Portrait and Landscape actions in Photoshop

Greetings all. I have a pretty good work flow to get images from my

10D up to my website. I'm trying to improve my photoshop actions.

I'd just like to know how others handle portrait vs landscape actions

in photoshop (I have photoshop CS).

 

I have basic actions to change color space, resample to 72ppi, and

some minor changing actions to overlay layers and add copyright

info. But to change the image size, I have a different actions for

portrait and landscape views. Then I have to setup 2

different "Master" actions for each view (portrait and landscape).

To process my pictures, in photoshop browser, I choose all the

portrait views and use the "Master" protrait action to batch those

pictures. I do the same with the landscape views, but with

the "Master" landscape action.

 

Is this the way others handle portrait vs landscape views? Is there

a way in Photoshop CS to just resize without knowing if it's portrait

or landscape? It would be easier to choose all the images in

Photoshop's Browser and use a "Master" action to process all the

files weather they are portrait or landscape.

 

Thanks in advance.

You can use File->Automate->Fit Image... to resize to, say, 600x600. This will result in the longer side of the image becoming 600, regardless of orientation. The shorter side will be scaled to maintain the correct proportion.

I new it was something that simple. Thanks. My actions will be so much simpler.

you learn something new everyday... thanks, I was looking for that a long time (also doing the 2 actions thing)

<i>resample to 72ppi</i><p>

 

Why are you doing this? Assuming you are posting these to the web, the ppi is meaningless.

Jeff,<br>

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I'm changing the image resolution to 72 pixels/inch for web images. I do this through Image/Image Size and changing the Document Size resolution. Maybe I'm incorrectly using the term "Resample."

Tom - read the following page - http://www.scantips.com/no72dpi.html and then continue on to the home page - http://www.scantips.com/

 

This web site will tell all that Jeff was asking about. It's a really good resource.

Well, that makes sense.<br>

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I guess I've always stuck with 72ppi when in reality (or webality), it doesn't really matter.<br>

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An image tag only has width and height settings. It doesn't care about the resolution.<br>

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Thanks again. I didn't know I'd get 2 good answers to one question 8)<br>