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April 4, 2025
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Make all portraits the same size in the frame automatically

  • April 4, 2025
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With all the new cool AI stuff that Photoshop is doing I was wondering if there is a way to automate the process of framing a bunch of portraits. I often have to do this when we do corporate or school portraits. We usually take a larger image that shows the majority of the torso and then crop in on them. The issue is that we want everyone to have more or less the same head size and smaller people are sometimes smaller in the frame (especially with kids of different ages). 

 

My usual way of doing this is to open the "Guide Image" in PS and put in guide lines over it. Then I add in all the images into layers and adjust them in the frame so the heads fit in the guides. It works but it is very manual and time consuming.

 

I saw in an older post that someone linked to this: https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/103952. It shows what I want to do but it has really bad reviews:

 

Does anyone know if there is a way to do this natively in photoshop or even if there is a plugin that works? 

 

If not, is there any way to semi automate the process?

 

 

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c.pfaffenbichler
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April 6, 2025
Bojan Živković11378569
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April 4, 2025

From what I can see, the publisher offers a free trial, so go ahead and try it out. Don't pay too much attention to the reviews on Adobe Exchange; for some reason, most publishers, including myself, have received poor reviews. I won't discuss that further.

Inspiring
April 4, 2025

Pixnub does what you ask, they are very powerful uxp plugins, You can download the plugin in demo version to see if it works for you, What you need is face crop, but pixnub has a lot of plugins, take a look and see if you are interested in anything else. Here is the tutorial page.

 

https://pixnub.com/face-crop-tutorials/

 

Here is the download page

https://pixnub.com/software-downloads/