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Anonymous

Question

Tile vertically but a bit different

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
February 19, 2011
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I run an action which zooms out two times then goes to a previous document, ror 4 documents the last step is a Insert Menu Item (Tile Vertically) and what I get is this:

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1HkD8HTcb54umwVOUCLoUpWC4hVY1

but I would like to have it like this:

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1STF2vUiQX4zIhrZ4glWEjPRe0LxG

This was done by manually dragging the borders inwards and up and down.

My question is: Can this be automated?

Actions and scripting

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Michael_L_Hale

Inspiring

I think the best you will be able to do with actions or scripts is to make sure 'Zoom Resizes Windows' is checked in preferences. At the end of you current action add a zoom out then zoom in step. Select the next doc( ctrl-tab) and repeat the zoom steps. Repeat next and zoom twice more. Now your four documents will be in windows without extra space. But they will be aligned to the left instead of centered as they where.

As far as I know the only way have full control over where the image are on the screen is to use Mark's suggestion and combine them in one document where you can contorl the placement in the document then show that doc full screen.

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Macro_Details

Known Participant

I have the action now running very well. Two Zoom outs-Previous Document again Zoom outs finally tile and then again Zoom out then Zoom In.

Works fine sofar even when mixed with documents in portrait and Landscape mode.

The reason I am doing all this is to give the customer a choice and hopefully to upsell and sell two or more prints.

Will give it a try with Mark's Suggestion.

Thanks for your help.

JJMack

Community Expert

You should put this in the Photoshop Windows or Mac forum where actions are discussed. Did you set your CS3 General Preference to zoom changes windows size? That may get you what you want... However when you upgrade from CS3 you'll find that Adob changed Photoshop User interface remove at least one view user interface and added tabed editing which changes the whole tile aranging feature in a way you can not do what you want.

JJMack

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Anonymous

Thanks for answering. Yes I have the preferences set to Zoom Resizes Window. I guess that you are right in that it can not be done since I also tried it on another machine with CS4.

I am very good with writing actions but was thinking that a script could do it. As I sayd it tiles the only problem it shows that gray area around the document.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

To Muppet Mark.

Tried your suggestion it looks nice but there is an inconvenience. To past the backgrounds I must flatten or merge visible and by doing so I loose the layers which I almost always need in tact because very often I have to change the slogans which are premade I I hide and show them how needed. Also I have some actions which change the styles of the text layers. I wrote an action to print first selecting the desired picture then Ctrl+A-Ctrl+C=Close no save-Ctrl+N then Ctrl+V and ready to print but as I sayd no layers. I think I can get along with what I have so far.

The tiling with zoom in and out works best and I can drag them in place very fast to make it look nice.

Tried your script but it shows only a black background with an emty white cutout then goes back to the main stacked documents. I am on Windows. Will see if I can find out the problem.

To past the backgrounds I must flatten or merge visible and by doing so I loose the layers which I almost always need

You could place the images as Smart Objects and maintain their layers intact within the SOs … though this may complicate the use of Actions.

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