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Creating Droplets in Photoshop CS3!
Posted on Sep 30 2008 by Chad Casey
Lautus Design PhotoShop Droplet Tutorial
Photoshop Tutorial Droplet Icon
Today we'll learn about creating Droplets in CS3. If you have an assembly line of repetitive tasks ahead of you in Photoshop, this tutorial is for you!
First, you need to know a little bit about Photoshop actions. These are scripts that perform a set of tasks in Photoshop (such as resizing, coor adjustment, renaming, etc.), which are prerecorded and stored in the program itself. To perform an action on a single image, simply select the script in this pane and press the triangular 'play' button. Convenient, right?

While this may save you a ton of time on one or a few documents, you may in fact have dozens of images on which you need to perform the same set of actions. This is where the Droplet comes in very handy.

A Droplet is a file that runs the same scripts you would find in the actions pane, but can run on any number of files in a queue. Once we make one, you'll see that all you have to do is drag and drop files and/or folders onto the Droplet file and watch.

So let's get started. Click on File>>Automate>>Create Droplet...

Click 'Choose...' and select a location for the Droplet file. Choose the Action you want to perform from the dropdown menu. Then click on the 'Destination' dropdown menu and select 'folder.' Click on the 'Choose...' button beneath that and select a destination folder where you want the output files to be saved. Click 'Choose.' If you plan on using the Droplet on whole directories with Subfolders, check the 'Include All Subfolders' option. Click 'OK.'

Now click 'OK' again if you haven't already to exit the Create Droplet window, and find your Droplet where you saved it. Try dropping images on it. Now drop a whole folder of images, and grab yourself a coffee while you're at it.




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