Resize layer to fit another slightly larger layer

[EvilMadness]

So I've had this problem for a long while and I've never thought about asking about it until now. I'm editing images one after the other and they get bigger over time like in a GIF or video were the camera zooms in and I have edited the first one which is smaller then the others, but I want to add those effects to the other images/layers which get slightly larger over time in the next images that follow. Is their a way to resize my original image or in this case a layer to fix over the over the next images without me having to try and manually fit them myself. Is their some way photoshop can automatically fit a layer over another one and resize my layer so I get it exactly resized 🤔? 

[S_Gans]

From what I can grasp of your question, it appears an action might do what you want. You may want to create a new action, that duplicates your layer, then resizes it by percentage, then ensures to align to center. You can run that manually as many times as you want, or you can have it repeat any number of times.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-actions.html

(note: I'd always work largest to smallest to ensure avoiding pixellation)

[EvilMadness]

Thank you for your reply I'll try this and report back!

[JJMack]

If the two images  do not have the same aspect ratio and you resize to the exact size the image that is resized will be distorted during the resize process. You need to be careful and crop it you do not want distortion. Menu Edit>Content Aware Scale may produce acceptable results if there is an aspect ratio mismatch between images. However, I do not believe you will be able to record an action to do the resize the Action would need to use logic to figure out what resize  setting need to be used.  Action steps are recorded with setting recorder for each step.  They do not change with layer sizes and document sizes the steps have recorded setting set when the step was recorded. Steps can be made iinteractive but then the action can not be batched because the action is interactive.  If you know Photoshop Scripting the process could be automated.

[EvilMadness]

Hello thanks for the reply when I manually edit one image after another the exact resize is not flush and if you go in a roll previewing one image after another doing the edit resize manually something will be off. That's why I'm asking if somehow I can get photoshop to "auto scale" the layers I want to enlarge slightly to fit the next image if that makes sense in order to exactly match the next slightly larger image or well enough that it looks good or perhaps I could edit the image some after photoshop gets it well enough for me to work with it. Also I know about images losing quality after resizing 🙂.

[D Fosse]

Scaling the actual image sounds like a terrible idea. I'd avoid that.

What kind of effects/adjustments? Adjustment layers can simply be dragged over. If you have masks, they can be scaled with a lot less destruction to the image.

Today it's possible to do almost anything in Photoshop without touching the actual base pixels. Smart objects, for instance, keep a pristine embedded copy of the original no matter what you do to it.

[JJMack]

In general it does not make sense for images can have different scales and aspect ratio. A close up macro, a portrait, a landscape, a wide panorama, a tall skyscrapers. In general images will have different scales and aspect ratio. What you want to does not make sense in general.

However, you may have a particular case where you know something about the images content and scale.  With information like that you may be able to automate some process that will do the resize you want to do. If  an image has different scales you may be able to scale one image content to match the scale of the other image content and be able to handle aspect ratio mismatches. Canvas may need to be added or some content may need to be cropped off.  

If you have a logical way you consistently use to do the resize manually. You may be able to automate that process in a Photoshop script.