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05:35 PM EST, Sunday Apr 01, 2007
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I'll run this past the great minds at ynot before I go to my photoshop forum, this is something either very simple that I'm missing or one of the great unsolved mysteries of the universe. I have two malfunctions lately that are a royal pain in the wazoo!
I always use my photoshop batch rename function to rename my galleries (ps 7), no problems until recently and it's so frustrating because we all no how important workflow features are. Anyhow...
I select all, enter the document name, specify 3-4 numerical extensions name, but as of late I am getting this 'you must specify an extension for the output file(s)'. Something I haven't had to do, so when I do enter a numerical extension (0001) I get this dialog 'you must include one of the document name, serial number or serial letter choices so the destination name is different for different input files'. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but to my view, I've done all of that already.
Needless to say I'm unable to batch rename and I end up going to my windows browser, the batch rename function sucks, they give you that annoying extension # in paranthesis, I end up renaming the extension by hand, one by one.
My second dilema involves the crop tool, if I'm cropping and decide to rotate the crop slightly or otherwise, the crop does not end up being framed in the same way. This is very annoying and certainly very problematic. I have reset all tools to their original setting but still can't seem to get this functions to work properly.
Do these mishaps sound formiliar to anyone? I do like to do all of my work in one program, any help would be much appreciated.
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06:29 PM EST, Sunday Apr 01, 2007
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You can do all this in Photoshop still....the renaming conventions, it's just asking for more specific ways to name your files, thats all.
If your images were "my pic"
Document Name = My Pic (capitalised first letters)
document name = my pic (all lower case)
The 3 options allow you to choose the order of the names....number first, date second etc.
There's also a "change destination folder" which helps keep them separate.
The cropping should change the angle to align with the bottom cut....the bottom cut will be horizontal. I find this a pain in the ass when my square / rectangle cuts off a part of the image, leaving a white background triangle of nothingness cutting into the new crop.
Hope that helps.
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06:53 PM EST, Sunday Apr 01, 2007
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Hey Smurf, I'm going to keep banging my head against the wall with the batch rename, but the cropping is still mysterious. It's not the white space if cropped over the image, I simply use the clone tool to fill in the space. It's the alignment, spinning the crop to frame it doesn't produce the same framed result when cropped.
Is there a way to clear out my cache or memory, I suspect this may be contributing to the problem. Both of these things are recent malfunctions, should be a way to remedy it, I just don't know what it is.
Thanks again for your input
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07:03 PM EST, Sunday Apr 01, 2007
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By "white" I should have said "background colour", sorry. Still if this is not your crop issue I must have misunderstood your query, could you post a before and after of what's going wrong, with a description of what you want to achieve? Visualizing can be easier than words sometimes.
I noticed in the prefs of Photoshop (I believe the last one in the list) is about the cache. It tells you to put the cache on a separate partition or hard drive if possible to improve performance although I don't notice any difference personally.
Even with that I don't see any reason why that would affect your query.....cache is simply working memory, that's all.....when it needs more things slow down a little to allow it to shunt some it's using back to the hard drive, and re-arrange it's resources to get the job done.
You can set a limit on how much cache Photoshop can create too, which is a handy function.
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07:08 PM EST, Sunday Apr 01, 2007
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I use PS CS and have exactly the same issue with the crop tool if I rotate the frame. I had assumed that this was just the way it worked. I'll ask a few friends to see what I come up with.
The way I get round this is to rotate the layer first and then crop straight. Not very efficient but it does work.
Interestingly being able to move the crop area outside the canvas is a feature introduced a few versions ago to allow you to change the canvas area quickly. I haven't looked but you might be able to turn this off in the preferences.
Batch renaming in Photoshop can be a bit of a dark art. It might be worth deleting your preferences file although I'd make a backup of the file before you delete it in case you lose too many settings.
Have you done an unusual batch conversion or naming recently, different to your normal workflow? Sometimes it is easy to change one setting and not realize that this one change has screwed everything else up.
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11:41 AM EST, Tuesday Apr 03, 2007
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For quick and easy batch renaming, I like this handy little utility .... ReNameIt Straight forward, intuative and pretty powerful.
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02:43 PM EST, Tuesday Apr 03, 2007
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Thanks Khan, I was wondering what other options I had. None of the other browsers or software I have does that, the window rename feature stinks.
Thanks again..
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02:42 PM EST, Friday Apr 06, 2007
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| khan wrote: | | For quick and easy batch renaming, I like this handy little utility .... www.dacave.com Straight forward, intuative and pretty powerful. |
Here's another one, Renamer:
www.albert.nu
We use it every day.
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09:42 AM EST, Monday Jan 11, 2010
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I guess I am not seeing something obvious.. I get the same error message but cannot find any place where I can enter the extension I do want. My files are tiff, I want to save them as jpeg.
There is a box in which I can hit 'extension', but then what?
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02:47 PM EST, Monday Jan 11, 2010
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Resurrecting old threads is never good practice, even when it's one of my own, additionally I'm presently using CS4. However since you've asked, Fast Stone is ideal for batch commands and resizing...
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04:04 PM EST, Monday Feb 15, 2010
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12:25 PM EST, Tuesday Feb 16, 2010
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CS4 all the way!
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