HOME | DD
kingkool6 — Deviant Bordermaker 2.00
Published: 2005-11-17 02:37:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 7015; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 3692
Redirect to original
Description
The third update to the popular Deviant Bordermaker tool. Spend less time conforming your deviations to proper aspect ratios. Deviant bordermaker calculates the proper dimensions your image should be and provides a script to batch convert your images. Some of the new features include:
Calculate proper dimensions for each aspect ratio See a live preview of what your image with a border will look like Export data to Photoshop for automated batch converting Works in any modern browser* Easy to use!*Batch converting is a script that requires Photoshop CS/CS2 or Photoshop 7.0 with the scripting plugin.
As always I will be here to answer any questions you might have. Please to hesitate to send me a note or email. I'm always looking for ways to improve this just drop me a line.
Related content
Comments: 140
This seems like an awesome idea! I have a question: it says, "Calculate proper dimensions for each aspect ratio" so does it calculate then add a boarder to get the right resolution? Or does it allow you to crop the image to how you like? hmm.. maybe I'll just d/l and give it a try when I get home..
Great contribution anyhow, seems like people have found this to be very useful! thank you!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
You can use the calculator part to figure out the right dimensons to use if you wanted to crop, yes. Just enter a negative number in Step 3. I'm not really into cropping but you could easily look at the first two fields in Step 4 and enter the appropriate width and height in the Crop tool in Photoshop.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
There seams to be a bug in the update checking. Every time I start it I get the pop up that I should update and this text displayed
Deviant Bordermaker 2.00
Current Version Available: 2
Please update
I'm using Firefox 1.5 RC3
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Oops. Silly me. I forgot to update that part of the code. I fiddled with something on my end. You shouldn't get that error anymore. Looks like I forgot to tell the DBM that is version 2.00 instead of the older 1.75. that's why you were getting the pop up. Oh well, i can fix that for next version.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Thank you! Now scream it's praise from mountain side to mountain side. The more publicity the better!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It says:
Error 8: Syntaxerror
Line 2
-> #task photoshop
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Which version of Photoshop are you using?
Try opening the file Deviant Bordermaker.js in a text editor and remove the first two lines. Save it and try running the script again.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
CS
first two lines....
function CreateFolder(){
var paramsFolder = new Folder( path + "/Presets/Deviant Bordermaker");
?
👍: 0 ⏩: 2
The line # photoshop and the line above. I believe # photoshop is for photoshop CS2 users can double click on the script and it will automatically launch photoshop. Ofcourse, this wasn't around for CS, so it doesn't work. I think that should cure everything else.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
did you receive what I wrote afterwards? Line 38...
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I replied directly to that comment just now.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
i7em i7em
sorry guy's but how can i download it
i can't see the download buton
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Okay, did it, can open the box.
When I paste it pastes a * is that correct?
then it says
Error: 1233 Error: #1233
Line 39
-> open file (doclog)
or something like that.......
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Arg i tohught i fixed that. I guess not. OK back to the text editor.
Look for this line of code
code:EditText{bounds:[10,60,360,420] , text:'' ,properties:{multiline:true,noecho:true,readonly:false}},\
I have it on line 79 according to Dreamweaver. change noecho:true to noecho:false
That will get rid of the problem with seeing all stars, like a password field. that's what that code means.
Now try it again and see what happens.
If it still doesn't work try going to your main photoshop folder, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS for WIN and Applications-> Adobe Photoshop CS for MAC.
Go to your Presets folder and inside there you should see a folder called Deviant Bordermaker. Inside that folder should be a single txt file called DB-Write.txt If you open that up you should see the code you copied from DBM.htm. All Photoshop does is take what you have copied from Step 5 and copies it to this file where it can process it to find the necesseary variables. You are seeing that erorr because it is expecting to see the location of the file you want to use on the 2nd line. If there is nothing on the 2nd line (or a location that doesn't exist) then it shows you that error. You should be able to copy the text from step 5 directly into the DB-Write.txt document, save it and then run the script again and it should work.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Okay the stars are gone and error in line 39 still reeappears.
