Ability to Give Photoshop Two Sets of Batch Resize Criteria at One Time

Report · May 07, 2024

When batch resizing currently, Photoshop can't tell if images are Landscape or Profile thus requiring images to be separated into wide and tall folders before processing each folder individually. It would be helpful if when batch processing to set a maximum width if a photo is wide and a maximum height if a photo is tall and have photoshop evaluate each and proportionally cut images down accordingly. A proportional setting is also nice to have when images are the same format but have different dimensions.

Report · May 07, 2024

@Xiva

Try this:

First write two actions: one for Landscape and one for Portrait
Then write a Conditional action (panel menu)
If Landscape, run the Landscape action
Else, run the Portrait action

Then batch with the Conditional action

Details here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/conditional-actions-creative-cloud.html

Jane

Report · May 07, 2024

There is also the possibility of recording the File > Automate > Fit Image script into a Batch Action, specifying a maximum width and height to proportionally resize the longest edge to (with an optional setting to not upscale smaller images).

Report · May 08, 2024

I have numerous scripts and actions, and I use the conditionals as @jane-e describes. Works great.

Report · May 08, 2024

@Lumigraphics Agreed but honestly all Adobe needed was a simple if or statement in their and the ability to enter two criteria at once. Scripts are great but this is a feature that when you're announcing AI, then lets use the AI in some of the less glamour but certainly as important places as well.

Report · May 08, 2024

all Adobe needed was a simple if or statement in their and the ability to enter two criteria at once.
By @Xiva on 08 May 2024

I'm confused.

Did you read my post from yesterday telling you how to create an IF (Conditional) Action? This has been in PS for about a decade or so.

Jane

Report · May 08, 2024

This is in Photoshop already.

Report · May 10, 2024

If you're just dealing with images all the same aspect ratio, some portrait and some landscape, set both the horizontal and vertical perameters in the "image processor" to the higher value. For instance. If you have a bunch of images and you want them all to be 2000 by 3000 pixels and you have mixed orientations, then set the horizontal and vertical number to 3000. This way all of your images will come out the same size - either 2000 by 3000 pixels or 3000 by 2000 pixels. Don't enter the shorter dimension at all.

I would like to see an option of producing multiple image sizes in one go in the image processor though.

Report · May 10, 2024

Again, this already exists: File > Automate > Fit Image.

Fit Image is perfect for running batches. Don't use Image Size for that.

Report · May 13, 2024

Help me out...I'm struggling to understand what I get from "fit image" that I don't from the Image Processor. Seems like I have a lot more options in the Image Processor. What am I missing?

Report · May 13, 2024

Fit image is a single command to be used as a step in a bespoke workflow. The Image Processor and Image Processor Pro scripts provide a prebuilt generic workflow.