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rajat.khandelwal
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February 8, 2019
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Auto arrange images without resizing them

  • February 8, 2019
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I have a folder with multiple images, all of them of different sizes. Some are portrait, some are landscape.

Is there any way I can automatically arrange all the images in a new document of a fixed size (let's say 60 inches width) without the images being resized? The purpose is to have a plugin to quickly and intelligently arrange the images into a new document for printing without wasting paper.

The Contact Sheet plugin resizes the images before arranging them, because it does it by rows and columns, with no option to preserve the original images sizes. The PDF Presentation automation just makes each picture huge on a single page.

Basically I'm looking for an automation that says "Photoshop, take this folder of pictures, and don't adjust their sizes, feel free to rotate them, but arrange them as compactly as possible on a single document."

Any ideas?

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2019

It would be quite a task to tile a mosaic of you image to minimize paper waste.  The more imges  you have the  biger the jigsaw  puzzle becomes. image have different sized, aspect ratios and print resilotions. A tiled document has a single print resolution.  How do you want to handle resolution  miss matches? The image size will change size if printed at a different print resolution.. I think you will find to print images at a single print resoltion you will have interpolate imeges to print then the correct size.

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    rajat.khandelwalAuthor
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    February 9, 2019

    All the images as well as the new document are already at a fixed 100dpi resolution 

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    February 9, 2019

    If they have different sizes and aspect ratios it is still a giant  jigsaw puzzle. To minimize paper waste imaged will need to be reordered sorted size size and fitted to some document size to minimize paper waste.  Not a simple task.

    My Paste Image Roll Script will tile your image into a document to minimize paper waste. However it  will resize  your images to fill a particular tile size you specify. If your image do not have the same aspect ratio as the tile has you printed image will look like a centered aspect ratio  crop. Like you get from a print lab when you order standard size print size  that do not match your images aspect ratio.  Your image files remain unchanged and the Tiled Image document Images composition can be tweaked for the images are not cropped there resize to fill the till and any excess is masked off. So you can reposition images to tweak their composition.

    You also most likely want to print your images at least a 200dpi resolution. Large Print like 6 foot image can get by printed at 100dpi.

    JJMack
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