Autocrop Frame After Straightening

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

Does anyone know of a way to automate adjusting the cropping frame
after straightening a picture using the Measure tool?

I have a friend who is verticality challenged. He seems incapable of
getting a shot straight. He just shot a big Christmas party and has
over a hundred shots to straighten. I have to straighten one
occasionally myself. It seems tedious and unnecessary to have to
adjust the cropping frame every time after straightening the picture.

I teach elementary photoediting using all versions PS and PSE.
Somewhere along the line I ran across a version of PSE that
automatically did this. It fit the cropping frame to the picture
content so, if you just wanted to remove the exposed canvas you could
click crop and you were done.

Does anyone know of an action or an add-in that will do this in
Photoshop?

[george_...@adobeforums.com]

Go to the Adobe Exchange and search for a script named autocropv2.jsx.
This script might do what you need. It works on CS, CS2 and CS3 not sure about other versions.

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

>>Go to the Adobe Exchange and search for a script named autocropv2.jsx.

>>This script might do what you need. It works on CS, CS2 and CS3 not sure about other versions.

Sorry, I'm so long in responding. Things went a little crazy after I
posted the question and it got blown out of my mind.

Thanks for your reply. When I searched for autocropv2.jsx at Adobe
Exchange it got no hits/results.

[boblevine]

PLEASE turn off the autoquote!

Bob

[george_...@adobeforums.com]

Try this link.

<http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1042987>

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:28:49 -0800 someone wrote:

> <http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1042987>

Thanks

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

>PLEASE turn off the autoquote!

Quotes? I don't see no quotes.

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

Except the quotes I wanted to show to make the exchange clear.

[dave_...@adobeforums.com]

Except the quotes I wanted to show to make the exchange clear.

yes. exactly. or i should say, concisely. :)

[boblevine]

I deleted two full postings out that last one.

Bob

[dave_...@adobeforums.com]

XD

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:15:48 -0800 someone wrote:

>I deleted two full postings out that last one.

Let's be clear. It had been almost six weeks since my original post,
and his reply. If I had simply answered without quoting, no one, but
possibly him, would have had any idea what I was talking about.

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

>XD

Beg pardon?

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:28:49 -0800 someone wrote:

>Try this link.
>
> <http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1042987>

Thanks for the though, but you may want to know, that script does not
work. The only review, which is two and a half years, old is exactly
correct:

"In the first setting it crops down to just a tiny, section of
the image. In the other two, it does nothing."

[george_...@adobeforums.com]

Well I'm sitting at PC with Vista Ultimate. The script runs fine on my computer using either CS1 or CS3.

I always use Binary Search and it does a great job with minimal loss of image.

No idea why it is not working for you.

[Pau...@adobeforums.com]

Must agree with George, excellect script and have had no problems with it.

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

I'm also using it on CS3.

Here is an example. The first image is the original tilted. The
second is autocropv2 binary search mode.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7470/blackyonderhs7.jpg
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1579/blackyondercroprp0.jpg

The other two modes do nothing at all.

It is not unique to the image. I've tried it on about 5 images. The
amount left after the crop varies but all crop to a small part of the
original image.

[Pau...@adobeforums.com]

For these all you need to do is use the built in script:
File - Automate - Crop and Straighten Photos
Works fine on the example you gave.

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

That script crops more of the image than necessary.

[i_am...@adobeforums.com]

That's interesting. I tried it a second time and it cropped
correctly. Just the same, what I really want is for the cropping
frame to be adjusted automatically and allow me to do the crop so that
if I would be clipping off something I don't want to lose I can adjust
the fame out a little and later clone over the canvas. Also, I doubt
it can do an accurate rotation to vertical with some images.