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Please, can we have a "relative" option when resizing the document or the canvas?  That is, the ability add or subtract some amount (pixels, inches, etc) from the dimensions of the document or canvas.

Alternatively, if I type, for example "+=20" into one of the width or height boxes while recording a macro, could the macro remember the formula rather than the calculated value?

Thanks.

-- Bill W

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19 minutes ago, billw51 said:

Please, can we have a "relative" option when resizing the document or the canvas?  That is, the ability add or subtract some amount (pixels, inches, etc) from the dimensions of the document or canvas.

You can already do that by typing "+=" or "-="and some number of units and whatever unit you want (they don't need to match the document units). E.g., +=20px or -=2in or whatever you want.

It won't work well for macros, though, as you mentioned in your second paragraph

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"+=" doesn't work at all for macros. The macro stores the result of the calculation, not the formula.

This may seem trivial for such a sophisticated photo editing app, but what I need to do is add a consistent drop shadow to many images (the images are different sizes). I've come up with a workaround (thanks to several threads here that address this issue) that effectively resizes the canvas, but why not just have the ability to do this from the resize function?

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11 minutes ago, billw51 said:

"+=" doesn't work at all for macros. The macro stores the result of the calculation, not the formula

True. But you asked for a relative resize, which that gives.

You also asked for something to help with macros, and it does not help there, but I did not respond to that part of your post.

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It might be possible to do that using Equations, which could be incorporated into a macro. It would be straightforward to write a macro to add a fixed amount (such as 20px), but rather more complex (but not impossible) to have a more general macro with the increment as a parameter.

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On 4/15/2019 at 7:24 PM, John Rostron said:

It might be possible to do that using Equations, which could be incorporated into a macro. It would be straightforward to write a macro to add a fixed amount (such as 20px), but rather more complex (but not impossible) to have a more general macro with the increment as a parameter.

John

I would like to withdraw my assertions above. The Filters > Distort > Equations acts on the Document and not on the Canvas, which is what is needed here.  I would be interested (and indeed amazed) if anyone could prove me wrong on this.

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  • 2 months later...

The basic nature of macros is a dealbreaker. Without automated actions, a lot of people won't move from PS without major headaches and disruption to workflow. I need to resize batches of photos for the web by making them all 800 pixels wide, but they have different heights and I don't want to adjust this. Macros don't let you do this, PS does. Like PS lets you crop any file to 800 pixels wide and AP doesn't. It makes me so sad because I hate Adobe!

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43 minutes ago, hungrydog said:

 I need to resize batches of photos for the web by making them all 800 pixels wide, but they have different heights and I don't want to adjust this. Macros don't let you do this, 

Are you saying that if you have a photo of, say,  2000 x 1000px you want to resize it to 800 x 1000px  (i.e. not preserving the aspect ratio)?

If so, you can already do this in File > New Batch Job without using a macro

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14 hours ago, carl123 said:

Are you saying that if you have a photo of, say,  2000 x 1000px you want to resize it to 800 x 1000px  (i.e. not preserving the aspect ratio)?

If so, you can already do this in File > New Batch Job without using a macro

And you can use File > New Batch Job to preserve the aspect ratio i.e 800 px by whatever the new height will be.

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9 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

And you can use File > New Batch Job to preserve the aspect ratio i.e 800 px by whatever the new height will be.

That is EXACTLY what I need. Thank you, Old Bruce and also carl123 (though I want to preserve the aspect ratio). 

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