batch export psd files to png

Question

I have thousands of psd files to save as png. The psd files are not different, except for a small text in the center of a image. Is there a way to automate the job?

Solution 1

Yes. Open your actions window. Create new action. Record yourself opening, saving the file as png and closing the file.

Then under File -> Automate -> Batch. Point it to your psd folder and select your action. It should run through the files saving them as pngs.

A quick google search may help if you're new to actions.

edited per author input :}

Solution 2

XnView does the job pretty well. It can batch convert most files into most formats. It also has batch transformations and batch renaming among other things.

I use it regularly to convert PSDs to JPG/PNG/GIF.

Solution 3

I would use Irfanview 's powerful batch engine. Free and super-fast.

• Go to the Folder in Irfanview Thumnails
• Select all files
• Rightclick and "Start batch dialog with selected files"
• Select PNG as output format.

Comments

[user1330271]

The action must be: open one file, save the file. If I don't open a file it saves thousands of copies of the same image. Thank you.

[Christopher Marshall]

Whoops! it's been over a year since I've used it haha, sorry about that. Thought the batch function would auto-open the files.

[StapleGun]

This worked great for me since I only wanted to convert some files within a directory. Photoshop had no easy way to only process some files.

[Mycodingproject]

In my experience, if you are using a new version of Photoshop and you use Export as PNG for the sake of quickness, you should override the save as process while running the action. That's why use Save As -> and choose PNG for file type while recording your actions.

[Mycodingproject]

This is the only solution that worked for me. Photoshop is not very good at save as png while recording it as action.