- Basic Cropping for Photos
- Cropping to a Specific Size
- Creating Your Own Custom Crop Tools
- Sync Settings
- Custom Sizes for Photographers
- Resizing Digital Camera Photos
- Smarter Image Upsizing (Even for Low-Res Images)
- Automated Saving and Resizing
- Resizing for Poster-Sized Prints
- Straightening Crooked Photos
- Making Your Photos Smaller (Downsizing)
- Resizing Just Parts of Your Image Using "Content-Aware" Scaling
- Conditional Actions (At Last!)
- Photoshop Killer Tips
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Automated Saving and Resizing
If you have a bunch of images that you need resized, or converted from TIFFs to JPEGs (or from PSDs to JPEGs, for that matter), then you will love the built-in Image Processor. It’s kind of hidden in a place you might not expect it (under the Scripts menu), but don’t let that throw you—this is a really handy, and really easy-to-use, totally automated tool that can save you tons of time.
Step One:
Go under the File menu, under Scripts, and choose Image Processor. By the way, if you’re working in Adobe Bridge (rather than Photoshop), you can Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on all the photos you want to apply the Image Processor to, then go under the Tools menu, under Photoshop, and choose Image Processor. That way, when the Image Processor opens, it already has those photos pegged for processing. Sweet!
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Step Two:
When the Image Processor dialog opens, the first thing you have to do is choose the folder of photos you want it to “do its thing” to by clicking on the Select Folder button, then navigating to the folder you want and clicking Choose (PC: OK). If you already have some photos open in Photoshop, you can click on the Use Open Images radio button (or if you chose Image Processor from Bridge, the Select Folder button won’t be there at all—instead it will list how many photos you have selected in Bridge). Then, in the second section, decide whether you want the new copies to be saved in the same folder or copied into a different folder. No big whoop (that’s a technical term).
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Step Three:
The third section is where the fun begins. This is where you decide how many copies of your original you’re going to wind up with, and in what format. If you turn on the checkboxes for Save as JPEG, Save as PSD, and Save as TIFF, you’re going to create three new copies of each photo. If you turn on the Resize to Fit checkboxes (and enter a size in the Width and Height fields), your copies will be resized, too (in the example shown here, I chose a small JPEG of each file, then a larger TIFF, so in my folder I’d find one small JPEG and one larger TIFF for every file in my original folder).
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Step Four:
In the fourth section, if you’ve created an action that you want applied to your copies, you can also have that happen automatically. Just turn on the Run Action checkbox, then from the pop-up menus, choose which action you want to run. If you want to automatically embed your copyright info into these copies, type your info in the Copyright Info field. Lastly, there’s a checkbox that lets you decide whether to include an ICC profile in each image or not (of course, I’m going to try to convince you to include the profile, because I included how to set up color management in Photoshop in the bonus Print chapter found on the book’s companion webpage). Click the Run button, sit back, and let it “do its thing,” and before you know it, you’ll have nice, clean copies aplenty.
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