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Hi, all.
I’ve started hand-cropping proofs for better results, but at high-volume my current tools are killing my productivity. Most of the time isn’t spent doing the crop, but waiting for loading & saving.
Photoshop Elements 4 has worked fine for most of my "workflow" to-date and the cropping tool is great, but slow to load & save. On average, it’s taking 25 seconds to load, crop, and save an image, which makes for a *lot* of hours per event.
With the right tool, I know this could take less than 5 seconds per proof. I’ve tried IrfanView, which is very fast to load & save files (and is tweakable for fast save / load), but its hand cropping tool is really unfriendly.
Is there a better tool out there for cropping workflow? I’m looking for something very basic, but focused:
* Set a crop ratio (e.g., 3:2) (a la PSE)
* Quickly position / rotate / size the crop box (a la PSE) * Automatically / quickly save the file after crop & load the next file from the folder (a la IrfanView)
Any ideas? Is there a way to streamline this to be fast with PSE4 or CS2? Even getting the files to pre-load / save in the background could solve the PSE4 problem, though I’m probably trying to push a consumer product too far. 🙂
Thanks,
Richard
I’ve started hand-cropping proofs for better results, but at high-volume my current tools are killing my productivity. Most of the time isn’t spent doing the crop, but waiting for loading & saving.
Photoshop Elements 4 has worked fine for most of my "workflow" to-date and the cropping tool is great, but slow to load & save. On average, it’s taking 25 seconds to load, crop, and save an image, which makes for a *lot* of hours per event.
With the right tool, I know this could take less than 5 seconds per proof. I’ve tried IrfanView, which is very fast to load & save files (and is tweakable for fast save / load), but its hand cropping tool is really unfriendly.
Is there a better tool out there for cropping workflow? I’m looking for something very basic, but focused:
* Set a crop ratio (e.g., 3:2) (a la PSE)
* Quickly position / rotate / size the crop box (a la PSE) * Automatically / quickly save the file after crop & load the next file from the folder (a la IrfanView)
Any ideas? Is there a way to streamline this to be fast with PSE4 or CS2? Even getting the files to pre-load / save in the background could solve the PSE4 problem, though I’m probably trying to push a consumer product too far. 🙂
Thanks,
Richard
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