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Photoshop Actions - Is this possible?

Okay, here's what's going on.. I have a folder that has 200 images in it. They're all named - p001.png, p002.png, p003.png... all the way up to p200.png

I need to create an Action that pulls in 2 images at a time, in ascending order.

After Resizing & Positioning the images, I need to add text above each image that says "Image #X" (in place of 'X', would be the number of the corresponding image)

Once it finishes with the 1st two images, it saves it in a specified folder; and pulls in the next 2 images.

And just repeats the process until it goes through all 200 images.

Here's my 2 questions:

1 - Is it possible to pull in 2 images at a time in ascending order, from a specified folder, via an Action?

2 - Is it possible to replace 'X' with the image's number, as it moves up in ascending order?

Any kind of help with this would be Greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

p.s. I'm using PhotoShop cs5.5 if that makes a difference

Solution

  • First checkout the Contact Sheet functionality, perhaps you can achieve your tasks this way.

    In terms of scripting, there are indeed functions available to :

    • load a file into the document
    • create a text layer
    • set the text of the text layer

    Check out the Photoshop CS5 JavaScript Language Reference for more details. Additionally, you should have Extend Script Toolkit installed as well.

    Run Extend Script Toolkit then give this a quick go:

    #target photoshop
alert("Hello World!");

    Using the Object Model Viewer (available under the Help menu) you should be able to select the Photoshop Type Library and view useful available objects such as Application,Document,Layer, etc. and see their properties and methods. Additionally the Data Browser panel and autocomplete should help.