Introduction

A script to reduce and save images to fit within specific limits, individually or for all images in a folder.

• Photography competitions often have specific requirements for digital entries in the form of image size limits. As a member of a photography club I wanted to have a script that would allow me create entries for these type of competitions with the correct sizes by just choosing the name of the competition. The "Save Small JPEG" script does this for me and includes a folder processing option.
• Preparing images to print accurately on supermarket print lab printers like the Fuji Frontier can be tricky. This script provides options to fine tune photos to print well on these types of printers.

Description

Use this script to create a reduced 8bit sRGB JPEG copy of an existing image. The new JPEG is saved using settings which you refer to by name, making the process very easy.

This script is useful in these situations like these:

• You need to regularly create small JPEG images of your images that comply with specific size limit rules like those for photography competitions. Limits such as maximum width, maximum height and maximum file size.
• You need to batch process - reducing and saving a whole folder of images as JPEG for an Audio Visual or website. The images can be of varying types such as JPEG, TIF, PSD, camera raw - in fact whatever Photoshop can open.
• You want to prepare a folder of images for printing a supermarket printer, by adding your own border and allowing for the cropping and shifting that those printers usually have.
• You have the option to run a photoshop action for each image as well.

All measurements are in pixels. For example, if you want to make a 6x4 inch print at 200 ppi for a Fuji Frontier printer, then you'll need to enter settings of maximum width of 1200 pixels and maximum height of 800 pixels.

Works with?

Photoshop CC

Latest version works on Windows, no feedback from Mac users.

Photoshop CS6

Not tested, but would expect it to work.

Photoshop CS5

Latest version works on Windows, no feedback from Mac users.

Photoshop CS3

Works on Windows and Apple Mac.

Photoshop CS2

Earlier versions worked on Windows, presumably works on Apple Mac.

In CS2, there are two minor issues with the Edit Preset dialog box:

• The OK button and Cancel buttons are not right aligned.
• The save option always defaults to Folder regardless of previous setting. This does not affect making a change or image processing.

Photoshop CS

Not tested, hopefully works.

Cost?

This script was created for the benefit of photography club members but anyone can use it, at their own risk.

You may only use this script if you agree to the terms of the license which is available in the PDF documentation and embedded in the script itself.

Download

The script and documentation is contained within the zip file. The zip file includes an installation script for Windows XP.

• Save Small JPEG 1.16 savesmalljpeg116.zip (Current Version).

If you are not using XP, follow the instructions in the documentation to manually install the script.

The documentation may be a bit behind the actual functionality, but the principle is the same.

Information for members of Northside Creative Photography

The script is preconfigured with settings for our EDI competitions and gallery. Open your image, run the script, choose the purpose e.g "... - competition", then click Save Now. Choose your folder and enter the image name and click Ok. Your image is created according to current requirements of our competitions.

Information for other camera clubs

You could distribute to your members the xml settings file preconfigured with your own competition requirements.