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philm51371808
Participant
September 22, 2021
Question

Creating an auto align action

  • September 22, 2021
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Hi all,

Trying to find/create an action that will load files into layers and auto align from Bridge.

Thanks,

Phil

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wanokuni
Known Participant
September 23, 2021

To be able to do this you will need two scripts;

 

1 - bridge script to process the selected images and invoke the Photoshop script.

2 - photoshop script: to load files as layers and auto align.

 

so the idea is when you have the file you one to process in photoshop selected you click in the bridge script and it will do all this automaticaly.

 

this will take some time to make,  sorry i dont have time this week to do it. maybe someone else can help.

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 22, 2021

There is Bridge menu Tools>Photoshop>Loads Files into Photoshop layers.  The image will be in a stack of Photoshop images layer and image layers can have any aspect ration and any canvas size. You may be able to program a Bridge/Photoshop script the is like Loads File into a Stack the would process the layer stack  expand the canvas and distribute the images over the canvas.  It would be difficult to support all image sizes and you could easy select image that would require a canvas size the would exceed Photoshop max canvas size.  Laying out different size images on a canvas in some organized way  may be difficult and time consuming.   This is not something Photoshop Actions can do.    A rather simple  Photoshop script can  size image  to fill a particular tile size then tile the canvas with resized tile size images.   You may be able to create a script like my PasteImageRoll Script that would get the file list from bridge talk rather then  the file selection dialog my script uses to get the list of files.  I have never created a Bridge script.

 

PasteImageRoll 

JJMack
philm51371808
Participant
September 22, 2021

Thanks JJ, I was hoping for something simple. I work interiors so my work is about blending the best from one exposure to another.  My workflow now is to use the Bridge/load files into layers and then Edit> auto align in PS. I can create an action to auto align but I can't figure out how to include the load files into layes in that action. An action will only save me a few secs but that would help. It seems like it should be simple but...

Thanks a million for your input.

 

Phil

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 22, 2021

Have you looked into 360 panorams heads for your camera and software to stitch the captured image. Video Tutorials 

 

You could try using Photoshop Photomerge with your hand held images but you will have a very hard time with room shots. You need a pano heads to do an acceptable job.

 

Photoshop Photomerg with 6 hand held outdoor image where there are no object  near the camera.

Can be used from bridge 

JJMack