PhotoShop action. Watermark.

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  • PyroVesten

    I _must_ be fucking stupid...

    I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong but it must be something simple. I'll cop out and blame a lack of sleep over my very big weekend rather than admit I'm a dipshit.

    Basically, I want to place a watermark with a Photoshop action (via PASTING what's in my clipboard which is the logo in question) in the bottom right of images and export them as jpeg.

    The one problem I am having is with placement of the logo.

    After some thought I came up with the idea that I would need to flip the canvas, make guides at 0,0, paste the logo upside down, align it to the guides then flip it back. The problem is that whenever I align the fucking logo with the guides is gives coordinates relative to the size of the image, not the guides. Basically it would work if all my images were exactly the same size but instead of registering 0,0 when I snap the logo to the corner point of the guides the action records something ludicrous like X 2.35cm, Y -0.35cm.

    I'm sure a few of you have come across this problem before and had the brains needed to overcome it so I beg for help :P

    It'll probably actually be quicker for someone to record and action (I just need to 'Paste image from clipboard into the bottom right of an image of any size' part) and point me in its direction than type out idiot-proof instructions but I will be utterly grateful for any help.

  • ribit0

    You can specify to reference from the bottom right corner in the Action options (like -10, -8 from corner)...works for any size image. Just set it up with any placement, then double click that part of the Action to edit the figures (I think it gives you radio-buttons to choose which corner).

    I was using seperate Actions for different sized images for 2 years before I noticed this option existed...

  • ribit0

    click on the Layer Position element of the Action.... it has drop down menus to select a few different corners/edges.

  • PyroVesten0

    I figured out an alternative (aligning layers...I thought of that first but for some reason I forgot I'd even contemplated it and moved on). Still, I can't edit those by double clicking but it doesn't matter now anyway..figure out how to edit action coordinates but I will blame that on my own retardation.

    Cheers anyway.

  • ribit0

    Hmmm.. it works in Image Ready (I didnt check Photoshop). Image Ready has more functions and a better workflow for batch processing images than Photoshop.... (for example, not sure if you can save Actions as Droplets in Photoshop?)