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Plytheman location: Lawrence, Massachusetts Obey The Deer \| \|	Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help < on 9/23/2004 9:05 PM >

	is there any way to assign an action like "Resize image to 700x525" to sticky keys? Because I always have a ton of pictures to resize and i get sick of having to do so much mouse work for monotonous stuff like this. any ideas? I'm achin, I'm shakin, I'm breakin, Like Humans Do!! -Byrne

GreyKat location: Minneapolis/St Paul MN Gender: Male I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. \|	Re: Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help <Reply # 1 on 9/23/2004 9:23 PM >

	You can write a macro to do that but getting it to work and constrain size is more effort than just going in and adjusting it manually.

Plytheman location: Lawrence, Massachusetts Obey The Deer \| \|	Re: Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help <Reply # 2 on 9/23/2004 10:02 PM >

	Yeah, I know nothing about coding and stuff like that... I was hoping there was a built in way on PS to assign sticky keys or someone knew a site with something i could download... I'm achin, I'm shakin, I'm breakin, Like Humans Do!! -Byrne

Servo \|	Re: Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help <Reply # 3 on 9/23/2004 10:24 PM >

	Under the History window, there's a tab that says "Actions". Read up on it in the Help file; you can record a macro then assign it to a key without having to write any script.

:: inuk location: Burnaby BC. Gender: Male Freelance Thinking \|	Re: Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help <Reply # 4 on 9/23/2004 10:59 PM >

	I use Paint Shop Pro. Great program. Does everything Photoshop does, but without all the clutter. Think about the 80/20 rule. you use 20% of the functionality of the product to do 80% of the things you want to do. In PSP you can set up batch jobs for pretty much anything. ::

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Re: Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help
<Reply # 5 on 9/23/2004 11:13 PM >

Posted by :: inuk
I use Paint Shop Pro. Great program.

Feh, just like someone posting about using film in a thread asking a question about a digital camera, that is a pointless reply. Not to mention that yes, for $400 more dollars, Photoshop does do a lot of stuff PSP does not do.

Duke Noble Donor location: Awww-shitby, Ontario Gender: Male Move it or lose it \|	Re: Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help <Reply # 6 on 9/24/2004 3:48 AM >

	Not to nitpick, but I think this would be more suited to the photography forum. More likely to catch the attention of photoshop ninjas as well. Also, PSP is Fisher Price. I'll use Gimp before PSP if I'm not usin Photoshop Contrary to popular belief, death isn't just for dead people. I know I was surprised too! It can happen to anybody! Horses, fiddler crabs, even a potato can die! - Tick

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Re: Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help
<Reply # 7 on 9/24/2004 5:37 AM >

Gimp rules! ;)

Seriously though, for batch converting a large number of files, I always use ImageMagick. It's kind of a unixy commandline thing, but it probably runs on windows.

It's great when I have 100 images that I want to resize and I do it with a simple command and it's done in about 3 seconds. Something like

for i in *.JPG; do convert "$i" -resize 700x700 "$i"; done

would resize all .JPG images so that their largest dimension is 700 pixels (it maintains the aspect ratio but shrinks the image to fit into a 700x700 box). No painful repetitive mouse movements.

TurboZutek King Dick location: Scotland Gender: Male Giant octo-penised rapephant \| \| \|	Re: Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help <Reply # 8 on 9/24/2004 5:23 PM >

	Ah, I do the same, time consuming - isn't it ? The Windows XP powertoys (www.microsoft.com) includes a fairly handy utility that can group resize singles pictures, group pictures or in fact - entire folders full of pictures. It's not bad... For free. Chris... We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit.

:: inuk location: Burnaby BC. Gender: Male Freelance Thinking \|	Re: Photoshop Shortcuts? AKA im lazy and need help <Reply # 9 on 9/25/2004 3:57 PM >

	posted by Servo : "Feh, just like someone posting about using film in a thread asking a question about a digital camera..." I thought it was a general question about resizing pictures as there is nothing about digital in the original post. Poopdeck Pat asked for ANY ideas, so I thought I'd share mine. PSP is better for scanned 'analog' pictures, while Photoshop is reportedly better for digital pictures. As I don't have a digital camera yet, I can't confirm. And yes, if money is not an issue to you, you can likely find exactly the right program to do exactly what you want it to, the rest of us will just have to find the best we can afford. ::

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