Is there a way to BULK CROP photos NOT BULK RESIZE but BULK CROP?

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Aug 18, 2007
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Is there a way to BULK CROP photos NOT BULK RESIZE but BULK CROP?

I am in desperate need of BULK CROPPING some photos with detailed directions please.

I have over 20,000 scans that were done.
There is a large amount of "DEAD BLACK" space on the photos. I am wishing to CROP the photos without doing them one by one.

I am having a difficult time figuring out how to BULK CROPPING photos. Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.

I am NOT interested in BULK RESIZING my photos.
I am interested in BULK CROPPING photos that were scanned. I am trying to get the BLACK dead space off of thousands of scans.

I have about 10,000 scans that need to be cropped all the same DIMENSIONS. Does anyone out there know of a software program that can crop many at a time instead of manually?
Thanks

I have been told that
"I’d use Photoshop. In this program you can make a so called ‘Action’: a series of handlings, applied on one image, that you can save a Action. Later you can use those Actions in a batch process. Perhaps you can get an old version. To my knowledge the batch-option is abled from version 5."

Is this true?
If so please advise and thanks.

I simply do not have the time to crop one by one 20,000+ scans.

If someone knows how to do this, can they please email me, thanks again!

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Barrie Smart
Aug 19, 2007
Giovanni wrote:
Is there a way to BULK CROP photos NOT BULK RESIZE but BULK CROP?
I am in desperate need of BULK CROPPING some photos with detailed directions please.

I have over 20,000 scans that were done.
There is a large amount of "DEAD BLACK" space on the photos. I am wishing to CROP the photos without doing them one by one.
I am having a difficult time figuring out how to BULK CROPPING photos. Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.

I am NOT interested in BULK RESIZING my photos.
I am interested in BULK CROPPING photos that were scanned. I am trying to get the BLACK dead space off of thousands of scans.
I have about 10,000 scans that need to be cropped all the same DIMENSIONS. Does anyone out there know of a software program that can crop many at a time instead of manually?
Thanks

I have been told that
"I’d use Photoshop. In this program you can make a so called ‘Action’: a series of handlings, applied on one image, that you can save a Action. Later you can use those Actions in a batch process. Perhaps you can get an old version. To my knowledge the batch-option is abled from version 5."
Is this true?
If so please advise and thanks.

I simply do not have the time to crop one by one 20,000+ scans.
If someone knows how to do this, can they please email me, thanks again!
The "Action" option is in Photoshop 7 onwards (I think). Its an automator logging keystrokes for tasks that one might do on a regular basis. It would seem to me to provide a solution for you (and boy, I wouldn’t like to crop 20K of pictures one by one), but you’d have to ensure that all the crops were made to exactly the same area on each photo, i.e. every shot would require the EXACT same cropping. BTW automated processes are everywhere in programs, and they do work brilliantly.

Not sure if there’s a solution in AE4. It might also be worth looking on Google for an option – use the automater reference and see what you get.

Corovian

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