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Creating automation/droplet for batch resizing and putting on background

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January 27, 2022
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Hello,

Could someone please help me with an automation? I routinely need to resize images to 1080x1080 on a blackbackground (with the long edge extended to 1080). I can't figure out how to automate this so that I can drop the images on a droplet, have them open, resize, and then save. Can anyone help? Doing it manually is so frustrating.

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Stephen Marsh

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First is the action, there are only 2 key steps for the resizing:

1) File > Automate > Fit Image commad 1080 x 1080 px

2) Image > Canvas Size command 1080 x 1080 px with black extension colour (presuming flattened file input)

You may also need to add a save as step if you require different settings or formats.

The Droplet settings will depend on your workflow, I am guessing that the action steps are the sticking point? More on Droplets/Batch here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/processing-batch-files.html

When recording the action, start with a larger image than 1080 px.

Stop recording after recording the fit image step.

Setup a canvas that is not 1080 x 1080 px.

Start recording again, then resize the canvas to 1080 x 1080 px, stop recording.

This is not a linear recording, you need to prime the action steps from different sized images, so that the recording and then playback works as required as a linear process on the final images.

Hope this makes sense.

If you are not working on flattened images, or a mixture of flattened and layered images then the process is different but similar.

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defaultfroo4mog86vgAuthor

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Hello! Can you explain the "This is not a linear recording, you need to prime the action steps from different sized images, so that the recording and then playback works as required as a linear process on the final images."? I have images that are all different sizes and formats...

In the past when I've tried to automate and create the droplet, when I drop an images onto the droplet, it just reopens and resizes the file I used to create the action originally. I don't know where I'm doing it wrong to where the image that I'm dropping on the droplet is the one that is batched.

Stephen Marsh

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@defaultfroo4mog86vg wrote:

In the past when I've tried to automate and create the droplet, when I drop an images onto the droplet, it just reopens and resizes the file I used to create the action originally. I don't know where I'm doing it wrong to where the image that I'm dropping on the droplet is the one that is batched.

My initial comment was on creating an action that successfully processed all images on both edges. If your recorded action has both width and height values on the canvas size step we can move on.

Your new question is about the droplet setup, which is related to but separate from the action. Are you saving in the same format and settings? Or is the output format and or settings different than the input?

Many users have setup problems with batch or droplets, however it is all explained in the following links:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/processing-batch-files.html#process_a_batch_of_files

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/processing-batch-files.html#create_a_droplet_from_an_action

If your previous actions had a save as step that recorded the image name, then you probably didn't use the checkbox to override the action save step.

P.S. It would be best to post screenshots of the action and droplet/batch setup, with the action steps fully expanded and wide enough so that all details are visible. That way we can look at specifics, rather than generalisations.

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