Drag Transform Crop << VS >> 2 Point click

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

I have a method to crop images that helps me a lot on productivity (thounsands of images daily.

But I want to go further in the next step, avoiding dragging the Transform selection.

I have solved the creation of a fixed racio rectangle selection that then activates the TransformSelection to Crop the image (bounds).

My challenge now would be to reduce the mouse inputs at maximum:

by clicking on 2 points (upper and down). Then the script detects the second just clicked point and automatically creates my fixed racio rectangle selection uising the precise Y distance between these two points and then batch to the next image.

I wonder if the Counter tool could be used to do this...

This would remove much of the exhaustion of my arm at the end of each week because I manage to this 700 times each day.

Can someone help me?

[Michael_L_Hale]

The count tool would let you set two objects that you can later get the position from. So could the colorSampler tool or even just the path tool and those don't need the extended version of Photoshop.

But I am not clear about how the script would know what ratio to use and exactly where to draw the selection using just two points.

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

The issue to solve in first place is this:

Is it possible pause a script waiting to detect the creation of 2 count tools (or 2 colorSampler points) and continue the script without any button or window?

The racio rectangle selection I can solve it and create it using only the heigth and centering it (on transformSelection).

But I would like to discuss this on a second moment. I have done it already using all the image width or height and no a smaller selection.

[Paul Riggott]

No you can not pause a script , only stop it.

[Michael_L_Hale]

Why do you need to pause the script? I would think that you would place the two points then run the script.

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

The idea is to run it to multiple opened images (batch).

For a large ammount of daily work, to reduce 700 clicks per day is significant.

If I really can't pause a script, only stop it that's all I want to know.

That's a shame.

Adobe should think not only on perfetionist work needs but also on productivity improvement tools like this.

If I could activate some kind of script listener to react to certain behaviours of the mouse clicked tools.

[Michael_L_Hale]

You can add an event notifier to check when the count or color sampler tool is used. That event script could check the number of points and run the needed code if there are two.

So if you are only working with open images you should be able to automate this. The event notifier would listen to the count tool. When there are two count items it crops the image, saves, and closes.

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

I figure I must batch all images to create the points and then batch again another script to activate the rest.

It is a middle way of improvement but I'll try it.

Tks

[Pedro Cortez Marques · Accepted solution]

Yes!

I've made it.

Now I crop without dragging, without crop tool.

Only 4 clicks and GO!

I wonder why adobe didn't figure how much it helps users not to tired the hand too much at the end of the day.

I used the

app.activeDocument.colorSamplers.length

app.activeDocument.colorSamplers.position

to read the sanplers x,y info and the rest was maths and some work.