Photoshop Actions: Exact positioning not being recorded

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marc0047
Sep 18, 2005
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I am trying to create a Photoshop action that will "stitch" a group of scanned pages together side by side.

I can absolute position the images on the canvas with the free transform tool. However, when I check the recorded action, the position number is relative relationship, not an absolute.

When I repeat the actions again, the pages are misaligned because the actions are being performed with a relative relationship to the canvas.

Is there a way to make actions recored the *absolute* position?

Thanks,
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edjh
Sep 18, 2005
Marc0047 wrote:
I am trying to create a Photoshop action that will "stitch" a group of scanned pages together side by side.

I can absolute position the images on the canvas with the free transform tool. However, when I check the recorded action, the position number is relative relationship, not an absolute.

When I repeat the actions again, the pages are misaligned because the actions are being performed with a relative relationship to the canvas.
Is there a way to make actions recored the *absolute* position?
Thanks,
I don’t think so. You might try using Align to Selection for this, or perhaps a script. I think this would be done better in a page layout program?

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Roberto
Sep 19, 2005
Marc0047 wrote:
I am trying to create a Photoshop action that will "stitch" a group of scanned pages together side by side.

That’s a challenge. But tell us about the final purpose, the output – there may be another program that can do what you want.
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marc0047
Sep 20, 2005
A page layout program is not the best way to handle this because I need to output it to JPEG, and the final image size is not suitably managed by page layout program. But thanks for suggestion.
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marc0047
Sep 20, 2005
The final objective is to have one JPEG file with images stitched side by side like flat page spreads.

I actually just figured it out: Since Photoshop doesn’t record absolute positioning in Actions, the trick around this is to start off the document *without* opening the canvas size to the final size. So the script looks something like this:

1. Select second document
2. Select All
3. Copy
4. Select first document
5. Paste
6. Move document with Transform
7. Reveal All (or open up canvas size to the final size)

I had initially put step 7 in step 1’s place. What happens is that when the subsequent documents are pasted in the first document, the positioning is relative to where it’s pasted, which is random/centered.

Whereas if I don’t open up the canvas, the images are pasted one on top of each other in perfect relationship to each other. So when I move images around, they are all relative to each other, making the script reusable.

And it works! Anyways, I hope that made sense!

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