help to create an action for batch processing

Hi there

I'm new here and I hope you guys can help me with that...

I'm trying to create an action to later use it with batch processor in order to modify more than 1000 pictures.

The action i'm trying to create should be something to transform a vertical picture (canvas size let's say 1000px W 1333px H) to an horizontal one keeping the same canvas size (only now its 1333 px H 1000 px W) but obviously keeping the picture still in its vertical form, fitting in that new canvas on top and bottom and finally painting in black the left and right parts of the canvas where there is no image in it.

What i'm trying to do is create a film with flash using all my pictures, the horizontal ones and the vertical ones so when a horizontal one will take the full screen, a vertical one will take the center of the screen and fill the left and the right parts of the screen with black. Exactly the same effect you get for example when you browse pictures with iphoto or other diaporama softs on full screen.

I've been trying lots of different techniques to do that but no way of getting an action which works for a batch...



Some guru here can drop a hint???

Thanks for your consideration!

If I understood what action you're trying to make, here's a way that should work:

Rotate Canvas 90 CW
Make Layer (double-click the background layer and hit OK with the default settings)
Rotate Layer (free transform on the layer--rotate it 90 CCW)
New Layer
Layer Order (move the new layer to the bottom)
Fill Layer (with black)

That should work on a horizontal or vertical image of any dimensions. Let me know if this works, or if I misunderstood what you're trying to do.

Yeah man! That's it!

Awsome how simple it was...
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

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