“Resize Image failed to evaluate height”

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Hello,

I am trying to make a macro that resizes a batch of images in a folder to be width RAND(493,929).

Currently, when I run the macro I get the error “Resize Image failed to evaluate height”.

However, I do not want to change the ratio of the images and so therefore don't know what to put into the Height field of the “Resize Image” action.

How can I alter the width of these images so that their height is automatically adjusted in accordance with the width in such a way that it doesn't squash or stretch the image?

I've attached my failed macro below.

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Thank you,
Chris

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Hi Chris,

The height field is currently blank, which is why it's failing to evaluate the height. My suggestion is to set the width as a randomly determined variable and the height as the ratio you want of that variable, then use those variables in the resize image fields. Here's an example to get you started; if all works as planned, you should just need to tweak the output path and the height ratio to get what you want.

Resize All Images in Folder.kmmacros (6.0 KB)

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Thank you for your time gglick, setting it to a variable is a good suggestion and start.

One issue I can envision with that though is that the image width to height ratio can be different from one image to the next, and so the multiplier 1.33 would still squash/stretch some images in the folder.

Any idea how to get around that?
Chris

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Okay, now that I've had more time to think about and experiment with this, I believe this will do the trick better:

Resize All Images in Folder 1.1.kmmacros (9.6 KB)

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image.jpg1198×4754 749 KB

This macro should

  • Look at all the files in the folder set in the initial For Each action
  • Read the ones that are images to a named clipboard (Image Clipboard by default)
  • Divide each image's width by its height to get that image's exact ratio
  • Use that ratio to set the image's height against the randomly determined width
  • Write the resized file with a suffix ("_Resized" by default) as either a PNG or JPEG depending on the original file's format
  • Display a notification when all files have been resized

If you need it to account for more or different file formats, you can change that in the Switch/Case action near the bottom; hopefully it's self-explanatory enough to figure out how to do that on your own.

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Hi @gglick

Sorry for the slow reply. Just wanted to say I've been using this macro for the last few days and it works perfectly.

A great asset to have in my macro library!

Thank you so much for taking the time to help me with this.

Chris

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Glad to hear it! I don't typically have a reason to work with images, especially ones that need to be randomly resized, so this was a fun exercise for me too.