How can I bulk add all my headlines to one png image?

[Guest]

After a full day of searching, I can't seem to find a software that can do this for me:

I have this slightly transparent png image:

And I want to be able to take a list of all (1000) of my articles headlines from my site, and batch add the text on this image. So that I can then have 1000 of these images all with different text on them that I can place on top of 1 background image in batch mode.

How can I do this?

[Stephen Marsh]

Try JJ's or my suggested action methods from this topic:

Under deadline and need script help in photoshop

or

Applying hundreds of different files as layers to a single base file. Automating it.

and

Auto saving hundreds of picture-in-picture batch/script help!?

[Stephen Marsh]

Variables…

Creating data-driven graphics in Photoshop

You would need your text file list containing all 1000 headlines.

However the issue will be multiple lines of text and or reducing font size or line breaks to handle overset/oversized content vs. the variable text template content.

So easy enough to automate part of the process, however automating the error checking or clean up process may be a little harder, however it would not be impossible I have done this before in a batch second pass after creating the merged files.

EDIT: Hah, there were no replies when I typed in my answer, it appears that others said the same thing too!