: Fit non-transparent part of an image in photoshop I have a bunch of images that I want to re-size to make icons with. I have found these images on Google and they are all 512*512 images

@Cugini998

Trim all images' shadows
Resize all images to the same size
Make a Master file with:


Desired final size
Desired shadow

Combine the images that you want with the master file so the images will be on the top layer and the shadow layer in the back.
Now all the images will have same size and shadow.

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@Gail6891361

I'll give you a outline of what I would do.

First I would convince my client that this is a bad idea. But given that you probably have that covered; You wouldn't care anyway. People never do, untill they realize that scaling icons is never really a good idea.

Next I would consider something other than PS as this is one of those things where tools like, python, perl or Imagemagick may be better. If this wont do then i would consider photoshop scripting. The outline of the script would look as follows:


Select your transparency:


Save channel.
Run treshold on that.

Read the size of tresholded image:


Load selection.
Fill a new layer.
Querry new layer position plus height and width. No theres no rasy direct way to do this.

Padd with empty pixels where needed and crop.


Be prepared for 10-20% of images where this will fail.

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