Is there a way to embed the Title metadata field in a text layer?

[Bazsl]

Is there a way to put something like {Title} in a text field and have the contents of the Title metadata field displayed? I am looking for a solution that does not involve scripting. Thanks.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Without scripting, no.

What's the problem with using a script?

[Conrad C · Accepted solution]

If by “text field” you mean in a delimited text file outside Photoshop, and by “displayed” you mean as a type layer in each Photoshop document, then this might be possible using the Variables feature.

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

If you want to enter the text into the metadata of the image itself, and then have that text displayed over the image, I don’t think there is a way Photoshop can do it. But if the images are loaded into Lightroom Classic, the LR/Mogrify plug-in can display the text of a metadata field over the exported copy of an image, and it can export those in bulk:

https://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrmogrify2.php?sec=quickguide

(scroll down to the description of Mogrify Text Annotation)

In your example, you would add the metadata token {title} when setting up the plug-in, so that it would show the text from the Title metadata field.

[Bazsl]

Sorry, I meant test layer, not text field.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Sorry, I meant test layer, not text field.

By @Bazsl

And by test layer, I presume that you mean text layer :]

[Bazsl]

Nuts! I meant text layer. Can't type today.

[Bojan Živković]

@Conrad C is referring to the type layer, but what he means is the text layer.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

This is much easier in XnConvert:

https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/

[Lumigraphics]

Its trivial with scripting. Otherwise i suppose there might be a watermarking app that does this.