Auto Crop

Last updated on Oct 26, 2021 | Also applies to Creative Cloud for enterprise

Crop a group of images or photos to specified pixel dimensions (default sizes available) all at once with Adobe Sensei AI technology automatically identifying the focal points.

What is Auto Crop?

You might have many pictures that need to be cropped. Maybe you have hundreds of headshots that you need in different sizes for blog posts, social media, websites. Or you have product photos that you need to standardize for your product catalog and merchant store. Cropping these one at a time can be really time consuming and extremely tedious.

Now use Adobe's Auto Crop automation service to crop images in an easy-to-use workflow. You're not required to install any software or software license. And the best part is that this service uses Adobe Sensei to identity the subject of the image and attempt to keep it in within the frame.

Learn to:

Run the task
Save the task

Run the Auto Crop task

So, let's get started with using the Auto Crop task to crop some pictures.

In the Quick tasks section of the Project Aspen home screen, click Auto Crop.
Click Start and then Select.
Choose all the pictures to Auto Crop from:
Your work in your Creative Cloud account.

A Dropbox account.

Your desktop.

Your uploaded pictures are displayed.
In the upper-right corner, if required:

Click Clear all to remove all the pictures you've uploaded.

Click Add to add more pictures.
Click Next.
Now, select one picture (from the pictures that you uploaded) to use as a preview for this task. That way, you get a preview of how the picture looks.

Click Select.
From the pictures you've uploaded, choose a picture to use as a preview.
Now pick the size that you want to crop all pictures to.

(Recommended) Pick from the set of predefined sizes for social, web, email, and print.

Or, enter a custom width (W) and height (H).
Choose the cropped size that works best and then click Next.

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Choose one or more export formats.

You can choose mulitple formats. We will create copies for each format.

If you notice, the total assets displayed in the bottom right corner, shows the number of output files that will be created.
Once you're done, click Run task.
As soon as the task is complete, you'll receive a notification, by email.

To start a new task, click Return home.

To view the output of this task in Your Work, click View files.

Save the Auto Crop task

Save tasks that you'll perform repeatedly. For example, if you always crop images to the same size or sizes, you could save this task.

The first time you run the task, save it. We'll save all the configurations you've made. From then on, all you need to do is run the saved task and change the files to upload. All saved tasks are displayed in the Aspen home screen. So, when you're at the home screen, you can either choose to start a new task or re-use a task you've saved before.

As you proceed through the steps to run the task, you'll see a Save task button in the upper-right corner of your workspace.

Click at any point during the workflow.
Enter a name and, optionally, a description.

As you progress to subsequent steps in the workflow, we'll save any other configuration changes you make to the task.

As you progress to subsequent steps in the workflow, we'll save any other configuration changes you make to the task.
The next time you open a task you previously saved, you'll be prompted to choose if you want to use the previous set of assets or discard those are use a new set.

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