InD Q : scale to fit
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- stringbean
you know in InDesign where you hit Opt + Apple + E and the image fits to the frame?
how do you (or can you) do you that in P-shop?
uber-thanks for anyone who knows!
- blastofv0
Photoshop doesn't really behave that way – each image is its own element, not a linked outside resource, like in InD. I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but I'd say you have to adjust a Photoshop file manually, one piece at a time...
- ninjasavant0
If what you're trying to do is make the extent of the image fit the extent of the contacts try this:
Ctrl (Cmd) click the thumbnail of the layer you want the image to fit.
Then go to Edit>CropThat should do it
- stringbean0
ninjasavant -
do you mean Image>Crop?
anyway, that just crops the outside of the image that you don't see anyway (e.g. outside the frame / canvas size).
i'd like to have it scale to fit the frame / canvas size. but yeah, i don't think that's possible.
dang.
thanks for the quick responses tho!
- ninjasavant0
yeah, thats it, wherever crop is.
If what you're talking about is the frame that shows up when you do a transform, that automatically fits to the contents of the layer. If its showing up larger then you've probably got more info on that layer. Does the image have a white background? or any background? if so magic erase it and see how that works.
Or it could be that you have faint pixels in other areas of your layer that you can't see with the naked eye. Here's my method of ridding myself of these phantom pixels:
Select the layer effects menu and choose outer glow. set the color to bright red (or something bright) and the opacity to 100 % and increase the size/spread of the glow. This should make every pixel on the layer show up with a big red glow. Then go in with the regular eraser and eradicate with extreme prejudice. Then delete the glow when youre done.
Hope that helps.
- stringbean0
thanks ninja.
i think what's i'm trying to do in p-shop won't work like InD. i've, instead, will have to go in and manually scale the images to fit the canvas.
oh wait. what about those thumbnail actions? don't those take an image and scale it to to a designated size but without skewing it?
hrm...
- ninjasavant0
ooooh, you want to go the other way. I see.
Unfortunately there's no way to do that layer by layer in an automated way. No way that I can figure out anyway.
Best of luck.
- stringbean0
woohoo!
thanks!
- aliceblue0
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johndiggitycould you not create an action for this and then use it on each image on each seperate layers (would beat typing it in etc each time)
- stringbean0
that's a thought, similar to the thumbnail action idea but i'm finding those skew the images just to fit in the frame.
grrr....
:)