Anoying glitch!!??

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Owen_Evans
Aug 16, 2004
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I’m doing some horribly monotonous work and I wrote a simple action to make it go by a little faster and it’s driving me nuts.. All the action does is;
1. Cut my selection
2. Open a new document
3. Paste into the new document
4. Trim and save..

but sometimes when it opens the new document the dimensions are smaller than the area that was cut and I’m losing bits and pieces of the image. It’s funny how it’s always the simple things that don’t work. Any ideas out there on what might be causing this?? It would make alot more sense if it did it all the time, but it doesn’t and I’m not making any variations in the way I’m accomplishing my task..

Sincerely.
Horribly Frustrated 😛

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YrbkMgr
Aug 16, 2004
The only thing I can think of is that it sometimes happens too fast. Try slowing the action down with the flyout menu in the actions palette – maybe… step by step??

Another option is to change your action. When you have your selection you can:

1. Duplicate Image
2. Image|Crop
3. Trim
4. Save As

Peace,
Tony
OE
Owen_Evans
Aug 16, 2004
I never even thought of step by step.. I’ll give it a whirl. I think you’re right about it going to fast. there have been a few time that I noticed that the new document size just happened to be the size of something I had copied or cut earlier on. The only conclusion I could come to at that point was that it was somehow getting to that point in the action before the cpu had finished writing the new size to the clipboard.

The crop method works fine but unfortunately it’s unsuited for my specific purposes right now. I’m breaking screen-grabs up into multiple images and it would be a pain to have to paste the screen-grab 20 times or even to have to undo back to before the crop 20 times. It doesn’t sound like it would be a pain but that’s 20 x 1000.. 🙁

Thanks YrbkMgr
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YrbkMgr
Aug 16, 2004
I’m breaking screen-grabs up into multiple images and it would be a pain to have to paste the screen-grab 20 times or even to have to undo back to before the crop 20 times

I don’t get it.

If you are currently trying to do a File|New then paste and save, what’s the difference if you do a Duplicate|Crop|Save ? There’s no pasting involved. You do realize that when you have a selection active, Image|Crop crops the image to the selection right? That’s functionally the same thing that you’re trying to do with the contents of the clipboard and File|New. Same thing, only different <grin>.

Peace,
Tony
OE
Owen_Evans
Aug 16, 2004
Sorry about that.. I read your list but all I saw was Crop | Save because I was expecting that to come back as an option because I didn’t fully explain what I was doing in my first post.

Duplicate | Crop | Save is a little different although I would still lose the selection that I had made in the process of the duplicate command so I would have to duplicate the image and stop the action to manually select the portion that I want for my final image and restart the action. That’s 2 more keystrokes than what I have now.

Let me explain what I’m doing again. I work in education and we are currently building an online math course. for certain compatablity reasons we are making all of the equations and things that cant be displayed in html as GIFs. I get a word document full of content from the writers and I have to screen-grab the document and go through it all looking for equations to cut out and save fully trimmed so that they can be added to the text withought any extra html alignment work.

I tried slowing the action down to step by step but it was still choking on the clipboard size so I changed it to open a new document with dimentions bigger than I will ever possibly need (w=1000 h=1000) and it hasn’t been choking on that.
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YrbkMgr
Aug 16, 2004
I would still lose the selection that I had made in the process of the duplicate command

I see. I didn’t test it to see if the selection would be preserved.

Then make your action do this when you have your selection:

1. Snapshot
2. Crop
3. Save As
4. Revert to Snapshot

Again, same thing, only different.

Peace,
Tony
OE
Owen_Evans
Aug 16, 2004
You’re on the ball now!! That would work perfectly..

I’m still kinda curious why PS is choking on the clipboard size in the first place though.
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YrbkMgr
Aug 16, 2004
I’m still kinda curious why PS is choking on the clipboard size in the first place though.

I’ve seen rare instances where the clipboard dimensions weren’t transferred to the new image – In your case, it’s probably what you suspected, too fast for data transfer. But that’s just a guess.

Glad you got it sorted.

Peace,
Tony

edit: By the way, be VERY careful when saving your original. By using Save As on the original, unless it’s marked as a copy, you will be changing the file name of the original even after reverting the snapshot. So just make sure you are careful when you’re "done".

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