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[kugykuzu60]

Thank you for your efforts.

[#3027 PL61 Hateruna] is wrong.
It is [#3027 PL61 Hateruma] surely.

And,
In order to make scenario "Senkaku_South China Sea", please add [OP-3C / Japan (navy)] to database.

[ColonelMolerat]

Chemkid -

That's a brilliant script, thanks for making it!

I have run into one problem though - if the pictures are of a certain dimension, then when it resizes them to the right height, they become too wide and extend over the right-hand edge.

Perhaps if the 'resize image' part of the action (that resizes the image to a height of 260 pixels) was a 'fit image' to 260x750 pixels instead, it might work even for images that are either too tall or too wide. You obviously know a lot more about Photoshop than me though so I could be on the wrong track. I'm testing it now and will say how it went in a little while.

[chemkid]

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[ColonelMolerat]

- Chemkid

I made a couple of tweaks the action you had above - I changed the 'resize image' to a 'fit-to-image' and changed the 'save as' to a 'save' (it was trying to save on your C drive).

I ran it on CWDB Line Images and it worked nicely enough, but CWDB Line Images doesn't have any pictures with particularly bizarre aspect ratios. I'm going to try it on the rest later tonight, but I've got to use Photoshop for 'sensible' stuff right now.

If my tweaks don't work, and the alternative is 3-5 runs with different aspect ratios using Dimensions 2 Folders, I'm going to say 'screw it' and stick with your original action - it works well enough!

Here's the edited action if you want to see it.

Cheers!

[chemkid]

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[ColonelMolerat]

No problemo! I'd never heard of it either until I started searching for a solution (it seemed like the kind of thing Photoshop should be able to do.).

You deserve 99.9% of the credit for such a fantastic Photoshop action!

I love how playing Command also enables me to mess around in Photoshop - I have a lot of fun creating overlays (though I had to take a bit of a break after getting a little too obsessed with updating a satellite map of one of the Spratlys...).

[1nutworld]

I'm "pretty sure" that the photo attached to #2383 Arty Bty (155mm/39 M777 Towed Howitzer x 6) Canada (Army), 2006 is not correct. In the DB 3000 photo image set the photo is labeled "Facility_2386_t1

Being former Navy and not familiar with every Army unit. [:)]

[MirabelleBenou]

With the help of the excellent work of the community (CV60, kgambit, ColonelMolerat & chemkid) I've put online all modified CWDB primary images.

I use ColonelMolerat & chemkid Photoshop action script and run it on all the images. It took a long time but you can get it here :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzoK_p ... sp=sharing

I've begun to run it on DB3000 but it's a bit larger and will take more time.

There is only the "primary" images, so you'll need to put asside the secondary ones if you want them.

Enjoy !

[MirabelleBenou]

And the one for DB3000

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzoK_p ... sp=sharing

[Gunner98]

Lots of photos of Canadian Army Equipment at the Link: http://silverhawkauthor.com/4-canadian- ... e_366.html

Some are quite good, some quite funny. The 1960's shiny kit!

The author has a sense of humor - his caption for this one is 'Slightly Stuck'

[Stardog765]

MirabelleBenou, these are awesome!

Thank you so much for everyone who was involved with making these. Great job!

[chemkid]

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[MirabelleBenou]

Thanks !

It seems to be an error in the CWDB images. The #2997 & #2998 seems to be the Bronco but it should be Mig-21 Fishbed.

[ShadowB]

Great work, everyone involved! The DB images certainly look more professional now. Not to mention JPG (and 7z) compression is more sensible and the whole package's faster to download and takes up 708 MB instead of over 2 GB.

I have noticed, however, that in the case of certain items, particularly weapons, the original image appears to have been disproportionately long, and therefore the processed image "in focus" portion overflows to the right. For example, Weapon_3011, Weapon_2767, Weapon_2803, Weapon_2249, Submarine_131, Ship_1491, etc. from DB3000. There's several instances of this within CWDB as well.

My recommendation, should it be possible to amend the script further, would be to place a width cap on processed images so that the in focus portion doesn't exceed something like 75% of the total image width. That would also allow the Command watermark to remain visible in all cases and provide more uniformity to the whole package. Some in-focus bits would end up shorter, height-wise, but not jarringly so, I think.

[kgambit]

Nice catch. The Aircraft_2997, 2998 and 2999 images belong in the DB3K database not the CWDB.

[Excroat3]

Quick question, is the CWDB line drawings zip supposed to be unzipped in the "line drawings" folder, even though that folder is inside the DB3000 folder?

[MirabelleBenou]

No, you have to use it in the CWDB folder, in place of the "standard" images.

Only images directly in the CWDB or DB3000 are used.

[Excroat3]

So you use either standard images or line drawings? There is no both?

[kgambit]

No, the line drawings and secondary images can both be used in conjunction with the primary images. The line drawings use a _t5 suffix in the file name to separate them from the other secondary images which use _t1 thru _t4.

We separated the line drawings and secondary images into their own downloads in response to concerns about the size of the image downloads.

[Excroat3]

Ok, that clears it up now, thanks.