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james_rhoades_5924074

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Wed, Sep 11, 2013 5:01 PM

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Photoshop: Is there any way to set a crop size with Adobe Generator?

For example, if I have a PSD that is 32x32 (pixels) and I have an icon in a layer group that is 30x24 - is there any way to generate that asset at the 32x32 size?

Note that I don't want the icon scaled to 32x32... I want it centered within that area (exactly as it is in the PSD).

I haven't figured out any way of doing this, and the documentation is a bit sparse. If that feature doesn't exist, it would be extremely useful.

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tim_riot

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7 years ago

Hey James,

We're working on getting pixel padding functionality into the next release of Generator. Checkout the issue which tracks this on github, so you can see our work on it up to this point: https://github.com/adobe-photoshop/ge...

-Tim

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james_rhoades_5924074

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7 years ago

That's great news Tim. Generator is awesome by the way... has already saved me a ton of time. Thanks!

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pierre_courtejoie

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7 years ago

Photoshop CC 14.2 now includes pixel padding through layer masks.

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chris_herrmann_6920415

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6 years ago

I'm having a similar issue, I have assets that extend past the canvas size which i want cropped but generator saves out everything and makes my file wider than the canvas. So far my workaround has been to include a layer mask that covers the entire canvas. Just kinda messy and an extra step I don't like. Is there a better way?

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gafyn_townsend

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@Chris Herrmann not an ideal solution, but works for me - thanks for the info!

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elliott_294636

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5 years ago

Having the same problem, but the reverse, when assets are smaller than the canvas I don't want Generator to crop the canvas, but maintain the aspect ratio for every resize. Has a fix to this been introduced yet?
Thanks!

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JeffreyTranberry

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Add an empty mask to the layer. Does that do what you want?

Sr. Product Manager, Adobe Digital Imaging

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elliott_294636

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as in select all > mask? That seems to work. I guess that's the only workaround for now?

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JeffreyTranberry

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Correct.

Sr. Product Manager, Adobe Digital Imaging

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anne_mahoney

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How do you do this? I have tried layer masks and alpha channels and my transparent png's are still cropped.

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elliott_294636

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5 years ago

The layer mask thing does work for me when I want to add padding or not crop to the exact size of the image.

But I'm having the opposite problem now. I'm try to export a layer from photoshop as a PNG, and I don't want it cropped to the bounds of the document. My layer extends beyond the bounds of my PSD, but whenever it gets exported Generator is cropping the layer to the bounds of my PSD.

How do I get Generator to export the entire layer even if it goes out of the bounds of the document?

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designbooth_limited

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4 years ago

lame lame lame - I have just found adobe generator and the one thing everyone wants it to do is crop to the canvas size and it doesn't do it

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