converting PSD to Jpeg

[phisheyelilly]

Hello All.
I have about 500 edited images that I need to burn to CD. I used Photoshop CS and carelessly saved most of the files as PSD or PPD files whatever photoshops default file is. Now I need to convert them all to Jpeg or tiff for the client. How do I do this??
I know there has to an easy way to fix this and it is just starring me in the face... or at least I hope so..... I'm just trying to figure out this crazy Digital world. Thanks for all your help

[tim]

Write an action to load the file and save it as a jpg. Then you just select all the images you want in the file browser, choose batch, then choose your action, etc. There should be loads of tutorials on the net, I read it in a book I bought.

[steven]

Also if you PSD are 16bit files then you will also need an action to down sample them into 8bit since JPG is only 8bit.

steve

[CyberDyneSystems]

Also if you PSD are 16bit files then you will also need an action to down sample them into 8bit since JPG is only 8bit.

steve

I beleive this happens automatically in the jpeg conversion,.. as you say jpeg is only 8bit,. so by converting to jpeg.. ;)

[Belmondo]

If your .PSD files have layers in them, you'll have to collapse them before converting to JPG (I think). I know I can't save .PSD files as JPEG without collapsing them, but that might be me. :oops:

[Nightcrawler]

If the color space is set to Adobe RGB, you might want to convert them to sRGB, since there are a lot of JPEG viewers out there that don't pay attention to the attached ICC color profile.

[tim]

Save for web might automatically make them 8 bit, but save as won't convert from 16 to 8 bit. Also, save for web removes exif data, whereas save as doesn't.

[phisheyelilly]

I am so new to photoshop. How do I make an action to save as Jpeg. Thanks everyone for all your help. Also I know this was dumb of me, but I erased the crw version of the pic. Does this mean I have to redo all the pics?? Thanks again for all your help.

[tim]

http://www.digitalmediadesigner.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=27784
http://www.iboost.com/build/software/pshop/actions/1117.htm
http://user.fundy.net/morris/photoshop21.shtml

etc. Google can find thing quite easily, alternately buy a book.

[Jesper]

Here's another site with a lot of tutorials, tips and tricks, actions, etc. for Photoshop: http://www.photoshopsupport.com/

[pdrow]

www.smartshooter.com has great tutorials - one of which is creating actions.