Crop edges of photo by 5%

[raagav_9457]

Hi all. As i am working on the bunch of images which where originally scanned and cropped into individual images using Script.(Thanks for the script from Jazz), i was struck with the next step where i tried using an action which is as follows.

1. Select all in the image(Landscape image)

2. Transform select. Shrink the selection by 5% ,that is 95 % of the image selected.

3. Activate crop tool. Enter it to execute the crop command.

4. The action did well with the same dimensions of the image .As soon as i apllied the action to a portrait image the dimension didn't change to  landscape format hence cropping the second half of the image.

Could there be a fix for this?

    Looking for an action or script that would activate the crop command with the selection of 95% of the image from centre , pfa and with the transform selection window showing off so that we can modify the selection and once click ok the crop applies and saves the image.

Thanks.

[Stephen Marsh]

Record an action using canvas size, either relative or absolute %. Run the action via batch.

[raagav_9457]

That was a cool trick. But how will i know how much of its cropped. In some photos i may need to little more or little less. So some thing which would give us the preview before it crops could be better approach to it.

A manual touch to the area of interest.

Thanks.

[Stephen Marsh]

@raagav_9457 

well, you didn't say that it was variable in your original post. :]

Select All.

(Optionally Select > Transform Selection)

Crop tool, set the first dropdown to Selection. Adjust the crop handles.

Apply the crop.

[raagav_9457]

Hi Steph, as soon as i click selection in the drop down the option changes to ratio as shown in attachment. 

What should be the reason? PFA of the action i have saved for an image. But it doesn't do the required job for another image in landscape format. 

[Stephen Marsh]

Try disabling the interactive/modal crop step from the action and select the crop tool manually after the action creates the selection and modifies it 5%.

Another option is scripting. As an example, this script was for square cropping, however, it could be modified to use the canvas size as a start point:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-to-lock-canvas-resizing/m-p/12634...

[raagav_9457]

No that's not working for me. 

I didn't expected this to be such complicated:(