Creating actions in photoshop.....

[tegwin]

When I resize my photos to go onto my website (600px high for fullsize and 300px high for thumbnails) I use PS... create an action and then click on each photo in turn and run the action.


Firstly.. Is there any way of getting PS to detect if the photo is portrate or landscape and resize accordingly?

And secondly

is there any way of selecting an entire group of photos and getting PS to perform the action on them all at the same time?

I am basically looking at the easiest way to streamline my photo resizing opperation as its way to time consuming...

I have PS CS4 if it makes any difference...

[Tycho]

In the file menu there is an option for automate > batch process. You can select an action to perform on a directory of pics and put them in another.

[bulb763]

and for the portrait / landscape conundrum there is an option in there somewhere to constrain sizes, so for example you would constrain them to 600x600px. Im not on my PS PC at the moment, bit ISTR that it is hidden in the file menu somewhere, not far from the "batch" option

[Cabinet Enforcer]

Alternatively, google for Irfanview, it's free, really good for batch resizing and is also a good photo viewer.

[Famous Graham]

bulb763 said:

and for the portrait / landscape conundrum there is an option in there somewhere to constrain sizes, so for example you would constrain them to 600x600px. Im not on my PS PC at the moment, bit ISTR that it is hidden in the file menu somewhere, not far from the "batch" option

If you mean the one in the Image Size dialog, that just adjusts the other axis in line with the aspect ratio and your input for the first axis.

I've not seen anything that works across portrait and landscapes alike without intervention.

Alternatively, use Lightroom for your entire workflow (even if you're only using jpgs, not RAWs). Particularly if you download and install the Mogrify plugin (which allows custom borders amongst other things). LR has a handy "longest edge" option for resizing.

Edited by Famous Graham on Tuesday 10th February 16:35

[Cabinet Enforcer]

Famous Graham said:

I've not seen anything that works across portrait and landscapes alike without intervention.

Alternatively, use Lightroom for your entire workflow (even if you're only using jpgs, not RAWs). Particularly if you download and install the Mogrify plugin (which allows custom borders amongst other things). LR has a handy "longest edge" option for resizing.

The software I mentioned above has "longest edge" and "shortest edge" among it's options, as well as resampling of various types (as opposed to basic resizing) and can apply sharpening (among other things) in an amount of your choosing. All very handy for web resizing. Just output files to a folder, then batch the folder after you have finished with your chosen editing software.

[Major Bloodnok]

Famous Graham said:

bulb763 said:

and for the portrait / landscape conundrum there is an option in there somewhere to constrain sizes, so for example you would constrain them to 600x600px. Im not on my PS PC at the moment, bit ISTR that it is hidden in the file menu somewhere, not far from the "batch" option

If you mean the one in the Image Size dialog, that just adjusts the other axis in line with the aspect ratio and your input for the first axis.

I've not seen anything that works across portrait and landscapes alike without intervention.

Alternatively, use Lightroom for your entire workflow (even if you're only using jpgs, not RAWs). Particularly if you download and install the Mogrify plugin (which allows custom borders amongst other things). LR has a handy "longest edge" option for resizing.

Edited by Famous Graham on Tuesday 10th February 16:35

Yep.

Additionally, if you're uploading to one of the sites that he supports, Jeffrey Friedl has some excellent export plugins for uploading direct from lightroom (and they play nicely with LR2/Mogrify).

The goodies are here and include uploaders for Flickr, Picasa, Zenfolio, SmugMug and Facebook.

[4hero]

Not sure about cs4, but in cs3 I use: File, Scripts, Image Processor.

Select the source Folder, then Destination.

Tick "Save as jpeg", adjust quality to suit, and tick "Resize to fit". In both boxes underneath "Resize to fit" change W to 600px and H to 600px. What this will do is make the longest edge 600px.

Just do the same again for your thumbnails, but change the destination to Thumbs or something

[Famous Graham]

Cabinet Enforcer said:

Famous Graham said:

I've not seen anything that works across portrait and landscapes alike without intervention.

Alternatively, use Lightroom for your entire workflow (even if you're only using jpgs, not RAWs). Particularly if you download and install the Mogrify plugin (which allows custom borders amongst other things). LR has a handy "longest edge" option for resizing.

The software I mentioned above has "longest edge" and "shortest edge" among it's options, as well as resampling of various types (as opposed to basic resizing) and can apply sharpening (among other things) in an amount of your choosing. All very handy for web resizing. Just output files to a folder, then batch the folder after you have finished with your chosen editing software.

Sorry, I was specifically referring to Photoshop.

[Famous Graham]

4hero said:

Not sure about cs4, but in cs3 I use: File, Scripts, Image Processor.

Select the source Folder, then Destination.

Tick "Save as jpeg", adjust quality to suit, and tick "Resize to fit". In both boxes underneath "Resize to fit" change W to 600px and H to 600px. What this will do is make the longest edge 600px.

Just do the same again for your thumbnails, but change the destination to Thumbs or something

Aha. I've never seen that - always run the resizing as part of an action rather than looked at that. Nice one

Still prefer Lightroom though

[4hero]

Famous Graham said:

Aha. I've never seen that - always run the resizing as part of an action rather than looked at that. Nice one

Still prefer Lightroom though

Always happy to help

I'm a big fan of lightroom too.