Apply Hue/Saturation layer to lots of images

[FixitDave]

I have 75 different images and would like to apply 4 different hue adjustment layers to each image and save them so I have 300 new images.

Idea on how to do this is;
Copy hue adjustment layer
Merge the lower hue layer with the top image layer
Name the merged layer to what the image layer was
Save newly merged layer and image layer in PNG format

Doing this 300 times manually will take me an age, are there any scripts for CS4 that can help automate this?

Thanks
Dave

 

[Steve]

Have you tried to record Actions to do this?

 

[FixitDave]

I have had a little play with it, but it records that I selected a specific layer, and re-run of the action selects the same file.

Also the new merged layer takes on the name of the hue adjustment layer instead of the image layer :-(

 

[FixitDave]

Does anybody know if there are scripts available to do each job that I can merge into one script?

 

[ibis]

play with actions some more.

 

[FixitDave]

Thanks, but it always names the selected layer (ie 'select layer oma-kan') and therefore actions isn't an option :-(
I'm using repetitive manual actions lol

Duplicate hue layer several times
.
Copy image layer name to clipboard
merge a hue and a image layer
Rename new merged layer from clipboard
Move new layer to group
Copy image layer name...etc

75 images 4 colours of each image...going to get RSI at the end of it

 

[colleague]

maybe this little movie helps http://youtu.be/tFof8wFh7us

first you have to create 4 folders on your desktop hue1,hue2 hue3 hue4
watch how I would do it in a foreign language -

 

[FixitDave]

Wow, thank you so much...the batch process is running as I type and working great