How to crop images in batch and then re-crop the same way
Olivia Zamora
I am getting automatically generated screenshots of our application, some of which need cropping, since they may only relate to a pop up window or some small portion of the screen.
Is there some way I could open a new screenshot, set how it should be cropped, have it cropped, and then, let's say a month later, when there's a new version of the screenshot, crop it the same way as the previous version without having to manually set the cropping area again?
In other words, I'm looking for a way to manage a "cropping project" encompassing a bunch of screenshots of the same size (1920x1080) at the source, but different size at the output due to the cropping.
So, input is always 1920x1080, but I should be able to say:
- Crop some area from image A and save it as JPG
- Crop another area from image B and save it as JPG
- etc
and this should be done automatically based on some definition of the cropping, so that when I change the input images, I shouldn't have to re-do the cropping manually. Is this possible?
61 Answer
There are many applications that will crop images in a "batch" mode. Without knowing your operating system, it is difficult to list them.
However, if you look for ImageMagik, you should find something for your platform.
Tools like this allow you to select images by name, size, etc and run the same transform on them.
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