Divide my photos into separate files
November 12, 2008 11:58 AM Subscribe
Is there a faster way to split a photo into pieces and save it as individual files? (possible photoshop batch question)
I have about 300 photos that were scanned using a flatbed scanner. To save time, they were scanned 8 at a time, leaving me with about 35 jpegs that each have 8 photos on a page. I want to split these into individual files for a slideshow, so using photoshop CS3 I have been selecting each individual photo out of the page of 8 photos, opening a new document, pasting the photo, and saving it into a folder. This is obviously taking forever. Is there a faster way?
I have about 300 photos that were scanned using a flatbed scanner. To save time, they were scanned 8 at a time, leaving me with about 35 jpegs that each have 8 photos on a page. I want to split these into individual files for a slideshow, so using photoshop CS3 I have been selecting each individual photo out of the page of 8 photos, opening a new document, pasting the photo, and saving it into a folder. This is obviously taking forever. Is there a faster way?
If you're comfortable writing scripts, you could do it with ImageMagick.
posted by demiurge at 1:02 PM on November 12, 2008
posted by demiurge at 1:02 PM on November 12, 2008
Seconding imagemagick Easy to plug together with a bash script. The basic format will be something like:
convert -crop 200x100+300+400 image.jpg image_cropped.jpg
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posted by chrisamiller at 2:35 PM on November 12, 2008
convert -crop 200x100+300+400 image.jpg image_cropped.jpg
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posted by chrisamiller at 2:35 PM on November 12, 2008
Best answer: Might as well give you a script too. Once you play with one image and find the proper coordinates to crop at, for each of the images, you can do something like this from a mac/linux/cygwin command line:
posted by chrisamiller at 2:39 PM on November 12, 2008
for i in *.jpg;do convert -crop 200x200+0+0 $i.jpg $i_cropped1.jpg convert -crop 200x200+0+200 $i.jpg $i_cropped2.jpg . . . convert -crop 200x200+400+400 $i.jpg $i_cropped8.jpg done(Adjust the parameters appropriately)
posted by chrisamiller at 2:39 PM on November 12, 2008
If the files are really big and the slices are really small, imagemagick can be a really bad idea. Something that only has to read the image file once, like a python script using PIL (e.g.) can be much faster.
posted by PueExMachina at 4:50 PM on November 12, 2008
posted by PueExMachina at 4:50 PM on November 12, 2008
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posted by i_love_squirrels at 12:40 PM on November 12, 2008