Photoshop Actions Droplets

[Sven]

Hi @ all!

I just started to "play" with actions and droplets in PS.
I am searching for a way to tell PS within an action to save a file in a subfolder of the current hierarchy.

Example:
Source-Path: /Users/Sven/Documents/Fotos/2011/20110401_EventX/*.jpg
Destination: /Users/Sven/Documents/Fotos/2011/20110401_EventX/processed/

I currently figured out no way to tell PS to "save in a subfolder within the current path".

Background of this is in short words: After a shooting I'd like to see the images in B/W and Sepia side by side. I Want do send my selected images from the source path to the droplet, running an action like:
open image => convert to B/W => save as imagename_bw.jpg in the destination => convert to sepia => save as imagename_sep.jpg in the destination => next image

Any suggestions?

[Hayo Baan]

While I'm certainly no droplet expert, I'm afraid what you want can't be done, directly.

What you could do is have the droplet save to a specific location though. If you make this specific location an alias to where you really want your images to end up, I think this would work. The only problem would be that you'd have to change the alias every time you process files from a different location.

Another option would be to simply move them after you've processed them.

Hope this helps,
    Hayo

[Sven]

Hi Hayo!

This is exactly what i figured out... But I was hoping that is something that I did not see or find :/

Thanks for your clarification!

BR
Sven

[FVlcek]

Couldn't you use Photoshop scripting? It allows Javascript or VBS, and you can use the script inside a droplet just like other actions. I can't help you with the specific script commands, but in theory this should work. I have seen some PS scripts that created subfolders in the main folder for specific photos.

[Sven]

Hi!

I am not a scripter or programmer at all

So this will not work for me...
But thanks for that suggestion!

BR
Sven