Resizing with a border at 300ppi?

[Rob G]

What I thought to be a simple process has me puzzled. I am trying to create an action that will resize a photo to 4x6 and include an 1/8" white border within the 4x6 boundary, while not losing any of the original photo. The output of this file is desired to be at 300ppi. The original photos will be 1:1.5 (D70 sensor), yet will be much greater than 300 ppi.

I have tried several different methods, including attempting to first crop the photo to dimensions exclusive of the border, followed by expanding the canvas for the border, but I seem to always end up with the width of the top and bottom border not being equal to the width of the left and right border.

I have scoured the internet (including reading the border tutorial here at APF), but can not figure out how to do this. Will someone walk me through this? Shouldn't this be simple?:confused:

Rob

[paradise]

have you tried following the tutorial on the border, but making resize your last command in the action? With the "canvas size" command, you can click a radio button that will make it a ratio, instead of hard sizes, and you can say how much to add.

[jhoetzl]

Hmmm, I think I get what you want...here is a sample set of actions:

http://216.91.101.69/util/46action.jpg

It produces something like this (http://216.91.101.69/util/sample46.jpg)...

[Rob G]

I thank both of you! That was a big help.