Adding boarders to a number of pics?

Prophet · 5 Sep 2006 at 16:18

Is there a way of batch boardering photographs? I seem to spend too much time doing everything one at a time. I'm getting used to some of the basic CS2 commands but would like to save time where possible.

Cheers,
OP

dod · 5 Sep 2006 at 16:41

Create an action for the border you want to create. Then just run a batch command on open files, folder etc with that action.

Prophet · 5 Sep 2006 at 16:42

dod said:
Create an action for the border you want to create. Then just run a batch command on open files, folder etc with that action.

Go on then, how do I do that?

dod · 5 Sep 2006 at 22:19

Go to the window tab along the top and select actions. Open any image and click the record button. Name it and create the border as you would normally. When you're finished Click the stop/save button.

Then when you're looking to apply the border to a number of images go to the File tab, select automate and then batch. You'll find your new action in the "Actions" drop down, select it and either choose a folder or all open images, whatever. Run it and you should be fine

Prophet · 5 Sep 2006 at 23:26

Thanks for that. I'll give it a go tomorrow when I do some more editing

ElDude · 6 Sep 2006 at 16:19

There's actually a tutorial on how to do that in this months Digital Photography magazine, with a video tut on the disc that comes with it.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 6 Sep 2006 at 17:43

Test your action out on a few files to start with. If you get it wrong you could end up with it going pete tong on you and it will constantly overwrite the same file over and over if you havent set up your save settings properly.