How I Taught Photoshop to Do My Job (And What Happened When I Let It)

How I Taught Photoshop to Do My Job (And What Happened When I Let It)

There’s a specific kind of misery that comes from doing the same crop 200 times in a single afternoon. I know this because I lived it, about fifteen years ago, sitting in a commercial studio in Chicago resizing product images one by one because nobody had set up a proper batch system. By image 140-something I started doing the mental math: at roughly 90 seconds per image, I was burning through time that could have been spent on literally anything else.