I need help finding a mass cropping tool (pic inside)

[bjork]

hey guys,

I need help finding a quick cropping tool for us to use at work. We currently use photoshop to do really simple cropping... it's a little overkill for simple cropping, and it drags on a few of our older systems.

there's a bunch of "open-crop-save-close" apps out there, but if any of you guys know of one that does a little trick it would be great... here's what i mean:

often we have one full page image that we need to pull multiple images "off of"... say the filename is "1001.jpg"...


pic = http://publicskool.com/temp/crop_tool.jpg


... and we want to be able to draw the three rectangles in one motion, hit CROP, and end up with 1001a.jpg, 1001b.jpg, and 1001c.jpg.

currently in photoshop, we're doing a crop, "save as..." and naming the first crop, going to the history palette and backing up to "pre-crop"... doing the second crop, save as, history palette... etc etc... sometimes for 5 times on a single image.... in a folder full of hundreds of images at a time...

i know it's a real niche function here i'm asking for... but have any of you guys come across something like this?

 

[WannaFly]

I dont know of any software that can do this for you but photoshop actions could help speed up the process quite a bit.

 

[Schadenfroh]

irfanview (not sure if it performs cropping the way you describe tho)

 

[Abhoth]

Irfanview has a great batch function for a multitude of things.... but what you describe may be beyond most if not all image editors.

 

[bjork]

the thing that's lame is that i know there's TWAIN modules out there for UMAX scanners that can do this kind of thing on the "acquire side" of things... the ability to draw three rectangles on one "preview pass" and end up with three separate scans.

i swear i've SEEN it somewhere too... as a cropping tool, i just can't remember the name of it...

(and yes... my link to pic is down... my webserver should be back up by this afternoon )

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

You can script imagemagick to do it lickity split.

 

[bjork]

You can script imagemagick to do it lickity split.

wow! and i could write MUDs all day, but instead i waste my time playing world of warcraft... imagine that!

and to think i'm writing this thread from within internet explorer instead of lynx!

then again, i guess my post count shows which of us is a l33t sKripZor and which of us is a troll... or wait... maybe one of us is both, and one of us is neither...?