You could record an action yourself that does that. I don't know of one that already exists. -- Brian
On May 28, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a problem. We run an series of events calld PharmCamp for high school > kids all over the state every summer, to get kids interested in Pharmacy. as > part of the deal we make nice name badges for them to hang aorund their necks. > > We have mostly automated this process. We have a program that takes in the > pictures and saves them in the database, and another that will automatically > generate the badges, all this is well and good. For our students and > interviewiees, and the Tucson PharmCamp we have a photo booth setup that lets > us create the photos properly > > However, for the other events, we get photos of all kinds for this event > despite the request that they submit 'passport-like headshot photos', and an > inordinate amount of time is spent scaling and cropping. (on the last batch > there were two pdfs that were 8 ½ x 11 scans of a little wallet sized class > photo, tilted mostly sideways in one kind of cornerish part of the scan. ) > > I'm doing this in Graphic Converter, which has some nice batching > capabilities for this sort of thing, but I'd like to get a solution for the > person who's supposed to be doing this; and she has neight Graphics converter > or a Mac. She DOES have Photoshop and a very limited ability to use said tool. > > What I'd like it to be pointed to some sort of Photoshop action, macro or > even some other windows-compatible tool that will load an image, place a > constrained 3x4 vertical crop box on the image, allow her to move the box and > resize it to properly make the badge image, then click 'OK' to save the image > cropped to a 480x640 jpeg. (and so there's cropping and scaling going on at > once. It also needs to be as idiot-proofed as possible, because the person in > question, who is sweet and a nice person and I like her but, I swear she can > munkee-click her way to starting a nuclear war between us and France trying > to open her email in the morning.) > > Does anyone know where to find such a beast? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
