Creating images and automation

Hello,
I wanted to automate the creation of montages for my work. They work by having a black background with four numbered images per page. We have multiple pages and the image numbers increase.
Ex: Page 1 - images 1-4; Page 2 - Images 4-8; et
How difficult would it be to automate resizing the images, rotating them, and inserting them in the correct order/ space.
Currently we use photoshop for the process but it can become quite tedious.
Thank you

In this thread we have been collecting links to the various threads that mention some technique using the LV picture control.
Christian included an example to rotate a picture (rotate vase).
The link I included for the "CC and Freinds" emoticon tool...
inserts images into picture.
Resizing....
I think was handled by the new "scale image" for the picture.
so it is all there you just have to give it some rules and use the examples linked in that thread.
Ben Rayner
I am currently active on.. MainStream Preppers
Rayner's Ridge is under construction

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You seem to have no firm grasp yet on the concept of non-destructive image editing using Photoshop’s existing options, specifically Adjustment Layers, Smart Objects/Smart Filters and Layer Masks.
The Layers structure is a much more valuable tool than the History in my opinion.
Instead of applying an Adjustment or Filter destructively you might want to try applying it as an Adjustment Layer or a Smart Filter (either with its own Mask or on a copy of the Smart Object with a Layer Mask, because all Smart Filters applied to one instance of a Smart Object must share one Mask).
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Hi, I've got a couple of questions:
1)
How can I fully decompile classes, so with the
implementation of the methods? Is it always possible
to fully decompile a class file? When is it and when
not?You can always get a dump of the bytecode with 'javap -c'. If you don't want to figure things out yourself, try searching google for a class file decompiler, possibly a de-obfuscator.
De-compilation is completely possible if the original author wanted that, by including debugging information. Depending on the degree of such information and the amount of code obfuscation, the decompiled code may lack variable names, line numbers, field and method names, class names, and even code structure. Names and line numbers are usually not re-creatable automatically, since the information is simply lost, but you can replace them with your own strings when analyzing an unknown class file (using the correct tools). Re-creating the original code structure may work in some cases, but to me the general case looks rather close to the halt problem (i.e. not solvable).
Use a de-obfuscator, hope you've got good luck, and analyze the bytecode manually if that doesn't work.
2)
I aks this questions before, but I still haven't got
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which extends the java.awt.Image class, which has
abstract methods. How do these methods(for example
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100);
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reference!!! That's why Java was able to cast it to my
own cMyClass (not a problem to cast a null to
something else), but when I created a Image (by doing
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Modern systems are Database driven. Files are managed, Images imported, virtual versions, lossless processing and unlimited editing are the way forward.
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Apps like iPhoto, Lightroom, Aperture are the way forward - for photographers. There's the 20% of Photoshop that shooters actually use, coupled with management and lossless processing. Pop over to the Aperture or Lightroom forums (on the Adobe site) and one comment shows up over and over again... "Since I started using Aperture/ Lightroom I hardly ever use Photoshop any more..." and if there is a job that these apps can do, then the (much) cheaper Elements will do it.
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} catch (IOException e) {
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