PHOTOSHOP QUESTION...Using an Action to Crop IMAGES...
 

I am trying to create an action to crop out 150X150 images but it keeps making a tiny image in the top left corner of a 150x150 white box. I need to know how to do the crop when I am recording the action. I would like it to crop somewhat centered.

Appreciate any advice

THX- :thumbsup

I do 2 actions to do that.
First action resizes the smallest side to the size I am aiming for (your case 150), then have it place the crop "box"(150x150) on the pic.
From there I manually move the crop "box" to my desired position.
Second action is just a crop and save then close the pic.
This is the only way I have found to get a crop that I want from each pic.
kind of a pain but worth it.

yeah that's the same thing i do. Set smaller side to dimensions then douplicate layer and then change canvas size to final dimensions. stop recording then manually center the cropping.

I don't think it's possible to set an action to auto crop. You may want to look and see if a plugin does it though.

what a pain in the ass...can't seem to get it to work

:(

NEXT QUESTION......when I do a resize action on pics from two different cameras, it only works on the ones from the same camera as the original pic used during recording.

anyone know why?

did you get the cropping to work?

not really, just doing it one by one right now-

you can, problem is it will crop that same area on every pic, so sometimes that doesn't work so well

there really is no solution to this - if u want great thumbs u need to hand crop each one - or take a good look at the set and divide them up into groups where a common crop position looks good.

it's why i would never use any CMS that does the creation of thumbnails automagically - u wind up with shitty looking thumbs.

Arles is pretty good - u can set it up to auto crop but it allows you to move the crop to a better position on a pic by pic basis for those pics u can see are gonna be bad, like a head chopped off.

First set the constraints to 150
File>Automate>Fit Image

Then resize the canvas to the center anchor at 150
Image>Canvas Size

You will then have all your images exactly 150x150 - only problem is that if the chick is off to one of the 4 sides your crop may look iffy - but this will work for most images and sounds to me like what you are looking for.

thanks man, sounds like it should work--appreciate the help :thumbsup