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Yep. GraphicConverter can even batch images with a border or margin of any pixel width you choose. GC can batch entire folders, selected images or single images and you can save your settings for easy repeats.

Wiffy wrote:

Oh yeah, Graphic Converter! I forgot about that thing. I'll go check it out. Thank you both so much!!!

I am pretty sure you need to pay for GC to activate the automation. I'm not sure because I have been a registered user since 1995 so I dont actually know how it works in demo mode.
I strongly recommend taking a half hour or so and really giving the GC users manual a good looking over. GC is  extremely powerful but few people actually know all the things it can do.
It doesnt help tat the interface is a bit thick at first glance. GC has accumulated so many abilities over the last 15 years or so that it has kinda grown into a bit of a monster. A good monster but a monster none the less.
So there is a learning curve to climb. The best plase to start is to open a folder of images in the browser, that mode directly exposes more tools than any other.

Last edited by Pariah (2008-06-14 10:01 am)

Photoshop 7 is incompatible with an intel iMac ?

jerr3d wrote:

Photoshop 7 is incompatible with an intel iMac ?

it is a 6 year old program

Wiffy wrote:

Yeah, I can find the border feature but it doesn't seem to be on the list of automated commands. However, the simple fact that I can make a border (and much more easily than I ever could in Photoshop) is a point of relief for me.

Go to the Batch menu at the top of the browser, pull it down and at the bottom is "Define Batch". Select that and in the window that pops up look for the "Add/Delete Margin", add that to the batch list, in the feilds for defining the margin positive numbers add a margin to the outside of the picture, negative number make a border inside the image.

You could also have a look at pixelmator, it's very nice apart from a slightly unreadable interface. Very much a photoshop clone.

zoees wrote:

Uh- I think you can probably pick up a copy of CS2 Photoshop fairly cheap these days and the return will certainly be worth it.

I print for people as a living and whenever I receive anything "designed" by anything other than Adobe's products I just cringe. I'm no fanboy but Adobe is reliable and consistent.

I would agree but unless someone is preping graphics for the press Photoshop is likely going to massive overkill. Particularly when such a excellent subset of Photoshops features is available in Elements.
I keep checking TheGIMP about once a year but as long as they stick with that retarded multi-window, context menu centric UI I doubt I will ever find it very inviting. Its kinda like a car that you steer with your feet and operate the brakes and accelerator with your hands. Everything is all assbackwards.