Batch Photoshop Question?

Since I'm new to all this I have a batch problem to figure out in Photoshop. Do you write a separate action for verticals as for horizontals? I wanted to batch 60 photos to jpeg 50K. I first made a action that included a size change to 5w x 7h. This did not work for verticals. I then made a action for 7h x 5w for verticals. When do you seperate the V's from the H's so this can be done? Is their a faster way? I know I'm missing something. The workflow can't be this time consuming.

The easy way would be to have two actions and then just put the images into two folders. If you use a browser like ACDSee or Thumbs+ so that you can see the images before you move them, the workflow should be very easy.

Move photos to two folders, then do the action for each folder.

I'm sure that there is a good way to do it, something about rotating the image if it is vertical and then doing the action and rotating it back, if it was not vertical to start with, but that is beyond my ability.

I do know that the create a web page feature allows you to resize and generate thumb nails of images. You might try making a web page and then just taking the images and trashing the rest.

tontophoto said:

Since I'm new to all this I have a batch problem to figure out in
Photoshop. Do you write a separate action for verticals as for
horizontals? I wanted to batch 60 photos to jpeg 50K. I first made
a action that included a size change to 5w x 7h. This did not work
for verticals. I then made a action for 7h x 5w for verticals. When
do you seperate the V's from the H's so this can be done? Is their
a faster way? I know I'm missing something. The workflow can't be
this time consuming.

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This was a tip that i read some time back. Instead of setting the size set the % when you resize then it won't matter how the picture is oriented. neat eh!:^)

Provided that the input files are all the same size that would work. If the input files have been cropped, then the end result would be different sized files.

Gary said:

This was a tip that i read some time back. Instead of setting the
size set the % when you resize then it won't matter how the picture
is oriented. neat eh!:^)

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