Script or action for borders & sig in CS2?

Hi All

The reason I am asking the above is because 'normally' a lab print is done bleed edge and if you are matting and framing it is all too easy lose (I think?) those edge pixels that you included in the final size thinking the compostion looked just right.

So, is there a script or action for CS2 that will allow me to select my crop to say 8x10 add a sufficiently wide border for matting but make it wide enough to drop a sig copyright line into the lower border area - the sig need not be visible in the mat but if removed for illegal copying it would be obvious it was a copyrighted image. I suppose what would be good is to select the 'canvas size' e.g 8x10 and then drop the the image cropped or not onto it for resizing to fit within a suitably pixel reduced area to leave the border.......but I am loosing myself now in concepts I have insufficient grasp of with CS2.

I hope this makes sense and someone can either point me towards a script or action, I do wish to make the process as idiot proof as possible, or to a tutorial that will get me to making a suitable action.

I have Googled and good though I am at finding most things my 'phrase' searching is coming up poorly.

TIA

Mike's Framer is what I use. It was a good purchase. I think that's what you want. Search on that in here.

Hi

Yes, I saw a thread here about it and posted a question (or two) about its usage and potential. Just waiting on a little feedback before pushing the button.

I have made actions in CS3 that crop, watermark, copyright, resize, sharpen, border in different sizes and/or intensities depending on the image size in RAW or JPG. I duplicated them all to add "convert to 8 bit" and save as JPG, then again for a TIFF output.

Automating a lot of these tasks may seem boring at this point, but long term that are awesome. I'd love to see Adobe have a more robust action editor. I'd even pay for a third party one.

Making your own actions and incorporating scripting in them can be a GREAT learning experience. There are plenty of great scripts available on Adobe Exchange. EXIFborder can get you started...