Stop-Motion Animation - Prepping Images Part I

The images that you have created for your stop-motion animation will need to be resized. Whether created on a DSLR camera or a smartphone, these original images will create a file much too large and unwieldy for our purposes.

You will need Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop for this part of the assignment.

Follow these steps to prep your images and transfer them into Photoshop:

1.) create a new folder on your desktop and give it an appropriate name; i.e., Movie Images, or Animation Photos, etc.

 (above) the folder where all images for this client are kept

 (above) the folder inside the above folder where all images are kept for this project

2.) on an Apple computer, open ImageCapture to transfer images from your device to your computer (Windows machines have similar programs)

3.) under Devices at the top left hand corner of ImageCapture, select your device and the images from that device will start to pop up in the window

4.) select ONLY the images you want to transfer and at the bottom dropdown menu, select where you want those images sent, which is, of course, your newly created folder

5.) once your images have been transferred, quit ImageCapture and unplug your device from your computer

6.) open Adobe Bridge, find your new folder and open it to display your images that you have transferred

(above) the files are now loaded into the appropriate folder

IMPORTANT - make sure that ALL images are horizontal (or square); you CANNOT have any vertical images

7.) select all images in that folder (under Edit, choose Select All, or press and hold the Command key while you press the letter 'A')

(above) selecting all the images within the folder

(above) all images are highlighted and selected

8.) keeping those images selected, go to Tools, pull down to Photoshop, and across to Image Processor - at this point, Adobe Photoshop will open and a dialogue window will pop up

(above) selecting the Image Processor of Adobe Photoshop through Adobe Bridge

 (above) you may get the above message if you are on shared Cloud devices

just ignore it and click the YES button

(above) the 4 sections referenced below as they should be selected

note that since I had 916 files in my stop-motion captures, that number displays in Section 1

 - set the information in the dialogue window as follows in the 4 sections:

Section 1:  Select the images to process
- make sure that all of your images show as being selected; for example, if your created 200 images, it should say Process files from Bridge only (200)
- do NOT check Open first image to apply settings

Section 2:  Select location to save processed images
- make sure Save in Same Location is checked as this will create a new folder inside the same folder where your images are located and you won't have to search for these resized images on your computer

Section 3:  File Type
- check Save as JPEG
- check Resize to Fit
- type 12 inside the Quality box
- check Convert Profile to sRGB
- W: 1080
- H: 1080

Section 4:  Preferences
- check ONLY Include ICC Profile

Once you have these settings, click the Run button that is in the upper right hand corner of the dialogue box and your images will start to resize