Can you save a set of selection marquees for use on other images?

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I have just completed making 117 proofing scans of all my old 35mm colour slides. I used an A3 flatbed scanner with a transparency lid to scan 20 slides at a time while still located in their VPD Slide-Sho storage pages. During the scanning process I tried to optimise the exposure for the images, which tended to leave the slide mounts rather dark.

I now want to make final image corrections to these 117 jpeg files in Photoshop 2020. By far the most effective method is to make two separate adjustments; one for the actual images and another for the slide mounts (the slide mounts contain a lot of useful information, including a unique ID number I stamped on each of them). This requires me to start by creating a set of 20 selection marquees for the images (some of which are in portrait mode). After applying a curves adjustment to the images I then invert the selection and do another curves adjustment for the slide mounts.

My only problem is that creating those selection marquees is a rather tedious process. I don't hold out much hope for this, but is there any way to automate the creation of a standard set of 20 marquees that can be individually repositioned and rotated?

c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted Answer

»I now want to make final image corrections to these 117 jpeg files in Photoshop 2020.«

Why did you use jpg and not a non-lossy compression?

»After applying a curves adjustment to the images«

Why don’t you use Adjustment Layers?

»is there any way to automate the creation of a standard set of 20 marquees that can be individually repositioned and rotated?«

I would recommend creating one sample Path with 20 subPathItems and creating an Action, using »Insert Path« from the Actions Panel’s dropdown menu to include the Path in the Action and using it as a vector Mask for the creation of the first Adjustment Layer.

Ro Hackett · Answer

When i make a mutiple selection like this, I always save it in the paths panel behind the layers panel

- Make selection

- Go to Paths Panel

- hit the menu button - Make Work Path

- then double click the new path to name it so it saves (workpaths dont save without being named

Then to bring that same selection back up again in future - go back into the paths panel - highlight that path and bottom of the panel press the button - load path as selection

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