Photoshop Datasets: Changing the output name according to a variable in a dataset
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I have a simple PSD: Background and 2x text layers.
One of the test layers is a date (month in this case).
I am happy using datasets at a basic level - and I can output 12x PSD files - with January, Febuary, March etc automatically changing.
BUT.
The output file names are along the lines of:-
Best_of_DataSet1 (which has changed, internally to January)
Best_of_DataSet2 (which has changed, internally to February)
Best_of_DataSet3 (which has changed, internally to March)
What I want is to have file names automatically come out as:-
Best_of_January
Best_of_February
etc
Imagine you were going to output 'personalised certificates' for 100 students... you would want their names in the PSD name, right?
Am I missing something?
Is this really simple?
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When you first link up the spreadsheet you can elect to use the first column as the data set name, then use the appropriate option when saving out the files. I have attached a couple of screenshots:
In the above example, the files produced were:
Name One.psd
Name Two.psd
etc
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THANKS STEPHEN 🙂
Great explanation - made it simple

