advanded batch resize

[theduck]

Hello

Ive been using photoshop for a long time, and am familiar with batch processing. I have over 500 photos that I need to resize. Some are very tall and some are wide. Is there a way to make photoshop resize a image depending on what its aspect ratio is?

If I make an action with image size I can set width to 300px, which works fine for wide images. The tall images though are still to tall.

If I do the same thing but instead specify height then alot of my images will be to wide.

If I specify both height and width then my proportions will get messed up.

Any ideas? I have to do this alot, and with ever increase number of images. Im sure someone else has solved this problem before. Thanks for your help.

Richie

[Kevin Connery]

You could write a script to check orientation (or take one of the freebies from the Adobe site), but that's overkill.

In File > Automate there's a Fit Image command. That lets you set the maximum height and/or width. If, for example, you want to make the images no bigger than, 600 pixels on the long dimension, you'd set 600 and 600 for height and width. If you're willing to accept wider than taller (for web use, where most displays are wider than tall), you could use, say, 750 wide and 500 tall.

Aspect ratio/proportions stay the same.

[swanseamale47]

Try Easy thumbnail (freeware) http://www.fookes.com/ it will do what you want. Wayne





You could write a script to check orientation (or take one of the freebies from the Adobe site), but that's overkill.

In File > Automate there's a Fit Image command. That lets you set the maximum height and/or width. If, for example, you want to make the images no bigger than, 600 pixels on the long dimension, you'd set 600 and 600 for height and width. If you're willing to accept wider than taller (for web use, where most displays are wider than tall), you could use, say, 750 wide and 500 tall.

Aspect ratio/proportions stay the same.

[theduck]

Thanks Sir Kevin

Thats just what I needed. I never knew that fit image was there. You made life a lot simpler for me. Thanks again.

Richie