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Hi John,

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, it will not provide the square output I am seeking and crops off parts of the edges of some stamps.

I was wondering if I could add a special selection method to a Photoshop action to provide batch automation. As the position of the stamps on each sheet is roughly constant this did seem feasible.

However, I am now fairly sure this can't be done with the front images, as when I try to select the stamp images the quick selector gets confused between the black background and the postmarks on the stamps.

It is a different case for the back images (scan provided). With these, I can use the quick selector in the middle of each stamp followed by expand 20px to make a selection of the stamp with an even border (I still can't get the desired square selection using this method). I tried this as part of an action but it failed and stated that "The command "Expand" is not currently available", followed by "Could not complete the command because the selection area is empty.".

So to summarise, I can't find a way of creating a square selection and I don't seem able to incorporate a selection expand command into an action to allow batch automation.

Kind regards,

Paul