Automating a simple image editing task..

[feld]

Hi,
I need to a copy a rectangular center of one image (143 images of slightly varying sizes) and paste it into center of
another larger template image and thereby creating 143 new images. Is there any way one could automate
this using photoshop or anything else?.

[Charles]

Myself, I'd use PHP and the GD image library. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php .

I would do it in Perl, with the GD.pm module, but I can never seem to get it to work.

[feld]

Hi Charles,
Thanks, thats a wonderful idea.Unfortunately I just do not know how to install
gd in a windows machine WITHOUT administrator rights. Please suggest a fix or another non-commercial solution.
thanks again, feld

[Charles]

The GD library is non-commercial, I think. It came free with the free version of PHP.

http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Bu you'll need to configure the php.ini file to turn on the GD library.