: Photoshop Cropping - edge of image based on center selection I do bulk editing and would like to be able to record and automate a set of instructions that accomplish the following. Say I have

@Phylliss782

If all your images have the same kind of alignment then the process can simply be changed by adding one extra step.

Instead of focusing on cropping something that is off-center, and since Photoshop doesn't really have an intelligent AI for this, you should simply center the image first by increasing the size of the canvas THEN using the "canvas size" or crop to get your image centered and cropped to the size you want.

So find how much mm or inches you need to add to the left/right/top/bottom to make that apple centered, then do your crop or canvas size.

You can record your action once you've found the correct measurements and apply this to a batch process.

It does work, that's a method I used myself many times with actions and batch processing.

If all your images are placed in different positions then this won't work and I don't think there's any other way than the manual way in this case.

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I would like the only manual work to be creating the select box around
the subject matter.


If your big issue is doing the crop action, create a shortcut for it or even create an action to simply copy/paste that selection in a new canvas with the right size; it should automatically center it.

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@Megan533

Try using Image > Crop after you've made your selection.

You could also assign the Crop command to a keyboard shortcut to fire it off with just one key. (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Image > Crop).

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