Photoshop export

While waiting for Flash to integrate with Photoshop (if ever, we’ve not yet heard the final word from the U.S. government or shareholders), here are two PS actions
that I use quiet frequently.

Simply select "Load Actions" from your Photoshop Actions Panel menu and point the the file.

You’ve probably at some point exported a semitransparent PNG from Photoshop to Flash. The basic method – creating a new document, moving the layer to be exported to the new document, cropping and saving – is quiet time-consuming. I got fed up with this while having to export tens of layers, so I created these little actions. They simply take the selected layer and save it as a 24-Bit transparent PNG. It’s doing all the cropping (adding a safe region of two pixels in case you want to break the bitmap apart) and there’s one actions for saving layers with effects and one for saving simple effect-less layers.

The resulting cropped layer is exported to C:Export.png but you can define your own export path by double-clicking the Export-command within both actions.

Enjoy.

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  mike March 23, 2006 at 15:07

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