tiffs open documents (Photoshop)

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