I need help saving 81 images in CS4

Okay. Here's my issue.

Lets say I've made a two tone skin with shadows and shading seperated out... I want to make it have 1 of each skin color and 1 of each secondary skin color. From 9 main colors thats 81 results.

How would I automate this, even in part, for the following.

1.) changing the two colors to the layer masks which hold the shading.
2.) Automate the saving so that it comes up with it's own file name, because save as... 81 times is terrible.

I know that photoshop has batch and automation options but I know nothing about using them. Anything to make this faster would help and be appricated.

You could record a new (or series of new) actions to do it but in all honesty unless you are going to be doing this exact same scenario many times it will take you longer to create, test and debug the actions than it would to just do the "save as" 81 times.

If however you will be doing this alot then it would be worthwhile to build the actions or to script it.

Sorry with further thought you might want to consider creating a layer comp with a name for each of the ones you would like to output, I assume 81 of them then under scripts you can run the script Export Layer Comps to Files. It will then automagically save each layer comp out to whatever file type and setting you want including adding a prefix that you select in front of the name given to each layer comp.

That should do it for you I think. Well as long as you are using CS2 (maybe CS3) or higher.