Do the drill bits have clean and solid white space around them to start with?
If so, after you straighten them, you can run Trim to crop out the white space. This will make the width of the image cropped right up against the shank, give or take some anti-aliased pixels. Then resize to .375 wide (assuming they’re all the same resolution). Then add white canvas space to add the border.
Every step except the straightening can be done with an Action.
Carl.
Carl-
95% plus are probably clean. I haven’t looked at all the photos yet. I just got them back from the photographer. There may be a spec of dust in some but the tools were shot on a piece of clear plexiglass with a white drop several feet below it to eliminate any shadows.
Elaine
Hopefully it will work. Trim needs a background that’s 100% clean to work properly. No dust, shadings, or anything.
Thanks Carl. I will try it tomorrow morning. I have to switch to a different project. I have never used the action pallet in PS but from what I read, it look easy. Thanks again.
Elaine
I have never used the action pallet in PS but from what I read, it look easy.
Until you get the action the way you want it, always work on a duplicate folder of the original files (especially if you’ve done other post-processing to clean up a few backgrounds, etc).
The action worked great except for adding area around the image. After applying "trim", I wanted to add the same amount of space to all four sides of the canvas. I should mention that the photos are not all the same height. The width of every photo is .375 but the heights vary depending on the product. I had gone in and just increase the pixels by 30 to the height and width. I see where it thinks the dimensions here are to be applied to the other images. Is there a way to add a percent or a set pixel size to have equal canvas space added around the image?
Elaine
Make sure the "relative" box is checked in the canvas size dialog box. This allows you to all (or remove) a certain amount of canvas regardless of the size or your image.
This was working fine and dandy UNTIL Photoshop decided to stall out. I worked Friday all day with the action script and it worked fine. Today, when I launch PS go to open and select image to be opened and the spinning ball of death occurs. I threw away the preferences, made sure there were no updates and restarted. It continues to go into not responding mode. I left my software at home but I am planning on reinstalling PS unless some one else has a better idea.
I am using a G4 10.4.8, 1G memory, 33G available space, ID CS2.
Thanks
I don’t know how big your files are but 33GB of HD space is not much and neither is 1GB RAM. All the spinning beach ball means is that the computer is writing SWAP and Scratch files. If your scratch disk is on the startup disk then Photoshop has to share read/write heads with the system, this slows things down and will cause the SBBOD to appear.
Buko-
The file is only 1.4MG in Photoshop. I am only running Safari 2.0.4, Extensis Suitcase 11.0.4, and Microsoft Entourage 11.3.3 at the same time. I would say this is very little happening.
I get the message "Photoshop not responding" in the force quite application window. Are you thinking it is not really stuck but writing the SWAP Scratch files?
For others who run into this…
I did not need to reinstall Photoshop. I called Adobe and they suggested that I remove a cd that is in the hard drive. That fixed it. Even though I hadn’t opened any of the data on the cd, apparently Bridge was accessing the cd causing the problem.
Thanks everyone.
