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Smart crop photos in Photoshop CC

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July 11, 2017
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I have downloaded a lot of pictures and need to crop them to a specific size. In Photoshop I can use the automate>fit image option.

The picture is then resized but it keeps the same aspect ratio.

I can of course crop each one of them manually and choose the best part of the pc, but that is not a good idea with thousands of pictures...

The www. cropp.me website does smart cropping and it automatically selects the best part of the picture in the correct size, without distorting it.

I assume a similar functionality is available somewhere in Photoshop, but I don't manage to find it.

Is there anyone who knows how this can be done in Photoshop CC?

Many thanks

Valere

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JJMack

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Adobe doe not provide such a feature.. You can Automate cropping to some aspect ratio and and a resize to a particular size if you want to. Scripting it would be better than using actions. However you need to be careful. Cropping means you are removing some image content. Cropping a Portrait to a landscape aspect ratio and cropping a landscape to a portrait aspect ratio does not work well for you will be cropping much of the image's content the resulting composition will not be acceptable. Print shops crop your images for the print size you order and use a centered crop according to you image orientation. Keep portraits portraits and landscapes landscapes. I wrote a Photoshop Plug-in script you can record in actions to facilitate this type of centered crop. Its part of my crafting actions package.

Crafting Actions Package UPDATED Aug 10, 2014 Added Conditional Action steps to Action Palette Tips.
Contains

Action Actions Palette Tips.txt
Action Creation Guidelines.txt
Action Dealing with Image Size.txt
Action Enhanced via Scripted Photoshop Functions.txt
CraftedActions.atn Sample Action set includes an example Watermarking action
Sample Actions.txt Photoshop CraftedActions set saved as a text file.
More then a dozen Scripts for use in actions

Example
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JJMack

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Probably not exactly what you want but the Image Processor script may be helpful, and you can add an action.

JJMack

Community Expert

Derek the image processor scripts do not have a cropping feature just a resize fit image feature processed images aspect ratio will not be changes unless you include an actions for the image image processor to use in its processing to crop the image being process. I do that with the Image processor Pro plug-in script. I create 10 folder of my images for the various display devices I have. My Actions crops for the displays aspect ratio and resize the images for the display.. The image Processor Open all my source images and save the cropped and resize images into a folder for each display. I was lucky 10 is the maximum number of image files the script can save for each processes image.

JJMack

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Katie Houghton

Inspiring

I think you are looking for a Content-Aware crop. Something maybe Adobe is working on right now. if not, you can also add it to the wish list: Feature Request/Bug Report Form

valerev45060704Author

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Hi, it is indeed content aware cropping. Thanks for the tip. I will add it to the feature requests.

many thanks

Valere

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