Creating Droplets in Photoshop

Adroplet is a mini application that can play Photoshop actions. The benefit to using droplets is that they allow you to apply batch actions without having to open the Batch dialog box in Photoshop. Droplets can be placed anywhere on your system. All you have to do is drag and drop a file (or folder of files) onto a droplet icon and—presto! The action is applied. To create a droplet, choose File --> Automate --> Create Droplet. Doing so displays the Create Droplet dialog box. Click the Choose button at the top of the dialog box and browse to the system location where you’d like the droplet saved (I usually choose the Desktop). Be sure to give the droplet a descriptive name before clicking Save. From the Set pop-up list, choose which action set (of the currently loaded sets in the Actions palette) that you’d like to select an action from. Then from the Action list, choose the action you’d like to apply to the droplet.

The rest of the dialog box is set up exactly like the Batch dialog box. Proceed to enter the same settings as you would when setting up a batch action. After you’ve finished applying the droplet settings, click OK. Photoshop creates the droplet and places it in the specified location. To run the action, simply drag and drop a file (or folder of files) onto the droplet icon. If Photoshop is not already launched, the droplet will launch it for you.