Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to make an
automation droplet in Adobe Photoshop. All right, let's get started. Ok, so this little arrow icon
right down here is actually a Photoshop droplet. And the cool thing about it is, if I go up to my
Finder and I drop a bunch of files on top of that arrow, it will open everything in Photoshop and
do a certain action on them. And then it'll even save them in a folder that I set up.
So it can really speed up your workflow if you have a lot of repetitive tasks to do on a bunch
of different files. Ok, so let's set up a droplet in Photoshop. Ok, so I've got this design, and
there are two things that I want to do with this design and all my designs: I want to remove the
extra pixels from the top and the sides. And then I want to resize the whole thing to 5500 pixels.
And the reason I need to do this is, I want it to look right on one of my print-on-demand websites
that I upload all my artwork to. And if I do all those things, it works perfectly. So first,
we need to create an action that will do this. So I'm going to go to Window> Actions and open
my Actions Panel. And now I'm going to start a new folder. We'll call this one My Actions.
And now we need to add a new action inside the folder. So I'll come down
here to the bottom and choose the New Action button. I'll call this one Trim and Resize.
I'm going to save this in the set My Actions that I just created, which is this folder. And then I
can also set a function key to this, but because I'm creating a droplet, I don't need to do that.
So I'll go ahead and hit Record. So now it's recording every action that I make
inside this document. So I have to be very careful to only do things that I want it to record.
Ok, so first I'll come up here to Image and >Trim. I want it based on the Transparent Pixels,
and I want to trim away the top, the bottom, the left and the right. So I'll say OK. And,
as you can see, it's recorded that right up here in my Actions.
And now I want to resize so I'll go to Image>Image Size. And then I'm going to change this from
Inches to Pixels. And I want the width of all of these to be 5500 pixels, and then proportional
height, which this little button right here will keep it proportional if it's checked.
Ok, so that looks good. I'll say Ok. We can see it got a little bit smaller. But those are the only
two things that I needed to do. So I'm going to come down here and push the stop button.
Now we'll want to save the set. So I'm going to get right on that folder. And then choose
Save Actions. And you can put these anywhere you want just on your desktop, or wherever. So I'll do
that. And now we can create our droplet. So I'll come up here to File>Automate>Create Droplet.
And now I've got this dialog box, and I have a lot of different options. First, we'll want
to save the droplet itself, which is the little program we're writing, which is this little arrow.
So where do we want to save that? I'm going to save it on my desktop also.
We'll call this one Trim Resize, and it's actually creating a little program
when we do this. And I'm going to save it in this folder. So we'll go to Save, and then the
next section is Play. So we'll choose the set we just made. I'm going to choose My Actions,
and there's only one action in there. But if there were more, you could choose which one you want.
We're going to want to do the Trim and Resize. And then you have some options here
for how you want it to behave. I usually leave these blank. If it comes across any errors when
it's trying to do this, it's going to stop. But you can also have it log the errors to a file.
Ok, the destination is where it's going to save the new files. So I want it to be a folder,
but we can also choose No Destination, or we can have it just save and close the
current document. I don't really like to do this because it's overriding something that
I might need later. So I always put them in a new folder. So now we'll choose that folder. I'm
just going to create a new folder out here called Trimmed Files. And that's the folder I'll choose.
You can even change the way it's going to save each file. I'm just going to have it name the
new files, document name, whatever it already is, and then the extension and then we'll say OK. Ok,
so if I go back out to my Finder, we can see the new little Trim and Resize droplet that we made.
And we also have our folder out here. So I'm going to drag a bunch of files onto the droplet.
So now Photoshop is running in the background, and it's opening all these different files and
trimming them and then resizing them and saving them in that other folder.
So if we open this folder, we can see those new files coming in here.
Ok, so now all of our files are in here, and I'm just going to open one of these in Photoshop and
see how it did. Ok, we can see that it's cut off the extra pixels on the edges. And now if we go
to Image Size, it has saved it at 5500 pixels wide, so it's really easy to create and use an
automation droplet in Photoshop. All right, if you liked this video and you want to see more videos
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