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All,

I have an unusual question. I have 100 jpg files. I need crop each file exactly the same. I have experimented a bit with Photoshop, but I was wondering if anyone has a better suggestion. I am looking for a "Cropping Tool" that I can control from AHK so that I can feed it input and output file names.

Thanks for your assistance.
Costas

...if u are using photoshop, then just stick with it
save one macro and run it on all images

OR

use the microsoft office picture manger, Ctrl+A for all the 100 images, and do cropping on one of the image, and then save all

OR

AHK method will be using the GDI (search forum) library

Coincidence ....this was a post just a day ago or so.............


http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic67932.html

Dear Guests,

Thank you very much for your help.

I tried to use the microsoft office picture manger, Ctrl+A for all the 100 images, and do cropping on one of the image, and then save all. However, with my version of Picture Manager, I could not do cropping with multiple files, just one at a time.

I had never worked with Picture Manager before, but it seems easier for cropping than my old version of Photoshop.

Anyway, I was able to write an AHK program to work in conjunction with Picture Manager and it works great - it steps through the jpg files one at a time and crops them - very close to "magic"

Thanks again for your assistance. I learned some new things today as a result of your suggestions.

Sincerely,
Costas

Costas: Should you have to do something similar again, I would really recommend Photoshop actions as mentioned by Guest. See an example to get started here: http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorial ... al-actions

Also, I just PMed you...

also with irfanview commandlines
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/post-418218.html#418218
this example saves and cuts screen