iPad picture resize action for Photoshop
June 8th, 2010
Here is my iPad picture resizing Photoshop action (right click link and choose to download linked file) I’ve zipped the action for security. The slideshow function within the iPad photos app works very well and smoothly with pictures prepared using this action. The pictures are displayed at exactly 50% when viewed full screen and this gives you some very useful zoom in capability if you want to show off the detail of a picture to your client.
The action steps for your reference are: Flatten, Make RGB, Make 8Bit, Resize using Auto Fit to 2048 x 1536 pixels, Stroke 4 pixels white inside, Convert to sRGB, Save as a Jpeg at Q12.
Unzip the action and put it in your Photoshop actions folder. Restart Photoshop. Batch process your pictures into a new folder placed within the folder that syncs with your iPad Photos app and you are good to go.
Here are typical settings. You will need to select your source and destination folders.
Let me know how you get on.
11 Comments Add your own
1. David Wilson | June 9th, 2010 at 12:08 am
Excellent Damien, thanks a lot. As you posted this, I was in the process of setting my own action to do something similar. Many thanks indeed! Oh, and yes, it works perfectly.
2. Martin hodgkiss | June 9th, 2010 at 12:38 am
iTunes creates low resolution copies of whatever photos you choose to put on your iPad, scaling them to the screen size (1024×768) before syncing them to your iPad.
How do you get around this?
I’ve been looking into this for about a week now as iTunes seems to really destroy image quality of my pics, compared to say those on the guardian eyewitness app.
Previously it looked like it was only possible directly, with the Apple USB adapter. When I wanted to use the images I already had in my lightroom library.
Sounds great you’ve found away.
3. Studio2 | June 9th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Damien
thanks for this i’ll be using this when i collect mine in the next week or so
Martin
4. damien | June 9th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
hi Martin,
Fortunately for us all you have been mis-informed. After resizing using my action, pictures don’t get scaled down again in iTunes. Pictures ‘display’ to fit within 1024 x 768 (exactly 50% hence clean clear render) but retain their full size available on demand. So when you double tap on the image it zooms in to 100% and renders a perfect image, clean, crisp, sharp and not pixelated. Another double tap returns it to 50% and a perfectly rendered fit to the screen.
Regards,
Damien.
5. Martin hodgkiss | June 10th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Damien, thank god for that!
I got that piece of information from an apple moderator on the iPad forum. I just copied & pasted it. I’m glad he was wrong.
Thanks for your info. I’d been emailing images to the iPad to bypass iTunes!!
Played with that ‘photogene’ app yet?
Martin.
6. damien | June 11th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Hi Martin,
Photogene is not something I’ll ever use on an iPad. I do all my editing on a laptop or desktop machine using Lightroom and Photoshop.
I now have clearly defined uses for my iPad, iPod, iPhone and MacBook Pro. There are some overlaps but not many.
Damien.
7. Jenny Tremlett | June 20th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
So far I have just had my photos on my iPad at the same resolution as they have been on my iPhone, but I have tried this action out and it is such an improvement and works brilliantly, especially with the batch command. Thank you so much Damien :0)
Jenny
8. damien | July 4th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Thanks Jenny – enjoy your iPad
9. James Crockford | July 28th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Hmmm – just given it a go and for some reason the images look the same size as before…. erk. Not quite sure what I did wrong as it all seemed to do was add the stroke…
10. julie moult | August 12th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Fantastic Damien …thank you, you’ve saved me hours! looking forward to meeting you on the 31st..just watching your DVD
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11. damien | August 14th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Thanks Julie,
I look forward to shooting with you on the Urban Portraits workshop.
Cheers, Damien.
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