Distorted vertical photos in Scenarist

[Talayero]

Hi,

Is there a way or a program to resize at the same time a lot of vertical pictures?

I imported a lot of them in scenarist because I wanted to include them in one of my dvds.
The ones that have Width: 682 and Height: 1024, that's to say, the vertical ones, are distorted. I've already made all the navigation work and would like to find a way to solve the problem without redoing the work.

Anyway, I found out that if I copy one vertical picture in a new canvas (with Photoshop, for instance) with Width: 1024 and Height:1538 and save it as a new picture then that distortion problem disappears.

The question is: In order to resize them, do I have to copy and paste one by one the 400 vertical pictures that I have in that project?

Thanks in advance.

[setarip_old]

The ancient "Graphic Workshop Professional - by Alchemy" allows you to batch resize...

[Talayero]

Thanks.

I've just tested it and it seems to be a very good program. You can work with many pictures at the same time.

Anyway I think I'll have to give it up because I can't find a way to fit a vertical picture in the size of an horizontal one without the copy and paste procedure.
I mean with that program you can resize a vertical image but you can not give it the format of an horizontal one, or at least I don't now how to do it.

[setarip_old]

The ones that have Width: 682 and Height: 1024, that's to say, the vertical ones, are distorted... I found out that if I copy one vertical picture in a new canvas (with Photoshop, for instance) with Width: 1024 and Height:1538 and save it as a new picture then that distortion problem disappears.I mean with that program you can resize a vertical image but you can not give it the format of an horizontal oneThese two of your statements appear to be contradictory. Please explain why, if simply changing from Width: 682 and Height: 1024 to Width: 1024 and Height:1538 solved your distortion problem for one picture, it doesn't solve your problem for converting all of your pictures to Width: 682 and Height: 1024 to Width: 1024 and Height:1538?

[Talayero]

First of all, I wrote it wrong. The change must be done to Widht:1538 Height:1024.

The thing is that If I open one vertical image (Width: 682 Height:1024) in Photoshop and change the CANVAS SIZE (not the image size) to Widht:1538 Height:1024, then I save it and the result image when imported in Scenarist shows very good. But that must be done image by image. A lot of work.

With Graphic Workshop you don't have an option to change the canvas size, only the image size, and that's why if I rescale the image to 1538 x 1024 it distorts it immediately.

One good thing would be to find a program that allows a batch change of canvas size.

Or may be there's another solution for avoiding that problem with vertical pictures. I don't know. For the moment, changing the canvas size it works.

[setarip_old]

I'm not sure that this will help resolve your problem, but it appears that there is scripting/automating possible (using a plug-in) with Photoshop:

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/327286.html

Please let me know if this helps

[welshbird]

You can avoid using plugins in photoshop by creating an action to change canvas size then using the batch command in the file menu to affect the images

[PhillipWyllie]

You can record your history and play it back again in Photoshop( CS2?).

[Talayero]

Thank you all. It works.

The thing is yesterday I invested a couple of hours with Photoshop CS2 trying to make the batch action to work. Without success. I don't know well the program and after reading the part of the batch processing in the Help File I got stuck when it says "if you don't see your action you may need to load a different set in the palette". After that sentence they could at least give a hint of how can you do that. For instance: "see how to create a new action". But they say nothing more about it.

Obviously, for taking the most of that program you need helpful people who give you advice.

Thank you.

[setarip_old]

@Talayero

Which method did you successfully use?

[Talayero]

In Photoshop CS2 I went to the Window Actions and created a new action with the following steps: opening one of the vertical pictures, changing its canvas (in order to make it horizontal) and saving the new image. Then, with that action already recorded, I went to File Automate Batch, chose that new action and applied on the folder where I have my 400 vertical pictures. In less than half of a minute I had all of them converted.

[setarip_old]

Thanks for sharing that information!
Batch processing sure makes things a lot easier ;>}