Automating a few things?

Hi

i'm trying to automate a few functions, my english is not the best but i will try to explain as best i can.

let's say i have a picture shown as below



what i would like to do is to export each window, to separate files, with the white parts cropped. i can do it manually by using the magic wand on the white area in between, then inversing the selection. that way all the windows are selected perfectly. but to save each one as a separate file is a nuisance.

by the way the purpose of this task is to get a comic i have scanned to an ipod for viewing. i can do the cropping/resizing afterwards no troubles, it's just getting the individual 'windows' as separate files.

hope you can help, thankyou!

I really don't see an automated way to save each of the images as a seperate file.
Looks like you are stuck:
making your selection,
extracting the images from the background
duplicating the image (IMAGE>DUPLICATE) 3 times....
making your crop in each image. Then saving the 4 different files.

Sorry

Hi there,

You don't say which version of Photoshop you are using, but in CS and CS2 there is an option in the File/Automate menu named Crop and Staighten Photos. Not sure if this was an option on earlier versions.

This will take the image you show and extract all 4 calculator images into separate documents.

Hope this helps.

I'm pretty sure George is right, this command was new to version CS, so if you have an earlier version you're probably stuck with doing it manually!

No problem at all with your English, Vertigo

Wow, thanks George.... I had never looked into that option but I tryed it on Vertigo's calculator image and it worked like a charm.

I really don't see a circumstance where I would use it at work, but it definatly does work.