Exporting and scheduling posts

When the demands of social media are time-sensitive, the last thing you will want is to waste valuable time saving artboards as separate files, choosing a directory to save them to, and naming them every time. The following techniques seek to avoid the time-consuming challenge of exporting to the web.

Batch export artboards

Photoshop has provided batch export options for decades, but with the advent of artboards, these long-standing features were unable to process these new multi-page designs. Thankfully, Adobe eventually added a set of scripts that could export all artboards in a single document:

1. With the SM24 document open, go to FileExport → Artboards to Files. When the dialogue appears, click on the Browse button, select the 06-Social folder, and click Open. The location will default to the folder the document has been saved to each time.
2. Under File Name Prefix, set the current file to SM24, which is an abbreviation of “...