Photoshop? Batch Processing. Help?

Lucian

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13 Jun 2012 - 11:56 AM

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I have a job this weekend and i have to supply around 300 photos on a disc saved at a size of 800 pixels on the long end at 72dpi.

I was unsure how to do this so i downloaded a few shots on to my computer to do a test batch process and the problem i have is that the portrait format photos have been cropped in to a landscape composition so are no good but the landscape ones are ok.

Is there anyway i can do this properly in 1 batch process or will i need to batch process the portrait photos seperate from the landscape ones.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

cattyal (e2 Member)

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13 Jun 2012 - 12:17 PM

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Easy Thumbnails by Fookes is another option (it will do larger pics than thumbnails)

Pete (ePHOTOzine Staff)

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13 Jun 2012 - 12:30 PM

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Quote: The facility to do this in Photoshop is Image Processor which can be found File>Scripts>Image Processor.

As far as I know you can't select the long edge to be 800px in Photoshop which is what Julian wants to do. Lightroom does, as you say, have the necessary feature.

GlennH (e2 Member)

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13 Jun 2012 - 1:33 PM

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Quote: As far as I know you can't select the long edge to be 800px in Photoshop which is what Julian wants to do. Lightroom does, as you say, have the necessary feature.

You can do it in Photoshop: just fill in 800px in both width and height boxes under 'resize to fit' (image processor).

Pete (ePHOTOzine Staff)

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13 Jun 2012 - 1:48 PM

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Quote: I hate to disagree with such an august personage as the mighy Pete. If you set both the height and width to 800px, It will constrain the longest side to 800px, and resize the other in proportion.

Lol whoops I missed that fact...thanks - I stand corrected.

Pete (ePHOTOzine Staff)

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13 Jun 2012 - 1:58 PM

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Have you tried setting 800px in height and width as suggested?

Jestertheclown

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13 Jun 2012 - 2:12 PM

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FastStone.

Do the lot in one go. You can tell it to resize based upon the length of one side only regardless of its configuration and they'll remain in the same order as before you started and retain their existing flenames.

It's surprising that sometimes a free editor can do something so simply yet Photoshop has to turn it into a huge task.

Ewanneil

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13 Jun 2012 - 7:03 PM

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Quote: It's surprising that sometimes a free editor can do something so simply yet Photoshop has to turn it into a huge task.

I'm with you on that

+1 from me too.

Although I use LR4 and PSE9 for most things I am constantly amazed at how useful FastStone is for batch functions such as re-sizing, re-naming and watermarking.