Unfortunately I don't know any such sites. But I'll explain what I can. I might have been misleading when I mentioned Photoshop's script. I meant what in Photoshop are called actions and they aren't that hard to create and use. Open one of the images you wish to manipulate.
- Open Actions-panel from Window-menu.
- Create a new set of actions for your own scripts by pressing the black arrow in the right corner of the Actions-panel and choosing New set....
- Name your set of actions (e.g. 'my actions') and press OK.
- Create a new action by pressing the black arrow in the upper right corner of the Actions-panel again and this time choosing New action....
- Name your action with any name you wish(e.g. 'alpha cut') and press OK
- Now you can notice that the button(Record-button) in the lower margin of the actions-panel with a red circle in it is pressed down and activated.
- You can now do the picture the modifications you wish Photoshop to perform for all the images in the sequence. I cannot remember if drawing tool apply but filters and image adjustments and such will certainly be recorded to the script.
- For example if you wanted to cut the alpha channel from the background you would do the following: 1. double click the background so it becomes a layer instead of being a background.(This enables the cut with the alpha channel)
- Create a selection of the Alpha channel (Carrara creates a Mask-channel) by Command-clicking the channel or by choosing Load selection... from Select-menu.
- Inverse the selection to cut the background instead of the objects
- Make a cut with the selection by pressing Command+X or choosing Cut from the Edit-menu.
- Save the file into a different format by selecting Save as... from the File-menu.
- Press stop from the Actions-panel.
- Your action is now ready.I recommend you to save your action from the black arrow in the upper right corner of the Actions-panel.
You can now apply it to all the images in your sequence. 1. Go to File, Automate and batch....
- In the Batch...-window select your set to the Set and your action to the Action.
- Choose the folder your sequence is in by pressing Choose... in the Source-section of the window.
- The Destination-section you unfortunately have to test because I haven't quite figured it out yet. I have gotten it to work but somehow but I still don't know what I have done. Probably the best option is to choose Folder to the Destination so the files are saved in to another forlder. Then press Choose... to select the folder.
- I think that if the Override Action Save AsCommands is activated Photoshop saves only with the Save as...-command set in to the Action and not automatically after completing the Action. So you should probably activate it.
- In the file naming-section you can alter the file name of the new created file.
Last time I tested creating a sequence of pngs with batch , Photoshop insisted on putting copy to the end of each file's name. I don't know if Flash recognizes sequence numbers if they are in the middle of the filename but I think think this might be a problem. That time I had only 24 frames so I manually changed the names but if there are more files it would be frustrating to change all their names. It might be possible to create a new batch that opens the pngs and saves them with a different name. After all there are the sequencial numbers in the filenames that Photoshop will recognize and do the batching it that order.
I hope this helps you atleast a bit. -Hannu Kulju