Topic: Batch proces GIF's with Drop Shadow

Hi so I've never actually used PS for batch processing some files but here's the issue.

I created an action that will take an image, resize it, increase the canvas size, add some borders and a drop shadow and then save.

I'd like to batch automate this process but when i do so the images are opened as their original format (jpeg or gif) so when I try to add the layer style its complaining because I can't do it with this format. What I need to really do is somehow open these files and convert them to PSD's before running the rest of my actions but I can't seem to find an easy way to do this. I'm going to try copying the image into a new file but I'm not sure thats going to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Add a step converting the image to RGB right at the beginning

However, if the images are aimed for a website, surely the shadow doesn't belong in the images themselves, but in the CSS ( maybe at the cost of an extra tag to behave in non-standard browsers )