One of the strengths of AutoLoader is it’s ability to run an action right after your image is loaded, right before it’s saved, or both. This is useful for applying a starting point for your retouching at the beginning, or doing things like resizing, sharpening, or modifying the colourspace at the end.
In this video, I’ll describe how to use actions with AutoLoader, potential problems, and how to get around them.
In a nutshell, you can use any action you like, but there are things to be aware of. First, a “stop” step will cause errors, because it is halting the execution of the action, which AutoLoader interprets as an error. Next, a “duplicate” step causes problems because the duplicate file doesn’t have an actual file name until it is manually saved at least once. So when AutoLoader goes to save it, an error will be generated.
Describing how to fix these errors is beyond the scope of this post…there are just too many ways this stuff can be done to provide a definite solution. I suggest that you edit the action until it runs without stop or duplicate steps, at which point you’re golden. Usually unchecking the stop action works aces, but duplicate removal can be a bit more involved.
…Mike