Phoshop action for passport shots?

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If you only need one go at it for your own use...then making an action will
take longer than doing it just that once. If you are going to do it time and
again, then click to record it as an action. Any way you go about it you
will have made fewer keystrokes than what it took to ask.

Is there some part of it that you don't understand?


"_merlinO_" <merlino@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> Does anybody knows if exist a photoshop action which take a full size
> protrait and simulate a step+repeat, giving a quantity of correctly-sized
> passport shots on one enprint?
>
> merlinO
>
>

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In article <%lT4e.41763$kC3.34064@tornado.fastwebnet.it>, _merlinO_
<merlino@despammed.com> wrote:

> Does anybody knows if exist a photoshop action which take a full size
> protrait and simulate a step+repeat, giving a quantity of correctly-sized
> passport shots on one enprint?

Why waste time doing it with a computer? Get a Polaroid-based passport
camera like everybody else.

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POLAROID...........you must be living in the dark ages

"Randall Ainsworth" <rag@nospam.techline.com> wrote in message
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> In article <%lT4e.41763$kC3.34064@tornado.fastwebnet.it>, _merlinO_
> <merlino@despammed.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody knows if exist a photoshop action which take a full size
>> protrait and simulate a step+repeat, giving a quantity of correctly-sized
>> passport shots on one enprint?
>
> Why waste time doing it with a computer? Get a Polaroid-based passport
> camera like everybody else.

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In article <1112885248.783008.35630@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Scott W <biphoto@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Depends on how many you are planing on doing, there is of course a cost
> with the Polaroid-based passport camera

Yeah, but if you're going to be doing passports on a regular basis it's
a better way to go.

> The time it takes to do this in Photoshop is very small, set the crop
> tool to 2 inches by 2 inches and 300 dpi, crop the photo, dup the
> layer, resize the canvas to 200 percent in horizontal and shift one
> layer. I just did a test of this, took me 20 second to do.

If you're just doing it once for family or friends, OK. But on a
regular basis (like in a studio), then you're wasting too much time
using a computer.

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"Gene Palmiter" <palmiter_gene@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> If you only need one go at it for your own use...then making an action
will
> take longer than doing it just that once. If you are going to do it time
and
> again, then click to record it as an action. Any way you go about it you
> will have made fewer keystrokes than what it took to ask.
>
> Is there some part of it that you don't understand?

well, everytime I try to do an action on my own I find someone else who have
done the same work first and/or better...

merlinO

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In article <Kes5e.45582$kC3.38244@tornado.fastwebnet.it>, _merlinO_
<merlino@despammed.com> wrote:

> "Randall Ainsworth" <rag@nospam.techline.com> wrote in message
> news:070420050558508185%rag@nospam.techline.com...
>
> [...]
> > Why waste time doing it with a computer? Get a Polaroid-based passport
> > camera like everybody else.
>
> Computer is a standard ring of my photo production chain... buy a Polaroid
> cost more :-)

OK, you've got a customer that's in a hurry and wants their passport
picture NOW. So you take it with a digital camera. Dump it into the
computer. Dink around to make it passport specs. Print it out, cut it
down, and hand it to them.

Could have done it with a Polaroid-based camera designed for doing
passports in 60 seconds. You've got your money, they've got their pic,
and the whole thing is done quickly and efficiently.