Crop and Straighten Photos - file naming

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February 5, 2020
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I am using the Automate > Crop and Straighten Photos on a file with multiple scanned photos in it. Photoshop is beautifully creating 2 or more files with the separated photos in them. The only problem is that the first one has the suffix 'copy' and then the rest 'copy 2', 'copy 3' etc. When sorted in the windows file system, 'copy' comes last and I want it first, so that the ordering of the images matches my original scan. Is there any way to name this first copy 'copy 1'?

Thanks.

How to

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Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

It appears that CC2020 does not like the code to run the Crop and Straighten Photos plugin generated in CC2019...

The expedient appraoch is to simply remove the first block of code from my previous script, so that you are left with this as the final code:

var docName = app.activeDocument.name;
var origDoc = app.activeDocument;
origDoc.duplicate(docName + ' 1');
origDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

Then create an action and insert the Crop and Straighten Photos menu command into the action. Then record the playback of the script into the action (either as an installed or browsed script):

Then run the combined call of the plugin and the script from the combined 2-step action as illustrated above.

Keep in mind that it is only the FIRST file generated from Crop and Straighten Photos that will be renamed, if you have 11 images on the scan you will get something like this:

scan copy 1

scan copy 2

scan copy 3

scan copy 4

scan copy 5

scan copy 6

scan copy 7

scan copy 8

scan copy 9

scan copy 10

scan copy 11

Not having leading zero padding before the single digits may make the sorting incorrect for digits 1-9?

So you may still need to do a Bridge Batch Rename to sort the mess later anyway...

M

maryw6825379Author

Participant

Thanks so much Stephen. That worked perfectly & will make my task so much easier 🙂 I won't have more than 9 photos in a file so the lack of zero padding will not be an issue.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Try this script:

//community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/crop-and-straighten-photos-file-naming/m-p/10904015
// Add ' 1' to first doc created by Crop and Straighten Photos

#target photoshop

CropPhotosAuto();
function CropPhotosAuto() {
	var s2t = function (s) {
		return app.stringIDToTypeID(s);
	};
	executeAction( s2t( "CropPhotosAuto0001" ), undefined, DialogModes.NO );
}

var docName = app.activeDocument.name;
var origDoc = app.activeDocument;
origDoc.duplicate(docName + ' 1');
origDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html