Batch cropping of Image in PhotoImpact 7

[MurkhaNand]

Hi

I have thousands of images to crop automatically. Photoimpact does this very nicely but one at a time. is it possible to have a batchfile which will automatically crop the images??. Please help.

Murkh

[Compuo_Dream]

You can easily use the command Batch manager from window menue ( of cource you have to open as much images as your system allows you to) .
Then you click on the item format and choose patch crop from the right pan. Then you click the button select all or use control button or shift for multi select as usual in windows. at last click on ok button.
You can use the same way to save or close files or do any command from PI MENU.
edward

[stephaniebt]

You can also create a task in the Quick Command Panel, then use the Task Manager to perform a Batch Task on an entire folder of images, without opening any of them. Before you try it, I'd caution you to create the task and do a batch task on a test folder of images first, to make sure the task really does what you want it to. And most importantly, if you want to preserve your originals, make sure that when you do the Batch Task, that you save the processed images to a folder you've created especially for them. If you don't, your originals will be overwritten.

I've written several tutorials on using Batch Tasks that you might want to check out. They are for various versions of PI, but the Quick Command Panel hasn't really changed much and the tuts may give you some ideas about how to perform this task:

http://www.eastofthesun.com/pi6/macros.htm

http://www.eastofthesun.com/pi7/qcmanager.htm

http://www.eastofthesun.com/pi7/task.htm

http://www.eastofthesun.com/pi5/qcpanel.htm

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