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This is a Photoshop CS Javascript that allows you to automate the resizing and cropping of images in Photoshop without worrying about the orientation or aspect ratio (proportions) of the image. It will resize and crop an image to the exact dimensions that you specify. These features are especially useful when you want to automate the process on a number of images by adding it to an action set.

Note that many people have mentioned the "Fit Image" command which merely resizes an image to fit within a frame of a certain proportion, but does not actually crop an image to what you want as the final result.

You can find examples of how to use the script near the end of this page

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resizerlite.jsx is released under a liberal BSD-style license which enables you to add, modify, and distribute the code however you want, whether privately or commerically so long as the product retains the original copyright information and acknowledgements.

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version 0.1.3a (14 Sept 2004 Photoshop CS).
version 0.1.4a (19 Nov 2004 Photoshop CS).
version 0.2.1a (30 April 2005 for Photoshop CS2).
version 0.2.2a (27 May 2007 for CS3, should be CS2 compatible).
LATEST version 0.3 (14 June 2010 for CS5, should be CS3 compatible).

• Resize and Crop to any dimension (currently only centre-cropped).
• Resize to Fit Image within a defined dimension, specifying long side only and short side resized proportionally, or specifying short side only and long side resized proportionally.
• Add EXIF information (or any other type of text) from RAW, TIFF, and JPEG files. In v2.2: You can choose any font that's on your system for the text. You can position the text in any part around the border (almost).
• Add Proof text watermark to image.
• Add matting border.
• Reposition image so that a drop shadow effect can be applied - for thumbnail purposes.
• Auto rotation of image to landscape or portrait.
• Watermark your photo with any image. (v2.1+)

I've attempted to make the script as simple to use as possible, so hopefully things should be obvious upfront. Nevertheless, this instruction set is meant to help you fine tune the script to your desired needs and also shows a few examples on the uses of the script.

You can edit the script with any text editor available on your system, such as Notepad. Simply open it up in the editor and change the required fields to meet your needs. Once you have finished editing the script, you should save it with an appropriate filename, such as "6x4x250_bordered.jsx" to indicate a script that resizes the photo to 6x4" at 250dpi and with a border.

To run the script in Photoshop, have an image opened and go to File->Scripts->Browse to locate your script. Photoshop will run it immediately after opening the script.

If you want the script to appear in Photoshops menu (in File->Scripts area) automatically, copy the script to the Photoshop/Presets/Scripts folder
(eg C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Scripts).

1.       Start by going to the section that has MODIFY THIS SECTION ONLY. Anything that is enclosed within /* and */ are comments and not processed by the scripting engine.

You can then modify any of the values that start with var, ie units, long_side, short_side, etc. The types of values you can change them to are shown after the example below.

/*
 * MODIFY THIS SECTION ONLY ***********************
 *
 * Change the following parameters to what you want.
 * Only change the values after the "=" sign.
 * ...
 */

var units       = INCHES;
var long_side   = 4;
var short_side  = 6;
var dpi         = 250;
var orientation = ORIG;
var border      = 0.25;
var dropshadow  = 0;
var textedge	= border/2;
var dateformat  = MDY;     // format for date timestamp

// leave color_profile as "" if no profile change desired.
var color_profile = "sRGB IEC61966-2.1"; 

• units
  Specify the output units you are working in. The valid values are INCHES, CM, and PIXELS. Apart from the dropshadow value which is measured in pixels (I'll fix this up in due time), every other dimension value is measured in the units specified here.

• long_side
  Put down how long you want the longest side of the photo to be resized to.
  If you put down 0 (zero), then the photo will be resized proportionally to the short_side.
  
  If both long_side and short_side are 0 (zero), then the photo is not resized.
  If both long_side and short_side are specified, then the photo is resized and cropped to that area.

• short_side
  Similar to the long_side parameter, this specifies how large the shortest side of the photo should be. You can leave this as 0 (zero) to resize proportionally to the long_side of the photo.

• dpi
  Change this to the dots-per-inch resolution of the output device. For example, for viewing on the monitor only, 72 is sufficient. For printing, you should set it to 250 or 300. Note that DPI is really only relevant for units of INCHES or CM.

• orientation
  Originally, this was designed to rotate the image into the portrait or landscape position because, back then, a large number of print houses required you to set the orientation of the photo explicitly. Their machines did not have the capability to print the photo in the correct way without it. Nowadays, you can leave your photo in any orientation and the printer is smart enough to do the right thing.
  
  The valid values for orientation are ORIG, LANDSCAPE, or PORTRAIT.

• border
  If you'd like the script to automatically add a border to the photo, you can specify how large that border is. The border colour by default is white. How this works is the photo is copied onto a new layer and the background layer is cleared out. The photo layer is then masked with a border.

• dropshadow
  (in PIXELS only) The dropshadow feature is only useful if you plan to create thumbnails with the script and want to add enough room for a drop shadow to appear under the thumbnail.
  
  The script does not actually add a dropshadow effect to the image, but only creates a duplicate layer, resizes and moves the photo to the top left position. You need to add the dropshadow effect to the layer yourself after the script has ran.

• textedge
  If you plan on having text written around the border of the image, the textedge value tells the script how far from the edge of the image to print the text. The default value of border/2 puts the text right in the middle of the border.

• dateformat
  Because of internationalisation of dates, I've added the ability to specify the local date format of your country. For US format, use MDY, and for most other countries, use DMY.

