On Feb 28, 10:34 am, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to prepare about 100 photos for ID's and class photo composites > for our incoming students; each got their picture taken at interview > time. > > The pictures are all taken at the same distance and zoom, waist-up > shots (thankfully, last year they weren't and we refused to touch that > mess!) so what I need to do is crop them all to the same size, for > just a head shot. I'll have to change what part of the photo is > cropped each time, but I need the cropped dimensions to always be the > same. > > IS there a way to define a set clipping region or cropping box then > apply it to each photo, move it around as necessary, then crop the > photos?
This is what I would do : 1. Fire up Photoshop and Command N for new file, set it to the dimensions you want all the pics to be. Make sure the resolution is the same too (important). 2. Open the pics you want. Perhaps do them in batches not to get confused or overload memory. 3. Drag the first pic from the original to the created window using the move tool and adjust the placement at the same time. 'Save as' under the student's name. 4. Drag the next pic to the same window that was just 'Saved as' and 'Save as' the next student but this time and all subsequent times "Flatten image" to get rid of the layer beneath to keep file size down. That's it. You can add bells and whistles, eg, add a step of grabbing crop tool and sweeping the whole width of width and height of what you see and that crops the image to the frame. But maybe not needed if you have generous storage facility. Plus, this last step is suited to automation if you decide later to do it in a batch. Depending on the way you work, and your storage and ram, you can do similar to the above but forget the tedious 'save as' steps and hurry and put all the pics in the created new window. Every time you drag a pic from the originals over, you create a new layer. And you can name the layers with the students names (click on the layers pallette and the name, the text field will show). This way you get all 100 in one layered PSD! You can print each student by simply turning off all the other layers in the layers palette. Plus, if you have not quite got the student how you want, the image is still 'there' and can be adjusted later. I'd be tempted to do this! Many ways to skin this cat. 4. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
