Adding logos to photos in stack

[kennyray62]

I want to add a logo i made with photo shop on a group of photos the same size. Is there an easier way then the way I am doing it. This is how I am doing it: I put the photos i want to add a logo to in a folder. Next I go to scripts and l click on load files into stack, then i click on folders, and chose the folder i have my photos in. After it loads the photos into stack, I load my logo and move it over to the stack. Next i duplicate the logo layer for as many photos as i have and put a layer between each photo in the stack. Next i murge each logo down to the photo below it, one at a time. Last I click on scripts and then click on export layers to files. This does a very nice job, but it takes forever, there must be a faster way. If someone knows, Please, Please tell me,

Thanks,

Kennyray62

[xbytor2]

You can do this with an action.

First, open your logo.

Then start recording the action.

Open an image from the folder.

Switch to the logo, select all, copy.

Switch to the image.

Paste and do whatever resizing or arrangment you need to do.

Save the image.

Stop the recording.

Now that you have an action, you can use Batch to run it over a folder of images.

This only really works if all of the images are the same size.

[kennyray62]

I am lost. I don't know what you mean by recording the action. all the photos are the exact same size. If you can explain in more detail please? My logo is in a photo shop document it is a round image with my website name. It is in two layers a plain brown and then the logo which i move off the background and onto the photo.

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Kennyray62

[kennyray62]

Which work space do i need to be in to start recording? I can not seem to find it.

[kennyray62]

I figured out how to do it, it says the comand move is not avialible. You see problem is, from the time i got cs4 extented it does not open images in the own window i have to manual put them in there own window by click on float all in windows. I really dont like CS4, I cant get it to work like CS3. I think they really messed up this version. They should have left cs3 alone.

[kennyray62]

I tried to do it on my spare laptop, it has cs3 extended, but i ran into the same problem. It said move comand is not availible and it wont move the logo onto the photo. Any sugestions?

[kennyray62]

I figured out what i was doing wrong, I did exactly like you said select all and the copy and then click on the image and paste, then arraged the logo where i wanted it and then save and then stop recording. But when i did it in batch, it did not work? It put the logo and the first one and the put the second picture on the bottom of the first one and then just made 60 copies of the logo and only saved on pic with the second picture where the logo was supose to be. Its not working for me. Can you tell me how to set cs4 so when i open a photos they float in their own window instead of stack in the same window. I hate this, and my cs3 did not do this.

Thank you for your time,

Ken

[xbytor2]

But when i did it in batch, it did not work?

Add a final step into the action to close the image after it is saved. You may have to fine tune Batch settings a bit to get this all working correctly.

Can you tell me how to set cs4 so when i open a photos they float in their own window

Turning off this setting should do the trick:

Preferences->Interface->Open Documents as Tabs

-X

Message was edited by: xbytor2 damn jive UI

[kennyray62]

I already tried closing the image after, and it still does the same thing, I am not good enough to use or know how to fine tune the settings. Do you know of any tutorials i can read on how to do this? I am sorry for my ignorance on this subject. And as far as the open documents in tabs. I already had it set like that. This is what is checked in interface under panels and document settings:

auto-show hidden panels

remember panel locations

open documents as tabs

enable floating document window docking

It still does the same thing, is there any other settings i can try?

Thanks for all your help,

Ken

[xbytor2]

http://www.atncentral.com/ is a good site for actions. And they also have

The Mother of All Tutorials.

http://www.atncentral.com/zip/PhotoshopActions_ver1.1Btoc.zip

I am by no means a master of actions.

[kennyray62]

Thank you for all your help