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Batch Resize Photos in Photoshop CS3

techieDan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:53:24 +0000

Most of us who snap photos usually take those pictures on the newer cameras with bigger pixels. Though the problem is sometimes we need to crop the picture or rather resize the photos for public viewing on the Internet. Yes, one can do that one by one using Adobe Photoshop, and re-size them accordingly to one’s need. Though the problem happens is what if you wanted to resize, let’s say a thousand files?

Here’s what TechieDan will be teaching you about. Batch Re-size

Step 1

Open your Adobe Photoshop CS3 and proceed to File > Scripts > Image Processor as shown in the screen below.

Step 2

Now Select Image Processor and click it. A screen would appear.

Step 3

Here’s the desired screen to appear. Now just set the W (Width) and H (Height) respectively and the source and target location to for the batch re-size process. Voila, performance varies based on computer speed (RAM and Processor)

There are tons of other software out there that can do batch re-sizing. Adobe Photoshop is just one of the alternatives.

Opening RAW photo formats in Photoshop

techieDan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:44:53 +0000

Surprisingly those who have installed Adobe Photoshop CS4 or own this software will have no problems accessing and opening the RAW picture format file. Here’s how to do it. As a Nikon D300 user, I have browsed through the world wide web and found that one needs to download a plugin. As of date, the current up to date version is the Camera Raw 4.3.1.

An excerpt from the official Adobe Site

This new version of the Camera Raw plug-in replaces the original Camera Raw plug-in that was installed with Adobe Creative Suite 3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and 6.0 and Premiere Elements 3.0 and 4.0 software.

Support for the following camera has been added in this update. Visit the Camera Raw page for a complete list of supported cameras.

Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III

Canon PowerShot G9

Nikon D3

Nikon D300

Olympus E-3

Olympus SP-560 UZ

Panasonic DMC-L10

The Camera Raw 4.3.1 plug-in is not compatible with versions of Photoshop earlier than Photoshop CS3 or versions of Photoshop Elements earlier than Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Macintosh or Photoshop Elements 5.0 for Windows, or Premiere Elements 3.0 for Windows.

Finally a new update for the listed cameras. Nikon users have the other option of getting the Nikon Capture NX2, but it comes with a price. So if you owned an Adobe Photoshop previously, this would be the cheapest way. All one need is to DOWNLOAD the plugin (about 3.3MB) and you’re ready to go.

To get this amazing plugin, visit this page.

Merging Your Photos Using Photoshop CS3

techieDan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:09:27 +0000

You have a collection of photos and want to merge your photos together. Well, if you have a camera, and you snapped them and wanted to join them using any photo editor software to do the panaroma effect.

For now TechieDan will be teaching you how to merge photos to create a panaroma effect with simple steps using Adobe Photoshop CS3 (yes.. CS4 would roughly work the same way). A year ago, TechieDan paid a heavy price for merging the photos one by one by sticking them together and cutting and paste using Adobe Photoshop CS. With the emergence of Adobe Photoshop CS3, the process is now made simple.

Here’s the expected result.

Impressive? Here’s how to do it?

Step 1

Select Photomerge and the next screen will come up in Step 2.

Step 2

Now you can play around with it, or just set it to Auto and search for files using the Browse… button. Do not overload with too many photos or you will face a very long downtime of joining the photos together. It takes up loads of memory.

Here’s the effect after joining 6 photos together.

So you have it, the above photo was basically joined by 6 different photos. Not bad? If you a better way or any other way to do panaroma with other softwares, why not drop a comment?