What are you waiting for?
AutoLoader is a program that eliminates wasted time while you edit files in Photoshop. It handles all the tedious file management tasks, allowing you to focus on the work at hand. Born from the need to retouch hundreds of photos individually, it has become an invaluable workflow component for hundreds of photographers worldwide.
Limited Time Only
Is It For You?
Do you find yourself having to edit many files, one after the other? Do you hate the tedious steps required to manually load files one after the other? Do you hate wasting RAM pre-loading a bunch of images that slow your computer as they sit in the background doing nothing? If yes, then Autoloader is for you. Basically, it's for anyone that hates to waste time.
What It Does
Once you have set your options using the well-thought-out graphical interface, AutoLoader will open the files you specify into Photoshop, one after the other, with a single keystroke. It can load an entire folder of files, or only those you select in Bridge. It is both workflow efficient and resource efficient, and can save you hours of time. Yes, hours.
Why You Need It
Consider the fate of poor Chester, the photographer. He has just returned from shooting a wedding, and now has 500 photos he would like to edit. A daunting task for any photographer. What can he do? He has three choices.
Option 1: Manually Open Each File
He decides to load each file, one after the other, manually. This is perfectly workable. So then, he loads the first file and works his magic on it. Then he has to:
- click File, then click Save As
- in the folder dialog, navigate to the save folder, and click OK
- he's saving a JPEG file, so he next has to set his JPEG options, then click OK
- click File, then click Close
- click File, then click Open
- double-click the next file in the Browse dialog to open it. Of course, he forgets which file he had just finished with, and sometimes loads it up again by mistake.
Whew! That's a lot of clicking! He can speed this up a bit by using keyboard shortcuts, but it doesn't change the fact that he has to click through five events to switch to the next file. Consider this: if it takes him 10 seconds to do all that, for 500 images he will spend 83 minutes of doing nothing but closing and opening files. Yikes!
Option 2: Preload a set of files
Chester then thinks to himself, "Chester," (he talks to himself in the third person...it's just his way), "you can save some time by opening a whole bunch of files in advance. That way, they'll be ready for you when you want to work on them."
So Chester drops a set of 50 files into Photoshop to try to avoid all that pointing and clicking.
But his computer grinds to a crawl...and then it hits him: 49 of those 50 files are doing nothing but sitting there, soaking up RAM and other system resources while they wait their turn. And to add insult to injury, he still has to click through 4 of the 6 steps required to move through his files! Oops.
Option 3: AutoLoader
Click.
That's it.
Once you have told AutoLoader what to do, with one click of the hotkey the current image is saved, closed, and the next one is opened, all lightning fast. Sweet!
Cool Features
Turbo mode loads files up to 10X faster over previous versions. Nothing can beat it!
Bridge integration lets you AutoLoad files selected in Bridge.
Customize AutoLoader by running actions right after the image is loaded and right before the image is saved.
Is your edit too big for one day? No problem: AutoLoader remembers where you left off, so you can resume your session whenever you like.
Loads and saves PSD, TIFF and JPEG files.
Easy one-click install for CS4 users.
It's Attractive, Too
And how do you set up Autoloader? Glad you asked. Check it:
The Deets
AutoLoader works with all this good stuff:
- OS X on Intel and PPC
- Windows 7, Vista and XP
- Photoshop CS3 or CS4, 32bit and 64bit
- Bridge CS3 and CS4 for Bridge integration (duh)
Please Note: CS and CS2 are not supported