Batch compose 500 images together

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April 18, 2024
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Hi there,

in a kind of a desperate attempt, I'm trying to do the following:

I have about 500 photos and each of them needs one object from the same image composed on top.

I habe the objects seperated with tranparent background already.

So what I need to do is to load image 1 in Photoshop, load object 1 in Pohotshop and combine them together. That's not a problem with a recorded action.

But then I need to load image 2 together with object 2 etc., about 550 photos in total.

Is there any way to tell Photoshop to always load the next image and next object and repeat the same actions?

Thanks a lot for any ideas.

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Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@Dennis_K

There are scripts that can combine image A with image B, then image C with image D etc. from the same folder.

Or it could be image A from folder 1 and image A from folder 2, then repeat.

In either case, the script relies on the files having alphanumeric sorting to combine in the correct order.

Providing 2 or 3 sets of sample files and layered completed examples would help others to help you.

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Dennis_KAuthor

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That sounds like what I need.

I have All the images in folder 1 and all the objects in folder 2. The file names are from image 1 and object 1 are identical, the images are DNGs and the objects are PSDs. Could you point me to where I can find such a script?

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Dennis_KAuthor

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I'll try to provide an example of the images.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

It might be possible to do this using the Variables feature. Set up a variable for the layer that needs to be replaced every time, and if all the object files are in the same folder, you could just paste all the object filenames into one column of a spreadsheet (exported as tab-delimited or .csv) and Photoshop will go down the spreadsheet rows to load each object into the variable and export a file for each version.

For more info and steps:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-data-driven-graphics.html