So even if it worked when I go to the textfile etc. it means I'd have to do it with each picture, correct? Which would take longer than typing in the canvassize I suppose
But thanks for your help anyway
👍: 0 ⏩: 2
Well after a long while I have finally createda fixed javascript. You can get here -> [link]
Just replace Deviant Bordermaker.js with this new one titled DBM-CS.js I tested it on my XP version of CS and everything worked fine. Give it a try!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks so very much, good to know, will hopefully try it soon!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Hmmm that is an interesting predictament you are in. I haven't heard of anyone else having problems with the script. I'll look into it and try to find a copy of Photoshop CS to see if anything is different from CS2. And you could always create a shortcut to the text file so you don't have to go digging all the time. Just a thought.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Thank goodness for your awesome utilities!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
And for the users who use them. Help spread the word!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This really sounds great, but for the non-photoshop users this version might not be that usefull...
I'm not saying this is bad - the updates keep getting better and better - but it really seems I have to get a photoshop software for myself
Keep rocking
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I know a lot of people use Photoshop to process their prints so it was the obvious choice to make a script for it. I am well aware that not everyone uses Photoshop and I was thinking about making a script for GimpShop but I need to familiarize myself with this open source program. What program do you use to make prints with?
And if you do end up getting Photoshop make sure it is CS2/CS or 7.0. Elements doesn't allow for scripting i believe.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I'm thinking of the CS versions, yes
Currently I use Paint Shop Pro 8
Thanks for the answer
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
wicked.... You got alot of diffrent talents... !
nice work!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks. I have lots of different ideas of things I want to do. I came up with some ideas for t-shirts that I think would sell well but I need to find a place like cafepress.com but better.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Sweet jumping catfish. This is incredible. You keep making it better and better. I don't know how you do it.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
This was my goal when I first started out with this project almost a year and a half ago. It feels good to have reached this point. But I can't really think of any ideas to expand upon. Maybe scripting for another graphics app like Gimp? That's the hardest part, coding for Photoshop was a real pain.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It would still be glorious if it could be run from an online site rather than from a local file. Is that just not possible? Maybe that's something that could be worked on.
I don't particularly think coding for other software is necessary. From what I can tell, the majority of Print Account holders use Photoshop for their images.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Yea it would be nice except browser's are sandboxed for the safety of the users. If I put this on-line, users would have to up-load the whole image to a server in order for it to read the dimensions of the file and other parameters. In fact, I wanted step 5 to be as easy as possible for the user, but it is exteremly difficult to get a browser to save data to a set place automatically like a cookie. Clearly through the years, internet security has been tightened to prevent malicious attacks that would occur (and rightfully so to protect everyone). The only way it can really be done on-line would be to code it in Java (which is different from javascript) If you have ever been on thefacebook.com and used there new picture uploader, you would see what I mean. But I don't know Java and a downloadable version doesn't seem to bother people. Afterall, the download is only 273kb.
Thanks for your continued interest I hope I didn't confuse you with my explanation.
Actually you could put the basic calculator on-line but I would need to modify it a little bit so the user could enter the image dimensions by hand and they wouldn't be able to preview the images at all. But other than that it would work fine since it is all javascript crunching numbers. Check out http://russellheimlich.com/test to see how it would work. Other than that it can read the location of the image and pump out the right data for the Photoshop script. Hmmm.....
Ok, one more thing and then I'll end this comment. I made an interactive pricelist which can be used online. http://russellheimlich.com/pricelist/ Not all of the numbers may be correct and there are still some bugs but I might continue to develop that so people can figure out how to set-up their prices. I posted a journal a while back and heard nothing back.
Ok thank you for your time!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Click the download to desktop button just below the picture. Enjoy!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It's ok. You're aren't the only one. Lots of people miss the download button.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
<= Prev |