• color_profile
  If you want to automatically convert the image to a particular color profile then set this value. The full name must be provided (exactly as it appears in the profiles dropdown in Photoshop).

2.       Go to the Personal Signature Overlay section. Changing this section allows you to add your own customised watermark onto the image. The watermark can be any type of image that Photoshop is able to open, ie, JPG, PNG, PSD, etc.

If you want your own logo as the watermark, I recommend that you create it as a two layer PSD, with the top layer being the logo. This way, you can have transparent areas around the logo not appear in the watermark.

/*
 * Personal Signature overlay
 *
 * - signature_file = specify the full filename of ...
 * ...
 */

var signature_file    = ""; // signature not used
var signature_position = BOTTOM_EDGE | RIGHT_CORNER;
var signature_width   = 1;
var signature_height  = 0;
var signature_opacity = 50.0;
var signature_gutter  = border + 0.1;

• signature_file
  The full filename of your watermark image file. This includes the full drive letter and directories for the file. The directory path must be separated with a forward slash "/". For example, "C:/Photos/MyLogo/Logo.psd" for Windows.

• signature_position
  The location to put the watermark over the image.
  
  For vertical position, the valid values are TOP_EDGE, MIDDLE, and BOTTOM_EDGE.
  
  For horizontal position, the valid values are LEFT_CORNER, CENTER, and RIGHT_CORNER.
  
  The vertical and horizontal position are combined with a "|" (pipe) character. In the example above, BOTTOM_EDGE | RIGHT_CORNER puts the watermark at the lower right hand corner of the image.

• signature_width, signature_height
  The width and height that you want to resize the watermark to. If only one of the dimension is specified, the other is resized proportionally. They are measured in the same unit as specified by the units parameter.

• signature_opacity
  The opacity of the watermark...

• signature_gutter
  Specifies how far from the edge of the image that the watermark's edge should be.

3.       The script allows you to add a large number of text fields to the image at many of the positions around the border. Each text field is specified as an element in the text_fields array. While it might look daunting to modify at first, once you understand what the entries are, you should be able to customise them yourself.

If you don't want to have any text added to the image, simply change the text_fields to:

var text_fields = "";

var text_fields = new Array (
        new Array(
                "TEXT",
                "FONT",
                FONT SIZE,
                PLACEMENT
        ),
        new Array(
                "\xA9 Copyright - text field 1",  // text
                "Arial",                          // font
                6,                                // size
                TOP_EDGE | LEFT_CORNER | TEXT_ALIGN_BORDER // align
        ),
        ...
    );

A text field consists of four entries and wrapped in an Array. The example in the script will draw text at almost every corner of the image. You can delete text field entry in the text_fields array if you don't want that many.

The entries in each text field consist of:

• the text string itself, which can be customised with EXIF information (discussed below)
• the font for the text field, exactly as presented in the drop down list of fonts in Photoshop
• the size of text, in points
• the placement of the text, combinations of horizontal and vertical positions: TOP_EDGE, MIDDLE, BOTTOM_EDGE, LEFT_CORNER, CENTER, and RIGHT_EDGE. There is a special TEXT_ALIGN_BORDER option which places the text aligned to the sides of the border frame (away from the full edge of whole the image).

The script provides the flexibility of adding EXIF information to the text fields by looking for special character combinations that are prefixed with a %.

For example, if you wanted to have the filename shown and the date that the photo was taken, you can have a text string of
       "%f, shot on %D".
This will result in a line such as this being printed on the image:
       IMG_3444, shot on 30/03/2007

The full set of accepted fields that can be added to your custom text includes:

  %f - filename
  %F - filename with extension
  %d - date in YYYY/mm/dd format
  %D - date in dd/mm/YYYY (DMY) or mm/dd/YYYY (MDY) format
  %h - time in hh:mm AM/PM, 12 hour format
  %H - time in HH:MM, 24 hour format
  %i - ISO
  %a - aperture (f/stop)
  %s - speed (1/n seconds)
  %l - lens focal length (in mm)
  %b - camera Make
  %c - camera Model
  %% - print % character

4.       The final feature of the script is the ability to stamp a Proof text right in the center of the image. The proof text can be rotated counter-clockwise to any number of degrees. The opacity can also be changed if desired. The values should be straight forward to chanage if you want Proof stamping.

var proof_text = "";
var proof_font = "Arial";
var proof_text_size = 60;
var proof_text_rotate = 10;
var proof_text_opacity = 50.0;

var units       = PIXELS;
var long_side   = 640;
var short_side  = 480;
var dpi         = 72;
var orientation = ORIG;
var border      = 30;
var dropshadow  = 0;
var textedge	= border/2;
var dateformat  = MDY;

var text_fields = "";

var signature_file    = "C:/temp/dmsx.psd";
var signature_position = BOTTOM_EDGE | CENTER;
var signature_width   = 200;
var signature_height  = 0;
var signature_opacity = 70.0;
var signature_gutter  = border + 5;

var text_fields = new Array (
	new Array(
		"%f, %D",             // text
		"Arial",              // font
		12,                   // size
		TOP_EDGE | LEFT_CORNER | TEXT_ALIGN_BORDER // align
	),
	new Array(
		"LEON DANG",          // text
		"Georgia",            // font
		16,                   // size
		BOTTOM_EDGE | CENTER  // align
	),
    );