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baxxy
05.14.03, 03:59 AM
Hi
I am trying to thumbnail 1000's of images.
These images are products over real backgrounds but luckily they include a full clipping path, so that i can pull the product from the BG and place it on a white canvas.

But the problem is that these paths have different names!!!
Some are called 'path 1' others called 'outline' and so on.

And whenever i make an action to use the path to cut out the image and thumbnail the name of the path becomes set in stone.
That means if i set up an action that used 'Path 1' as my clipping path, and then used this action on an image that had a path called 'outline' that it would fail to work.

Does this make sense?:confused:

Basically i just want to know if it is possible to make an action that involves clipping paths that doesn't use absolute names in the action fields so that i can just use the default clipping path on the file instead.

Cone Graff
05.14.03, 06:38 AM
you can rename the path, while recording your action, maybe that'll work

I dunno, try it out

baxxy
05.14.03, 07:07 AM
already tried that, but as soon as you try and rename the path, the original path name is used in the action description.
So when i try and rename all the other paths with this action, it will only work if they had the same original name, otherwise it just complains that it cannot find the needed path to rename.

Cone Graff
05.14.03, 08:21 AM
Oh yeah, didn't think of that.

I have no idea man, sorry :(