Various scripts for 3ds Max we find helpful
A script that automatically resizes images for social media posting. It uses the recommendations as of May 2017 for image dimensions.
There are a few different ways to run the script. In true Adobe fashion, none are particularly ideal.
- On the Photoshop menu, choose File -> Scripts -> Browse and find the location where you saved the .jsx script file. Selecting the file there will run it.
- If you have Administrator access to your computer, you can have the script show up in the File -> Scripts menu by saving it to Photoshop's Presets folder. There should be a folder called "Presets / Scripts" in your Photoshop installation folder (Applications on Mac, Program Files on Windows). Copy the file there and it will show up on the File -> Scripts menu.
- Double click the .jsx file in your file browser. Adobe tends to mess up the file associations so this might not work reliably.
- The script operates on all the images you have open in Photoshop, so open all the images you want to convert and close all others.
- Run the script using one of the methods described in Installation
- For each output format for each file you will be given a crop window for formats that enforce the aspect ratio. Move the crop window as you like and press enter.
- After each crop, the script will save a properly sized JPG file to the same location as the original file, with a suffix added such as "_instagram" to indicate which format it is intended.
- Note that to keep the images from being blurry the script will not enlarge images.
- When the script is finished, it will restore your file to it's state just before running the script.
- You're done! Post the images and use the extra time you saved by not manually resizing and renaming files to have a nice cup of tea. It is recommended that you save your file before running the script to avoid potentially losing changes made since your last save if the script fails