photoshop Actions
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- ganon
i want to add a logo to the top left of about 1000 jpgs...but these jpgs have different heights, and this causes alignment issues when i run the action...i tried to paste the new logo, select all, then align topleft...but during the recording process, it doesnt record the alignment...can this be done...?
- atomica0
Paste, then Edit-> Transform, then make it place it on x: 0 and y: 0 or whatevers speciic for the logo. should work.
- Bio0
when you make your action, start it by Placing the logo.
File > Place
then in the options box, you can specify the x, y coordinates.
i'm using PS 7 now, but i think it works the same in CS.
hope that helps ya!
- Bio0
er uhm... a little too late. BLAST YOU ATOMICA!
heheh
- ganon0
thanks guys, but i tried that and it still get out of alignment if one of the images in the batch has a different height than the original...very frustrating....
- dopepope0
there's no way to specify one inch down from top, no matter how high the top is? I'm interested if this can be done.
- atomica0
how can it be not aligned, if you want it top left, thats where the x and y coordinates start.... ? maybe i misunderstand that all....
- ganon0
it looks like the action records the movement to x0 y0 under the title of "translate" instead of "position"...therefore, you place an image, it comes in centered at x0 y54, you move it to x0 y0, thats a -54 ymovement...thats what the action records...shit....
- ribit0
You can record the placement of a layer to any absolute location relative to any corner... (at least you can in Image Ready)
You can also double-click the individual action step to choose which corner to offset from, and how many pixels offset you want, without re-recording the Action.
So you shouldnt have problems dealing with varying size images. (We pin a logo to the bottom-right of varying height images this way...works fine.)
- ganon0
great ribit, imageready does do better with alignment...but there is not automate-batch command...so you have to open the images individually...?
- ribit0
It has better batch automation than Photoshop... just a different (better) interface for doing it...
You record an Action in the Actions pallette, then you can save it as a Droplet, so you can just drag files and folders onto your various saved Actions. You can also double-click Action Droplets to edit their parameters anytime.
- ganon0
thank you ribit, droplets good....