Learning Graphic Editing Basics with Adobe Fireworks CS3 06: Using Fireworks’ Batch Process

Many scientific and economic analysis software programs (GAUSS, Shazam, RATS, CATS, SAS…) support batch process. A batch process is also called macro. It’s a function that you can use to apply multiple commands to process a large data set. Another prominent software program that supports batch process is Microsoft Excel. Microsoft introduced Excel 5.0 in the mid-1990s. Microsoft incorporated Visual Basics into Excel 5.0, which eventually led to the death of once-dominent spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3.

Anyway, one of the major differences between Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop is that the former title supports batch process. (Adobe Photoshop CS3 now supports batch process.) For example, if you have several dozen PNG-formatted files and just want to change the format of those files to JPEG, you can apply Fireworks’ batch process to them at a time. You definitely don’t want to open each file and save it in JPEG, do you?

This 6-minute video tutorial shows how to use Adobe Fireworks CS3’s batch process. At first, we use it to change the format of 15 PNG-formatted graphic files to JPEG. Another example we show in the tutorial is to change resolutions and put files upside all at a time.

Key words: PNG, Batch Process, Export, Add, Custom, Edit, JPEG, Quality, Save Script, Same location as original file, Batch, Scale, Scale to Size, Commands, Rotate 180, Save Script, Custom location Continue reading →