Re: Photoshop question
Re: Photoshop question
- Subject: Re: Photoshop question
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:39:42 -0400
Mike,
Thanks. My version of Photoshop does have actions, and
GraphicConverter also does batch conversions. The reason I'm using
scripting is that I have to also save the thumbnail to a specific
location (varies depending on the source image location) and have to
enter the new file's name and full path into an FileMaker Pro
database. In order to do it all in one swipe I'm going to script it
rather than do conversions using actions and then move files.
I've been playing with GC a bit this afternoon and it seems to do
what I need rather quickly. I already have the FileMaker Pro and
Finder components written, so this image adjustment part is the only
thing to get sorted out. Since I don't have any other changes to make
to the images apart from scaling them, I think I'll do a hundred or
so with GC and see how it goes. Preliminary tests indicate that is
should work well, if there are no memory leaks. Photoshop seems like
overkill for this.
I did a job like this over the holidays and FileMaker Pro took a
brain fart after about 5,000 new records and refused to make a new
one without a relaunch, so if it's no worse than that this time,
it'll be okay.
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At 10:24 PM +0100 01/03/03, Michael Cytrynowicz wrote:
Bill,
I have been doing this using actions, which I believe your PS may
have if it ain't too old. Also, the "file: automate :fit image..."
allows you to batch process files and create thumbnails constrained
to a given height / width, which is quite handy. I didn't try to
write a script for it (not that I would be able to ;-) but i
actually don't think its necessary. Actions and the PS automation
are quite fast, even if you insert some a conversion to Lab followed
by some unsharpening, than back to RGB (or CMYK).
In a hurry, I use iView MediaPro to generate thumbnails for me (as
part of creating html galleries) - i love to use iView and its
really fast, but less fine tuning the thumbnails themselves.
Last but not least, another app is the very neat freeware ImageIndexer,
http://www.netmagic.net/~evan/shareware/
Hth,
Mike
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