Action to save into current folder

[Anthraquinone]

There was a recent question "adjusting "save as" action" that is similar to mine but does not show me what I need to know.
I have an action to save an files as a png which works OK but what I really need is for it do save the image into the current folder, whatever that may be, not the one that was written into the action when I recorded it. Is this possible?.

 

[[ iLLuSioN ]]

How about a script?

copy this script to your scripts folder (extension should be *.jsx)

If "saving as a PNG" is the only function you want to include in your action, you can also assign a shortcut to your script.

You can also integrate the script into your action.

#target photoshop

(function () {
    if (app.documents.length === 0) {
        alert("No document open.");
        return;
    }

    var doc = app.activeDocument;

    // Derive file name and target path
    var nameNoExt = doc.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, ""); // remove extension
    var extension = doc.name.split('.').pop().toLowerCase();
    if (extension === "png") {
        alert("This document is already a PNG. Saving would overwrite the original. Operation cancelled.");
        return;
    }

    var targetFolder = doc.fullName.parent;
    var targetFile = new File(targetFolder + "/" + nameNoExt + ".png");

    // Overwrite if it already exists
    if (targetFile.exists) {
        try {
            targetFile.remove();
        } catch (e) {
            alert("Failed to remove existing file:\n" + e);
            return;
        }
    }

    // PNG save options – moderate optimization (compression 6 of 0–9)
    var pngOpts = new PNGSaveOptions();
    pngOpts.compression = 6;          // 0 (none) … 9 (max) – 6 ≈ moderate
    pngOpts.interlaced  = false;      // no interlacing
    // Make sure profile is NOT embedded
    if (pngOpts.hasOwnProperty('embedColorProfile')) {
        pngOpts.embedColorProfile = false;
    }

    // Save with lower‑case extension
    doc.saveAs(targetFile, pngOpts, true /*asCopy*/, Extension.LOWERCASE);

    // Done
})();

 

[Anthraquinone]

Thank you for the reply. I have not used scripts before and did not think about doing it that way. Not surprisingly as I am not familiar with the script programming language. I will try you script and see if it works for me.

AQ

 

[[ iLLuSioN ]]

If you need help - just let me know.