a nest of bees in graphic design

If you are making a web site most probably you will find yourself in the position to resize lots of images…if time is short or if you just want to finish working and go playing use actions.
So at the begining you want to put all the images that you want to resize in two folders - one vertical and one horizontal (i mean portrait - v and landscape - h)

Part one - make the action

1. create a destination folder…like “done” on the desktop
2. go to photoshop and in the actions panel choose create new set (give it a name)
3. open an image (from the source folder) …or any image, it only has to be the same orientation (portrait or landscape), as the images you want to use the action on
4. return to the actions panel and push the create a new actions button
- a new window will appear with these options…

- name the action (if you are resizing the horizontal images name it like… h 450×600)
- choose a source set…if you created a new set choose that one.
- function key - it’s a shortcut for apply the action, like ctrl+v is paste (it’s good to have a function key if you have to resize several small number of images. for a large number edited all at once you will not need it)
- color - to see the action quicker on the panel use a color to highlight it
- push the record button and you can start making the first action

5. resize the image. the image is opened so rezise it using the image size and canvas size. do dot use the crop tool because you can’t tell the action where to begin and where to end.

be sure you first resize the largest size of an image in image/image size, and then go to image/canvas size and set the low size

6.save - save for web png or jpeg as you wish in the folder “done” that you’ve created earlier

7.close without saving - if it asks you if you want to save, push NO

Part two - use the action

now you can begin using the action for a batch of images
in photoshop go to file/automate/batch

- choose the set, the action, the source folder
- for the destination folder choose “none” - the action will save the images on the “done” folder
- take the images from the folder and you have finished.