John Stafford wrote:
On 5/26/09 9:18 AM, in article
1j0bzr8.1iw67a212d3beoN%, "Johan W. Elzenga"
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John Joseph wrote:
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I’m familiar with the basic concept of cropping and resizing images.
I’m just wondering, if there is an easy way to take an image (eg http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2529/testvqt.jpg 585px by 390px) and crop/resize it to 200px x 100px?
Is it pretty much trail and error until I find a resulting image that I like, or is there a quick methodical way to do this without losing detail?
File – Automate – Fit Image
Enter 200 into each of the two boxes
You can run it in batch against a whole folder.
Output to a different folder to keep from destroying the originals.
That will only do half of the required work. 585 x 390 is not the same aspect ratio as 200 x 100, so ‘Fit Image’ at 200 pixels will not give you a 200 x 100 pixels image. It will be 200 x 133 pixels. So the next step should be ‘Canvas Size’ to crop that 133 pixels heigth to 100 pixels heigth.
I know. I figured he wanted it quick ‘n dirty, or for the sake of simplicity would accept the outcome regardless (as in close-enough considering the problem below.)
I know there are programs design for this specipic, and many graphic viewers and editors also have the option. But I just can’t figure out why someone wants to batch cropping to specific size. This is what I have in mind.
– Cropping is one of the advanced technique of photography and I don’t think any professional photographer want to mess up his/her work by the auto-cropping.
– That’s about it! I was thinking about reducing the size for web page but reducing is completely different than cropping.
Second answer – the marquee can be saved as an action and invoked with a stop or keystroke – but that presumes the crop will be in the same place every time.
This is one of the points I am looking at. And that’s why I mention above that cropping is an advanced skill of a photography, and batch cropping is pretty much mean selecting/removing the exact same area.