Dr Brown's 123 processor

I realize this is possibly the wrong place to ask - but cannot find anywhere on Dr Browns site. I am having problems with PS CS5 everytime I try to use the Dr Brown's 123 script for resizing images from Bridge. I get the message
"Sorry something major has happened and I can't continue! Would you like to see more info"
If I hit yes I get a page starting with message
Error: Bad argument : Invalid resource format. Error in line 15, at character offset 1284, in '{ orientation: 'column', alignChildren: 'fill', spacing: 5, etc etc
Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution? The only way I can get the script to work is to close PS and start again from Bridge
Thanks

Someone at the Photoshop Scripting Forum or the Bridge Scripting Forum might have more insight.

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I have Photoshop CS6 with Russell Brown's Image Processor Pro installed.
I have the ongoing task of processing pics of different sizes and different width/height ratios.
I would like to get the following result using IP Pro (in collaboration with an action):
1. Downsize pic to 960 pixels wide (height doesn't matter, but needs to stay in ratio)
2. Watermark pic.
3. Save.
4. Creating a thumbnail of 320 x 213 pixels, without distorting ratio. This may mean downsizing to 320 wide with relative height, *then* cropping via Image-Canvas Size. Chopping a bit off is preferable to me than distorting the ratio.
5. Save the smaller version as 'Documentnamex' (i.e. adding an 'x' to the document name for the thumbnail.
I have 1-3 in an action and have used it for years.
But as for the task of a smaller thumbnail, kept in ratio but chopped and named with an x - I am stumped. I downloaded IP Pro for the task, but I can't get it to work.
If I save the original with IP Pro (at step 3), how do I then get it to make the thumbnail?
If I create the thumbnail in the action, *then* do 2 saves in IP Pro (thumbnail and 960 version), the bigger one will be pixelated (and no surprises there)
Summary: I want 2 watermarked versions:
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I copied that .jsx file to a new name "Xbytor Image Processor Pro.jsx" edit that file changed the string Dr Browns services to "Xbytor Image Processor Pro" then commented out all the code that added tools menu items but "Image Processor Pro" and I put that file into
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Dr. Brown's Image Processor Pro

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I appreciate your suggestions but after some further investigating, turns out the problem was Photoshop itself. I went to test a batch action in photoshop and found that "batch" under automate was greyed out.
Oinapea, if you see that your "batch" option is greyed out as well, try deleting your actions palette file. Should be in the same folder JJMack listed above: C:\Users\(insert username)\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Adobe Photoshop CS5 Settings
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-Noel

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Hi Noel,
I didn't see any signature in the package of "Russell Brown's Image Processor Pro script". What I got are 5 png files, 2 jsx files, 1 xml file and 1 mxi file( Are we talking the same sutff? ). All of them have nothing to do with signature. I think it is why you got the warning above. Anyway, if you are sure this extension is safe, you can click "Install" to ingore the warning message.
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Example: (processing images for web use)
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J

James, you said "my website provider places an upper limit on file size and dimensions per image."
Aperture does take care of half of that, the pixel dimensions. If it was me, I would test out a few images at various levels of jpg quality (5, 6, 7 etc.) and see where both the file size ends up and how the quality looks. Then, just go with one your favorite combinations. Images with more detail will be larger and images with less will be smaller. In the long run, it should even out. If you had the ability to request a certain size, some of your images may look good and others bad. Personally, I would be more concerned with quality than a few k of pixels.

Why Photoshop CC is taking so long to save PNG files?

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Hi Chris,
I'm not expert but I've just work on a great numbers on PNG so I really had time to "monitor" all from CPU / GPU using some tools from nvidia for GPU and ASUS (my motherboard) AI II + windows resource monitor...
I have bad news for you the CPU isn't use even in 30% - NO recorded activity over 30% when saving file... Checked about 100 times (as you know I have a thousands on images to touch and save as PNG so I have a plenty of time to watch the CPU monitors)...
In windows resource monitor appearing that photoshop CC "not responding" for a few seconds every time when I'm saving file...
Clearly - it's not CPU
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Batch Saving for Web over 10,000 images to their original folder in CS6

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I've been asked to help out a blogger who until now has accepted images to their size uncompressed of resized. We've got around the problem of the max image size by using the plugin Imsanity. Which has done a great job however what it doesn't do is resample the images for the web.
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Russell Brown's Image Processor Pro extension might do it. It has a Save for web option. You can run it for all folders in a folder tree. If folders are not all in one tree you might want a script to invoke image processor pro for each folder set. See <http://russellbrown.com/> and click Scripts, or direct to <http://russellbrown.com/scripts.html>. Scroll down to "Script: Dr. Brown’s Services 2.3.1."

Best way to batch resize images in nested folder hierarchy?

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In case of some file handling issues, Photoshop action throws an error & pauses/stops working, wherein we need to skip these errors manually.
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Tiger & Camera RAW for Canon Rebel XT (350D)

I'm trying to find out WHEN Apple will update either iPhoto or Tiger (presumably the latter) so that it natively reads Camera RAW for the Canon Digital Rebel XT (350D).
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http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
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http://hasselblad.co.uk/downloads/images.aspx
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Jeff,
Hasselblad's goofy file formats do things that DNG doesn't do and probably never will due to the reasons given by Mr. Knoll in a post seen further in this thread. Sure you can fix CA, Vignetting and Lens correcting perspective in Photoshop but in a much more laborious and probably inaccurate fashion.
I shoot tethered for the most part so I haven't imported from cards at all and don't know if DNGs are directly possible, but with my copy of Phocus (the latest until the new update that I can't wait for) you can still output to DNG. In fact in a way similar to Russell Brown's Image Processor you can output to a variety of formats in one fell swoop. Limited to two different formats at a time so far, but it has been suggested that more will be possible in the future.
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I thank Adobe for continuing to update their apps to work with the slew of options in the market today, certainly a daunting task. I hope that I will somehow be able to use ACR with my .fff files sometime in the future.
You may have negative feelings toward Hasselblad if I read your remark correctly but I thank them for forging ahead with Phocus and although it is very much a work in progress, it is a very nice piece of software in its current state. As with the continuous improvements we have all seen with Adobe's apps, Hasselblad with a much smaller audience is making the same sorts of incremental progress on their baby.
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Greetings,
Overall, I am pleased with Lightroom (LR) and do understand that this product is in the infant stages of development. I was a fan of the Raw Shooter program which was purchased by Adobe and serves as the basis for Lightroom. I look forward to the further development of this program.
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> I was a fan of the Raw Shooter program which was purchased by Adobe and serves as the basis for Lightroom.
Uh, no...you have that wrong. Lightroom (code named Shadowland) was under development since Dec 2003far before Michael Jonsson even left Phase One to start pixmantic...so, you kinda got Lightroom's origins wrong...and while it would be useful to get a better integration between Lightroom and Photoshop, Lightroom is being designed to accomplish about 80% of a typical photographer's workflow. Many people are finding less need for Photoshop now that they are working in Lightroom.
You would be better served outlining what exact functions you need to do that Lightroom isn't currently allowing you to do.

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