Pauline

I am a new user and was trying to apply "Besharah" posting on 1st April. Was impressed by LeMort's tutorial on Actions and Gaussians lengthy help on the subject.

I would like to know if it is possible to Crop multiple photos to 7"x5" - landscape and portrait.
I tried it with recording an Action first... but I need to be able to move the cropping marquee for each individual photo.
Is there a way of using an Action then the Batch or Droplet but still be able to move the marquee after the Crop command has been applied to multiple photos?

What I have in my mind (and don't know if it is possible) Put photos in a file for the Landscape 7x5 crop and another file for Portrait 5x7 crop. (Do I put these in Batches or Droplets)
Then perform the Action of the Crop - BUT have control of where the position of the Crop is for each individual photo.
Thanks for any help in advance

Gaussian

Yes, for that you need to toogle the dialog box on, by clicking inside the area marked in the screenshot, which currently shows the dialog box turned on.

I would suggest to browse the photos with Photoshop bridge, the old Photoshop file browser or any other image browser and select all the images that are landscape and put them in a different folder. You then write two actions, one with a 7x5 crop and a 5x7 crop with the dialog boxes turned on and apply them to the appropriate folder. Whether you use a batch or droplet is all up to you, the only difference is that a batch needs to know beforehand what the source is, when a droplet can be applied to any random source file(s).

Pauline

Thank you so much for that. I did not know about turning that box on and off in Actions. That does the job I am looking for.
With regards to the droplets and batches, not going to worry about that at this stage as I don't really know what they are about.
Thanks again Gaussian.