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April 16, 2024
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Reference point losing it's position when Batching

  • April 16, 2024
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Earlier, when I was working with Batch, I was able to select a reference point and anchor it in the desired position for every photo. For example, when transforming portraits, before starting the batch process, I would navigate to my actions, double-click on "Transform layer," select my reference point, and position it on the subject's eye. This allowed me to consistently transform from that specific point. However, now, even if I place the reference point where I want it to be, when I process with batch, the reference point ends up in a completely random location, often in the upper left corner of the photo or within the Photoshop application itself.

 

Please help. Is it some hidden option? It's happened overnight, I do not remeber changing any settings (but it's still an option :v) 

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Davide_Barranca12040269
Legend
April 17, 2024

It might very well be totally unrelated to your problem, but have you tried switching the Rulers to Percentage?

 

 

Davide Barranca - PS developer and authorwww.ps-scripting.com
Participant
April 17, 2024

Hello Davide, and thank you for your response. I attempted to change it to a percentage, but the issue still persists.

Here's a video illustrating the problem. Perhaps it will provide a better understanding of my situation.

Davide_Barranca12040269
Legend
April 18, 2024

Hi @Miłosz5F84 ,

I've tried to replicate it on my machine (Adobe Photoshop Version: 25.6.0 20240312.r.433 2bfcbf1 arm64), see the screencast attached—I was using pixels as the units in the rulers.

It seems to work as expected: double-clicking the Action does set the reference point back where I put it while recording it. However, in the second part of the video, you see that I'm enlarging the canvas: the action uses the measurement as absolute (referring to the whole image) and not relative to the transformed layer.

This may be a problem if the pictures you're batching have different dimensions.

 

 

Davide Barranca - PS developer and authorwww.ps-scripting.com