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Is there software that will automatically pad JPGs of odd dimensions so I can print to 4x6 format without losing image area?
| Neat. Sounds exactly like what I need.
| | Are you the author? | Yes. I've been writing shareware for years but this one was mainly designed for my photographer lady friend. She was going on trips and then spending weeks trying to crop hundreds of photos by hand in PSP. So the program was designed to provide auto cropping and resizing. Operations can be done on a folder or file. With a single file the cropping rectangle can be dragged to easily get the best section of the image. If you or anyone else decides to try the program I'd be happy to hear criticisms, suggestions, or requests. I occasionally update these things when it seems worthwhile and would consider making any changes that seem like they'd be of value to a number of people. (I actually made a change not long ago because someone was making a video collage of photos and wanted to be able to crop to a 16:9 ratio. Up to that point I had provided only several typical ratios: 4x6, 5x8, etc. But I realized it would be simple to also add a custom option to set any ratio.) |
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Is there software that will automatically pad JPGs of odd dimensions so I can print to 4x6 format without losing image area?
"Wally" wrote in message ... On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:24:40 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:53:34 -0700, Wally wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:35:55 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:27:40 -0700, Wally wrote: I have a couple hundred JPG files of different aspect ratios. Hardly any two are alike in dimension. Mostly they are approx 4:5, but that is rough. They were just cropped over the years for best display on the screen. Now I want to make prints of them, and the prints need to be 4x6 inch because that is the standard and cheapest, and will fit into the most common albums. The places that print JPGs allow me to crop the pics to fit 4x6, but in most cases that will crop picture area that I don't want to lose. Instead I would like the whole file printed, leaving white margins (or some other color) on either side. But those places won't allow me to do that. I can go into software and edit the pic to do this, leaving nice gray margins on either side. But it's not practical to do a couple hundred like this. Irfanview supports batch jobs, and allows setting the canvas size to a desired size in pixels. But that won't work for me, because the original files don't have consistent dimensions. Paint Shop Pro seems to be similar - I can set the required dimensions in pixels or in length units, but that won't work if the origs have many different sizes. Paint Shop Pro will do what you want and let you print to either a printer or a file. How? Here is a scan of a 6" x 4" test print I happened to have lying around. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/31088803/Image1.jpg I presume that this is the sort of thing you want. The length of the panoramic image has been fitted to the paper and the top and bottom has been padded with white space. If the image was taller than it was wide then the top and bottom of the image would be fitted to the paper and it would be the sides that were padded. OK, it looks good. Will have to give it a try. But I gotta admit that JS PhotoPrep sounds exactly right and real simple too. I agree, and at $15 US it's a lot cheaper than PR Genuine Fractals. I thought it seems what you are looking for. |
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Is there software that will automatically pad JPGs of odd dimensions so I can print to 4x6 format without losing image area?
Rob wrote:
On 28/11/2012 9:48 AM, Floyd L. Davidson wrote: Wally wrote: I have a couple hundred JPG files of different aspect ratios. Hardly any two are alike in dimension. Mostly they are approx 4:5, but that is rough. They were just cropped over the years for best display on the screen. Now I want to make prints of them, and the prints need to be 4x6 inch because that is the standard and cheapest, and will fit into the most common albums. ... So I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions on how I can run a few hundred pics through a software that only pads the pic with blank areas to achieve an aspect ratio of 2:3. That is a relatively simple task using ImageMagick tools... if of course you are familiar with them and with writing batch files. I did do this through a Photoshop action when when I was making heaps of flash presentations. The image was placed on a black background, and made to fit. Had one action for Vertical and another Horizontal images. Batched whole folders. I do it with a shell script on Linux. It uses /exiftool/ to determine the orientation of an image, and adds an option to the /convert/ command to first rotate the image if necessary, then resample, and then add the back ground. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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Is there software that will automatically pad JPGs of odddimensions so I can print to 4x6 format without losing image area?
Wally wrote:
I have a couple hundred JPG files of different aspect ratios. Hardly any two are alike in dimension. Mostly they are approx 4:5, but that is rough. They were just cropped over the years for best display on the screen. Now I want to make prints of them, and the prints need to be 4x6 inch because that is the standard and cheapest, and will fit into the most common albums. You could consider making an album not by sticking photos in it, but by having the *pages* (containing the images) printed (or even better, chemically developed like real photos) and then bound to a book --- presto, an album and you can keep all the irregular dimensions. Instead I would like the whole file printed, leaving white margins (or some other color) on either side. But those places won't allow me to do that. imagemagick. It's made for batch processing of images of all kinds. (And it's open source, so you can download it, use it and even improve it as you like.) You'll need to read the manual to find the right options and sequence of commands, but someone will have had a similar problem before, so it's likely you can find an example on the web that you can adapt. One way would be to resize (keeping aspect ratio) the image to 1200x1800 max (300dpi for 4x6 inch), then extend to 1200x1800 around the image. (untested convert original.jpg -resize 1200x1800 -gravity center -background darkgrey -extend 1200x1800 resized.jpg Now make a loop over all your jpegs, creating the resized jpeg in another directory ... -Wolfgang |
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Is there software that will automatically pad JPGs of odd dimensions so I can print to 4x6 format without losing image area?
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:27:40 -0700, Wally
wrote: I have a couple hundred JPG files of different aspect ratios. Hardly any two are alike in dimension. Mostly they are approx 4:5, but that is rough. They were just cropped over the years for best display on the screen. Now I want to make prints of them, and the prints need to be 4x6 inch because that is the standard and cheapest, and will fit into the most common albums. The places that print JPGs allow me to crop the pics to fit 4x6, but in most cases that will crop picture area that I don't want to lose. Instead I would like the whole file printed, leaving white margins (or some other color) on either side. But those places won't allow me to do that. I can go into software and edit the pic to do this, leaving nice gray margins on either side. But it's not practical to do a couple hundred like this. Irfanview supports batch jobs, and allows setting the canvas size to a desired size in pixels. But that won't work for me, because the original files don't have consistent dimensions. Paint Shop Pro seems to be similar - I can set the required dimensions in pixels or in length units, but that won't work if the origs have many different sizes. So I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions on how I can run a few hundred pics through a software that only pads the pic with blank areas to achieve an aspect ratio of 2:3. Wally Depending on the photo you may want to select the area that is cropped because auto-cropping might chop heads off etc. |
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