Straighten Tool in Action

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Colin_McDonald
May 12, 2007
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I am trying to create an action which will amongst other things, open the straighten tool, allow me to position it, then rotate arbitrary.

I need to prepare a large list of files, all of which need manual intervention, so this will automate many of the repetitive steps for me.

However I can’t make the Straighten tool open.

Can anyone help please.

Thanks

Colin
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Andrei_Doubrovski
May 13, 2007
Hi Colin,
Did you mean Straighten tool in the "Lens Correction" dialog? If so, you can add opening this dialog to your action as follows:

– Expand the Action palette’s menu and select "Insert Menu Item" – (While the "Insert Menu Item" dialog is open) pull down "Filter > Distort > Lens Correction".

However, activating the Straighten tool in the dialog window can’t be inserted the same way. So, just learn the keyboard shortcut – [A].

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Robert_Barnett
May 13, 2007
The only thing you can do is record your action and place a stop right before you want to use the measure tool, this will cause the action to stop playing. You would then use the measure tool and then go to the actions palette (it needs to be out of button mode) and then click play at the bottom of the actions palette and the action would then continue to play from the point it stopped. So if after the stop the next step was the arbitrary rotation step it would use the measurment you created during the stop.

There is no way to do this without the user’ intervention for each and every image. The stop can be added using the option on the action palettes flyout menu.

Robert
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Colin_McDonald
May 15, 2007
Robert

That is a very helpful suggestion.

I already need manual intervention on each image, as the amount of rotation required on each image will vary. What I am trying to do is minimise the keystrokes where I can as I have a hundred or so images to process.

This way will do fine. The straighten tool will as you suspect by followed by an arbitrary rotate before going on to levels etc. Once again, I need manual intervention at many of theses stages, but this way I ensure that I process the same steps with each image and in the same order.

So thanks for the help, It may not have actually opened the straighten tool for me, but at least it lets me have a dialog box telling me the reason for the stop (as there are other stops also).
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Colin_McDonald
May 15, 2007
Andrei

Thanks It is in fact the straighten tool I’m after, so thanks for the reminder on the shortcut. I hadn’t been thinking about it.

Colin

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