that's weird !! it worked with me perfectly !!listen mate, watch this tutorial :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcZp2h5WXdAit a good one and if you do it step by step your defintely gonna have the result that you wanted . and i say mooooostly you didn't save the croped file as a psd ..anyway just watch the tutorial and you'll be happy in about 5 minutes :naughty:
Again. I'll apologize for perhaps still not being clear about this. I can --and I have-- accomplished the desired output by applying actions in a batch to sets of 200+ images. This works fine and it results in 200+ files per section being cut out. However, this required SIX different actions to be recorded. Furthermore, the actions use the RECTANGULAR MARKEE tool to crop the image and extract the desired portion.
The action goes something like this:
"Set Selection" - This is the rectangular markee
"Crop"
"Save" - Saving to a different directory
"Close"
That's it. Six of these with different sizes and position for the rectangular markee and I was done. I had to run 200 files through the six different actions in batch mode to get what I wanted. In between each run I had to rename the resulting files or they'd get overwritten with the output of the next action's batch run. No big deal.
What I am asking for is a way to do this with ONE batch run, not six. And, further to that, I am trying to determine if this can be done by using the slicing tool rather than the markee-then-crop.
The slicing tool would be nice in that, in one document, you could define all of the required cutouts and then have all 200 (or more) files batch-processed in one run.
This doesn't seem to work now because the "Save for Web and Devices" tool will overwrite the files from the prior run.
Let's say you need to slice each image into six sub-images. If you have 200 source images you should end-up with 200 x 6 or 1200 sub-image files at the end of the process. Right now, if I try to use the "Slice" tool in combination with "Save for Web and Devices" and a batch the end result is SIX files, not 1200. Each run simply overwrites the prior runs' files with the exact same name. Not the desired result.
Perhaps this clarified it for you?