Automatic formatting of digital comp images

[Theo Dibbits]

I have now emailed all the members who are in my adress book with the photoshop actions to automatically format images which are to be used for our digital competitions.

I do not have the email adresses for many of the newer members.
If you have not received an email let me have your email adress by PM

Any questions just post them here.

Theo

[Paul Jones]

Thanks Theo. This will be very useful to many of our members.

[bartsim]

theo
what about elements can we do it on there , any help is more than welcome

barry

[Theo Dibbits]

Barry

Unfortunately Elements does not have the action functionality but here is the recipe.
As with baking a cake follow it to the letter and you will be OK.

First crop the image the way you want it to look without formatting it at the same time. i.e. select the crop tool and hit the clear button at the top of the screen before cropping.
Next go to Image/image size (on the menu bar) and set the resolution to 72 dpi.
Make sure that the pixel dimensions is set to pixels and not percentage.
Now change the width to 1400 pixels
If the height is less then 1050 pixels hit OK otherwise change it to 1050 pixels (the width will change to something less then 1400)
Hit OK

If you want to put a keyline around the image do: Select/All (or Ctrl + A)
Edit/stroke
Set width to 4 px, and inside (you can select any colour but be careful judges are not too keen on rainbow effects)
hit OK
Press Ctrl + D to get rid of the marching ants (or select/deselect)

Next make sure that the background colour is set to black. (its the back one of the two squares on the tool pallet where you found the crop tool)
Go to: Image/canvas size Change the width/height dimensions to pixels
By default the anchor will be in the centre. Leave it there.
Change the dimensions so you have 1400 px width and 1050 px height.
Hit OK

Sharpen and save As

Job done

You now have your image on a black background with a keyline if desired.


Any questions just ask.

Theo