Rod,
Excellent. I'm glad that worked for you.
Now I'm going to talk you through recording an "action" of the script, and then using that in conjunction with the "image processor." This is a much more powerful way of using the script, but takes a few more steps to set up properly.
1) Make sure you have an image file open in Photoshop.
2) Open the actions pallete in Photoshop. The easiest way to do this is through the "window" menu. Click on the "Window" menu at the top of your Photoshop window and then move your cursor down and select "Actions." This should open up your actions pallete.
3) Create a new action set. At the bottom of your actions pallet is a set of six icons. Hover with your mouse over the third icon from the right (looks like a folder) after about a second or so you should get a popup that says "create new set." This just confirms that your over the correct icon/button. Now click on this button and you will get a small window titled "new set." Type in a name (call it Rod's Actions or some other descriptive name) then click OK. Your new "set" should now be highlighted at the bottom of the actions pallete. This is essentially a "folder" for the action you are going to record.
4) Begin recording your action. At the bottom of your actions pallet, hover over the second icon from the right, and wait for the popup that confirms you are over the "create new action" button. Click on the button. You should see another new window titled "new action." Type in "watermark action using script" or some other descriptive name and click on record. From this point on, Photoshop will be recording your mouse clicks in an "action" (which is like a script, but with a difference that we will take advantage of in a few minutes.)
5) Run the script. From the File menu select "Scripts" and then the name of the watermark script you want to record. Let the script play all the way through. When its done, click on the square button at the bottom of the actions pallete (the first button on the left), this will stop the recording of the action. You now have an "action" that you can use in a batch process to watermark your images.
Now I'll talk you through using this action in a batch process in conjunction with the image processor. This is just an example, so after you see how it works you can use this process in the future.
6) Go into Bridge and single click on a couple of files to select them.
7) On your Bridge "tools" menu, select "Photoshop" and then "image processor." You should see the "Image Processor" window pop up, with four numbered steps.
Step 1 in the image processor window says "select the images to process," and underneath this should say "process files from bridge only" with a number in parentheses showing the number of files that you selected in Bridge. (When you run the Image Processor from Bridge, Step 1 will always default to "process files from Bridge Only.")
Do NOT check the "open first image to apply settings" block. This is only used if you are opening raw images and want them all to use the settings applied in the first image.
You can leave the settings in step 2 at their default settings (Save in Same Location) and the image processor will save your new files in a sub-folder inside your current folder.
8. Under Step 3 in the Image Processor, select "save as JPEG" and type in "8" in the box afer "Quality" (JPEG 8 is a good compromise between quality and size).
9) Check "resize to fit" and then type in 800 in both the width and heigth boxes.
10) Check the "Convert Profile to sRGB" box. (You want to use sRGB when posting to the web.)
11) In step 4 of the image processor window (Prefrences) check the "run action" block. To the right of the "Default Actions" block is a drop down menu (blue arrow) click on this and select the action set you named in step 3 above (Rod's Actions). In the next block over, select the "watermark action using script" that you recorded in steps 4 and 5 above.
12) In the Copyright Info box, type in the text you want to use for your watermark. (Yeah! we're finally there!
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13) Click on the "Run" button in the upper right corner of the image processor window. (Kind of curious why they didn't put that button at the BOTTOM of the window!)
The image processor will run and batch process all the images you selected in Step 6 above. It will resize the images, convert to sRGB profile, place your copyright information in the file, and save the file in the new folder with the watermark. If you selected the watermark script that had a sharpening step, it will sharpen the images as well.
The next time you want to batch process a bunch of images to get them ready to post, all you have to do is run the image processor and select the action you recorded earlier. (No need to re-record the action in the future.)
By the way, if you don't want to include the watermark, just uncheck the "run action" step in the Image Processor window, and you can use the Image Processor to batch process your images, resize, and saving as JPEG etc. without a watermark.
I hope this helps. It is late at night here, so it is possible that I forgot a step or two. Please let me know if you have any problems with these instructions.
Keith