How-To’s Day: ImageReady: Conditional Actions

Most ImageReady and Photoshop users know how to use actions to save time and steps, but did you know ImageReady can insert conditional statements into actions?

Used as part of a batch or droplet, a conditional action can choose which images to affect and which to ignore. To borrow Dave Nagel’s example:  “Have you ever needed to resize a folder full of images, shrinking larger ones but leaving the small ones alone? The problem is that, while many applications let you automate the resizing process, they can’t differentiate between between large and small files; instead, all of the images are processed down or up to fit the dimensions you’ve specified.” With ImageReady’s conditional actions, however, batch-processed images can be scaled based on the dimensions of the original image, forcing “images to conform to a maximum width and/or height, rather than a fixed size.”

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