Intelligent resize?

PRW wrote:

Is there a way to create a resize action where Photoshop automatically recognises the longest edge of the image and resizes accordingly?

I think you’re looking for File->Automate->Fit image…

Andrew

Thank you.I haven’t used Fit Image before but having just had a look at it, I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for.

I have a folder of images that I want to resize so that the each image is 700pixels along it’s longest length (some are portrait format and some are landscape). Fit Image seems to only work on the image you have open and you still have to tell it which whether you want to adjust the width or the length.

I need Photoshop to automatically recognise which is the longest side of each image and adjust it to 700pixels, resizing the image in proportion to it’s original dimensions.

Paul

PRW wrote:

Is there a way to create a resize action where Photoshop automatically recognises the longest edge of the image and resizes accordingly?

Andrew replied:

I think you’re looking for File->Automate->Fit image…

PRW wrote:

Thank you.I haven’t used Fit Image before but having just had a look at it, I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for.

I have a folder of images that I want to resize so that the each image is 700pixels along it’s longest length (some are portrait format and some are landscape). Fit Image seems to only work on the image you have open and you still have to tell it which whether you want to adjust the width or the length.

I need Photoshop to automatically recognise which is the longest side of each image and adjust it to 700pixels, resizing the image in proportion to it’s original dimensions.

Andrew’s method will work, and you just set an action for it. Even easier to use is Russellbrown.com’s script for CS1.

And, please, do quote just enough of the previous post so folks don’t have to go back and forth to get context.

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John McWilliams

"PRW" wrote in message

Is there a way to create a resize action where Photoshop automatically recognises the longest edge of the image and resizes accordingly?

Yes. It is File – Automate – Fit Image
(You enter the horizontal and vertical dimensions into which the image must fit. It is scaled down to fit by whichever dimension is greater than either given.)

CS2 ships with a 640×480 ‘Action’ you can apply to any number of files at once.

"PRW" wrote in message

Thank you.I haven’t used Fit Image before but having just had a look at it, I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for.

I have a folder of images that I want to resize so that the each image is 700pixels along it’s longest length (some are portrait format and some are landscape). Fit Image seems to only work on the image you have open and you still have to tell it which whether you want to adjust the width or the length.

No, no, no. Create an action of your ‘fit image’, apply as you please using the ‘batch’ option – to a whole folder, or all open, or whatever are selected if you are using the Browser. See your Actions. It’s got a 640×480 already in there as an example.

Sorry I was testy – it’s just that when a person pays almost a Grand for a program and doesn’t know its particular virtues…. well, maybe you got it for nothing somehow.

PRW wrote:

Thank you.I haven’t used Fit Image before but having just had a look at it, I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for.

I have a folder of images that I want to resize so that the each image is 700pixels along it’s longest length (some are portrait format and some are landscape). Fit Image seems to only work on the image you have open and you still have to tell it which whether you want to adjust the width or the length.

Did you know Photoshop comes with a manual and a Help function? I bet you can find there what ‘Fit Image’ REALLY does, not what you THINK (wrongly) it does.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl

" (You enter the horizontal and vertical dimensions into which the image must
fit. It is scaled down to fit by whichever dimension is greater than either
given.)"

Thank you for that explanation. I see how it works now.

Paul

"Johan W. Elzenga" :

Did you know Photoshop comes with a manual and a Help function?
[…]

Mr. Elzenga, methinks these people who ask such stupid questions gotta be using pirated software; nobody who works hard for the $ to buy Photoshop would be so friggin lax (to be polite).

peace, John, and thanks for all the great help you have been to the Rest of Us over the years.

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2

Thank you for that explanation. I see how it works now.

Now tell us you got a licensed copy … or are ya just friggin lazy?

"2" wrote in message

Thank you for that explanation. I see how it works now.

Now tell us you got a licensed copy … or are ya just friggin lazy?

This has nothing to do with the question, and may discourage others from asking questions.
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Mike Russell
www.mike.russell-home.net

On 2006-03-14 21:59:26 +0100, "reboot" said:

Sorry I was testy – it’s just that when a person pays almost a Grand for a program and doesn’t know its particular virtues…. well, maybe you got it for nothing somehow.

I’m sorry, but 🙂

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

"2" wrote in message

Thank you for that explanation. I see how it works now.

Now tell us you got a licensed copy … or are ya just friggin lazy?

This has nothing to do with the question, and may discourage others from asking questions.

My deepest apolgies to the readership and the original poster.

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

"2" wrote in message

Thank you for that explanation. I see how it works now.

Now tell us you got a licensed copy … or are ya just friggin lazy?

This has nothing to do with the question, and may discourage others from asking questions.
—

Mike Russell
www.mike.russell-home.net

PS the bootlegs DO have HELP files included