Digital artists - Save multiple versions?

[iter itineris]

Hi,

I’m looking for a program (or script) that can do the following:

With a single high-res photo:
1) Automatically save several different versions
2) Automatically crop each version with it’s own specific Height and Width
3) Automatically save each version with a naming scheme (such as photo1, photo2, etc)

Does anyone know what can do this? I am currently using the Actions option in PhotoShop, but I am looking for something more automated the handle the high volume of processing.

Thanks-James

 

[transparentwarrior]

i honestly have no idea.......wish i could help though.

 

[Deamiter]

I'm pretty sure what you're looking for doesn't exist -- or at least doesn't exist in a form that would be user-friendly to ADAPT to your purposes. However, everything you want to do is pretty easily accomplished using basic C++ or really any basic computer language! I'm sorry to respond with this so late, but I would talk to one of your friends who is into computer programming, and see if they can put together a simple GUI for it. I am CERTAIN that the program could be written (with some more details on input/output requirements) and probably within a week or so by somebody who's familiar with graphical manipulation. Naming the photos would be extremely easy, cropping is POSSIBLE in a basic language, but I suspect that both the cropping and formating would be done more easily by calling up a separate program.

As a physics student with only the MOST basic computer programming skills, I'm afraid I'm not able to be of much help personally, but I do think you should look into some of your friends -- especially those currently studying computer science, as I suspect most professionals would have forgotten a lot of the basic programming needed when they specialized.

 

[utdbear]

I just download all of my pictures, whether they come off of the internet or my camera to the My Pictures folder, then if I want to edit I just open them up. When I am finished I save the copy to an Edited pictures folder. I assume you are doing this for upload to the web.

 

[eviltangerine]

Check out in Photoshop the Batch command.. File>Automate>Batch

It takes a predefined action (like you've set up) and applies it to either a folder, a list of pictures, or even the opened files, then it'll save it to any folder using a naming scheme that you determine!

This *could* be what you're looking for, but not sure if you've already explored this option.

 

[reformedthinker]

Yep thats what I use for work - The Batch Actions thing.

Check out in Photoshop the Batch command.. File>Automate>Batch

It takes a predefined action (like you've set up) and applies it to either a folder, a list of pictures, or even the opened files, then it'll save it to any folder using a naming scheme that you determine!

This *could* be what you're looking for, but not sure if you've already explored this option.