Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject: automate cropping
Hi all,
I have a simple question about photoshop's capabilities.
I have a one-time project of scanning hundreds of slides off a flatbed scanner and I'd like to automate what's possible. I've been filling the scanner surface with slides and scanning them into photoshop and I've found the scan and crop feature that does a good job separating the slides on the large scanned image into separate images. But, this would go a lot faster if I could automate the last step. Ideally I could just scan in a large number of images each consisting of many different slide images, and I could have photoshop process the files, producing the smaller images.
I feel helpless without a command line interface, though. Does photoshop have a scripting language? I'm only using photoshop for this one purpose so I'd rather not learn it unless it's based on a common language. Any suggestions to my specific file processing question, or how I'm going about the entire process, would be much appreciated...Happy Holiday!
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Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:44 am Post subject: Re: automate cropping
hi,
first i am a novice,
and hopefully some will come along who has alot more expereience than me.....
1. first, most good scanner software will have feature to automatically detect the multibles pictures in the scan and make each picture a seperate file whey you save the scan .... it seems like that what your looking for... so check your scanning software (not photoshop) it configurations and see if your does and if so you set it up....
2. now as far as photoshop..... scripting ps cs and above yo can do scripting....!! never used it myself... but these 2 links should helps you in that regard...
3. something else to look at and that is create a action!! and then use your batch processing feature.... that may work also....
like i said just a novice and hopefully some one with more expereience comes along.... but hopefully this will get you started...
jason_farnon wrote:
Hi all,
I have a simple question about photoshop's capabilities.
I have a one-time project of scanning hundreds of slides off a flatbed scanner and I'd like to automate what's possible. I've been filling the scanner surface with slides and scanning them into photoshop and I've found the scan and crop feature that does a good job separating the slides on the large scanned image into separate images. But, this would go a lot faster if I could automate the last step. Ideally I could just scan in a large number of images each consisting of many different slide images, and I could have photoshop process the files, producing the smaller images.
I feel helpless without a command line interface, though. Does photoshop have a scripting language? I'm only using photoshop for this one purpose so I'd rather not learn it unless it's based on a common language. Any suggestions to my specific file processing question, or how I'm going about the entire process, would be much appreciated...Happy Holiday!
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