Dear CGTalk members 
I have multiple (400+) folders, each containing 3 .tga files. The names of those 3 files are the same in every folder (beauty, ambient & outline). I’m looking for a way to do the following:
Step 1: Open beauty.tga
Step 2: Use the alpha channel to duplicate the subject into a new layer
Step 3: Rename this layer to “beauty”
Step 4: Delete the Background layer
Step 5: Open ambient.tga
Step 6: Use the alpha channel to duplicate the subject into a new layer
Step 7: Rename this layer to “ambient”
Step 8: Copy this “ambient” layer to beauty.tga
Step 9: Set the layer style of the “ambient” layer to Multiply
Step 10: Open Outline.tga
Step 11: Use the alpha channel to duplicate the subject into a new layer
Step 12: Rename this layer to “outline”
Step 13: Copy this “outline” layer to beauty.tga
Step 14: Save beauty.tga as a .PSD file
Step 15: Automatically repeat these steps for every single one of those 400+ folders.
Actually, I did manage to get the first 14 steps working, but…
Now the “open” commands within the action refer to actual files, instead to filenames within a certain folder. So every time I play the action, it just uses the exact files I used when I was recording. Makes sense of course, but that way I can’t apply the action to multiple folders.
Any ideas/solutions?
Thanks!