Creating square thumbnails from both landscape & portrait images

I make regular use of a Flash image gallery that requires me to provide small square 50 x 50px thumbnails whatever the shape of the original images. The only solution I have found so far is to first manually sort my original images into landscape and portrait folders and then run a different action on each folder to create the thumbnails.
Is there any way to design an action that would work equally well on both landscape and portrait images?
David

he will do a centered 1;1
David C Anderson wrote:
JJMack,
I am confused. You said that your CraftedActions package has a plug-in script you can use in Actions to do a 1:1 center crop and you said the name of the relevant action was AspectRatioSelection. I have loaded CraftedActions into Actions but cannot see anything called AspectRatioSelection. Please clarify.
There is no Action for cropping. There are 12 scripts in the package *.jsx they go into Photoshop's scripting Path. Like PSversion\presets\scripts\
On of the scripts has the name AspectRatioSelection.jsx it is a Plug-in script it does not crop it can set AspectRatioSelection and make AspectRatioPath they can be rectangular or ellipse. You can record a Cropping action using it. Takes two steps.
Step 1 menu File>Automate>Aspect Ratio Selection... in the dialog set it like this
Follow that step with Step 2 menu Image>Crop
That will do the largest 1:1 centered crop possible. You can follow that with a Image Size or Automate fit image and set width and height to 50PX
That would look like this note red checks I turned off the fit image step

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Of course I could place them manually, but I may need to fill an area with thousands of these, and even if I did place them by hand, it wouldn't be very flexible as far as reshaping/resizing the tiled area, etc.
I'm trying to do this with Illustrator CS6 if it helps. Thanks in advance for any help!
-Greg

Mike Gondek wrote:
Does this help?
Not in any way I can see. That (basically) just downsamples the selected image to create a tiled look that mimcs the original image. I need to fill a space exactly like a pattern would, but with each tile of the pattern being randomly selected from a set of images.
For clarity, here's a full example:
Given these three tiles:
Fill a space with random tiles to generate something like the following:
Note that in the above example, I did the placement by hand, which is both tedious and probably not very random on a large scale, nor flexible at all for different fills or later modification.

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I want to create a thumbnail image from flv video file.
I am reading the flv file via FileInputStream as a byte array and i try to create a image file from that array. But i get only Block Image. Is there anyother way to do it
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Hi all,
I need something like a hundred different thumbnails from each image in a series of images, that is, hundred random sections of the same image, saved in a folder as jpg, and i was hoping that i could find a script for this.
What the script has to do is:
select the size of the crop (this would also be the dimensions of the thumbnail saved)
rotate crop selection in a random orientation and place the crop randomly on the canvas
save the image as a jpg in a folder
return to original image,
repeat process x times before quitting script.
I dont think this should be to difficult to make a script for, but unfortunately i don´t know how to code.
Is there anybody that could help me with this?
This would save me a lot of time!

You can give this a try:
// create copies with pseudo random clipped and rotated parts of image;
// thanks to xbytor;
// 2012, use at your own risk;
#target photoshop
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var originalRulerUnits = app.preferences.rulerUnits;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.POINTS;
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var diagAngle = angleFromRadians(Math.acos((theWidth) / (theDiagonal)));
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var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var docName = myDocument.name;
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var docHeight = myDocument.height;
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jpegOptions.matte = MatteType.NONE;
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var origResolution = theCopy.resolution;
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var docHalfWidth = theCopy.width / 2;
var docHalfHeight = theCopy.height / 2;
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theCopy.resizeCanvas (theWidth, theHeight, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
var theHistoryState = theCopy.activeHistoryState;
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for (var m = 0; m < theNumber; m++) {
var theAngle = Math.random() * 360;
theLayer.rotate (theAngle, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
//theCopy.resizeCanvas (theWidth, theHeight, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
// get tolerance offset;
var theHor1 = Math.abs(Math.cos(radiansOf(theAngle + diagAngle)) * theDiagonal / 2);
var theVer1 = Math.abs(Math.sin(radiansOf(theAngle + diagAngle)) * theDiagonal/ 2);
var theHor2 = Math.abs(Math.cos(radiansOf(theAngle - diagAngle)) * theDiagonal / 2);
var theVer2 = Math.abs(Math.sin(radiansOf(theAngle - diagAngle)) * theDiagonal / -2);
// calculate max offset for unrotated overall rectangle;
var thisHalfWidth = docHalfWidth - Math.max(theHor1, theHor2);
var thisHalfHeight = docHalfHeight - Math.max(theVer1, theVer2);
// calculate random offset for unrotated overall rectangle;
var randomX = thisHalfWidth * (Math.random() - 0.5) * 2;
var randomY = thisHalfHeight * (Math.random() - 0.5) * 2;
var aDiag = Math.sqrt (randomX * randomX + randomY * randomY);
var anAngle = angleFromRadians(Math.asin((randomY) / (aDiag))) + theAngle;
anAngle = anAngle + Math.floor(Math.random() * 2) * 180;
// calculate offset for rotated overall rectangle;
var offsetX = Math.cos(radiansOf(anAngle)) * aDiag;
var offsetY = Math.sin(radiansOf(anAngle)) * aDiag;
//alert (theAngle+"\n\n"+offsetX +"\n"+ offsetY+"\n\n"+ thisHalfWidth+"\n"+thisHalfHeight);
theLayer.translate(offsetX, offsetY);
theCopy.resizeImage(undefined, undefined, origResolution, ResampleMethod.NONE);
theCopy.saveAs((new File(docPath+"/"+basename+"_"+bufferNumberWithZeros(m+1, 3)+".jpg")),jpegOptions,true);
theCopy.activeHistoryState = theHistoryState;
// clean up;
theCopy.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
app.preferences.rulerUnits = originalRulerUnits;
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function radiansOf (theAngle) {
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function angleFromRadians (theRad) {
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////// buffer number with zeros //////
function bufferNumberWithZeros (number, places) {
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                    theNumberString = String("0" + theNumberString)
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function smartify2010 (theLayer) {
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          app.activeDocument.activeLayer = theLayer;
// process pixel-layers and groups;
      if (theLayer.kind == "LayerKind.GRADIENTFILL" || theLayer.kind == "LayerKind.LAYER3D" || theLayer.kind == "LayerKind.NORMAL" ||
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      theLayer.kind == "LayerKind.TEXT" || theLayer.kind == "LayerKind.VIDEO" || theLayer.typename == "LayerSet") {
                    var id557 = charIDToTypeID( "slct" );
                    var desc108 = new ActionDescriptor();
                    var id558 = charIDToTypeID( "null" );
                    var ref77 = new ActionReference();
                    var id559 = charIDToTypeID( "Mn " );
                    var id560 = charIDToTypeID( "MnIt" );
                    var id561 = stringIDToTypeID( "newPlacedLayer" );
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////// get an angle, 3:00 being 0˚, 6:00 90˚, etc. //////
function getAngle (pointOne, pointTwo) {
// calculate the triangle sides;
          var width = pointTwo[0] - pointOne[0];
          var height = pointTwo[1] - pointOne[1];
          var sideC = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(width, 2) + Math.pow(height, 2));
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          else {theAngle = 180 - (Math.asin(height / sideC) * 360 / 2 / Math.PI)};
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