Best Practices for Automating Price Trend Charts in Photoshop for a Website

[YADDVE PANDY]

Hello Adobe Community,

I manage a construction materials website where we publish price trends for cement and other building materials. I’m looking for ways to streamline the process of creating professional, consistent price charts and infographics. Currently, we manually design them in Photoshop, but as our data updates frequently, it’s becoming time-consuming.

I’ve heard about using the Photoshop API or scripts to programmatically generate charts, graphs, or tables and export them as images. Ideally, I’d like a workflow where:

• Raw data (price trends) can be imported automatically.

• Photoshop applies a consistent style (colors, fonts, logos) to all charts.

• Images are exported ready-to-use for the website without manual tweaking.

Has anyone implemented something similar for dynamic data-driven visuals? Are there recommended tools, scripts, or approaches in Photoshop to make this efficient? Any tips on automating charts for frequent updates while maintaining high visual quality for my [Link removed by moderator] would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[Trevor.Dennis]

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[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

You can use Photoshop's Variables, AKA Data Driven Graphics:

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

There are script variants based on Variables:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/using-datasets/td-p/2665594/page/2#U1...

And there are scripts that perform similar tasks without using Photoshop Variables/Data Sets:

https://www.marspremedia.com/software/photoshop/text-update-from-csv

https://www.marspremedia.com/software/photoshop/variable-images-from-csv

https://www.marspremedia.com/software/photoshop/variable-images-advanced