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Here's a screen shot. You can see what the eventual image is supposed to look like (there's also one version with just the small jar, and one with the large jar), so each sweet type has 3 groups, and 4 layer images in total. And you can see the layers panel here.
As an added bonus, you can also see the steps in the action I've created.
I was actually very proud of myself. I was up . til 3am creating an action using really obscure keyboard short cuts that I had to look up, and theoretically it works perfectly. I even found some script that would then run that action as many times as I specified. And based on answers here, I was able to run my Save Groups To JPGs script as part of the action. But it gets as far as running the script, but the script requires me to set a save location in a dialogue box. While recording the macro, I did all this with keyboard shortcuts, but the action isn't picking any of that up. I tried experimenting just keeping to the defaults and pressing okay, but the action won't even click okay for it, I have to go back to my MacBook every 20 minutes to click okay manually.
Is this just a case of the script not being compatible with the action, and it never will be, or is there some secret I'm missing.
I appreciate the advice about Data Driven graphics, but that seems like another level of . learning beyond where I currently am. I can just about get my head around Actions, as I do a lot of work with Macros in Excel. This is almost working, and would work perfectly if it wasn't for that one step in the script.
I can not see all of your layers palette. So I do not know you template structure. However it look like you are trying the replace labels on two jars with the same label sized for the different size jars and warped perceptively onto the jars surface. If all output image are of those two candy filled jars with different labels all you would need is a collection of labels that have exactly the same Size, Aspect Ratio and Resolution. You could batch replace a top Smart Object Layers Object content and save an output image with each replacement . Two other smart object layers would share the top smart object layer's object and transforms and warps the object for two jars labels. No spread sheet or CSV file required. Just a folder of replacement labels a template and a script is required.
A script like this may do.
var theFiles = null;
try {
if (app.documents.length > 0)
{
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
try { var theName = myDocument.name.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1]; } catch(e) { alert(e); }
var thePath = myDocument.path;
var theLayer = myDocument.activeLayer;
psdOpts = new PhotoshopSaveOptions();
psdOpts.embedColorProfile = true;
psdOpts.alphaChannels = true;
psdOpts.layers = true;
psdOpts.spotColors = true;
if (theLayer.kind != "LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT")
{
alert("selected layer is not a smart object")
}
else
{
var folder = Folder.selectDialog("Select folder", "C:\\");
if (folder) theFiles = folder.getFiles(/\.(psd|tif|jpg|png)$/i);
//alert(theFiles.length);
if (theFiles)
{
for (var m = 0; m < theFiles.length; m++)
{
theLayer = replaceContents(theFiles
, theLayer); var theNewName = theFiles
.name.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1]; var jpegOptions = new JPEGSaveOptions();
jpegOptions.quality = 10;
jpegOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
jpegOptions.matte = MatteType.NONE;
myDocument.saveAs((new File(thePath + "/" + theNewName + ".jpg")), jpegOptions, true);
}
}
}
}
}
catch(e) { alert(e); }
if (theFiles) alert("Processed " + theFiles.length + " files");
else alert("No files found");
function replaceContents(newFile, theSO)
{
try {
app.activeDocument.activeLayer = theSO;
var idplacedLayerReplaceContents = stringIDToTypeID("placedLayerReplaceContents");
var desc3 = new ActionDescriptor();
var idnull = charIDToTypeID("null");
desc3.putPath(idnull, new File(newFile));
var idPgNm = charIDToTypeID("PgNm");
desc3.putInteger(idPgNm, 1);
executeAction(idplacedLayerReplaceContents, desc3, DialogModes.NO);
return app.activeDocument.activeLayer
}
catch(e) { alert(e); }
}
You would open your template output jpg files will be saved into the folder the template psd file is in. You can change the script if you want to save your jpg files else ware. When you open the template the top layer will be the current tagger so you can run the script and select the labels folder that has your labels. You can record actions that would open a template and run the script. Your template can have the 90 other layers what ever structure you need, Having the hidden top smart object layer just make it easy to replace the single object used. If you also want to automate different jar fill content that a different story. To may want to create a script to create template psd file the have jars with different content. Of has groups the have the different content in a single PSD template the you sane PSD file that have the label replaced the you can to selected which content you want visible. I created a Baseball Photo collage template where I can edit and change some of the saved output psd files to change elements in the baseball cards saved. Change which layer are visible.
My Photo Collage Toolkit Scripts place in image and resizes the placed in image to fill the images area and mask off any excess. The scripts can also stamp the image's filename on the populated collage. My scripts always saved PSD files populated with the images and optional text. Layer styles can also be added to the Images and text layers populated. So Template can be customized before being populated and populated template PSD files can be changed and tweaked easily with Photoshop. My Template are not populated using Replace Smart object layers content. Template do not contain prototype image. They just have alpha channels that map where image are to be located their size and shape. My scripts place in imaged and resize them to fill the mapped area, position to the mapped area and mask to the mapped area. Up to 53 images can be populated into a collage template for Photoshop only supports 53 Alpha channels.
I would like you to upload your mockup PSD file and Post a link to it so I can test with it. Also look at this append thread I started Today Long Winded Self Promoting The scripts UI looks like this.
I downloaded your PSD. It looks like you put all your eggs in one basket. While there may be some benefit doings so. I do not like that you carried that down further to the extreme of all your assist not in one basket but into one egg. IMO you would be better off resorting to the basket a folder where you can compartmentalize thing like jars, labels, Mockup Template, Output Mockup folders. You have all in one file a single point of failure. One egg to break. All you labels are in a single smart layered object where a smart object layer is a single layer. To get at your labels you have to edit the object and change what is visible. That e is a lot of editing even automated it will be a very time consuming. Next all your mockup are in layer groups in the psd and there some or the jar layers do not fill the 2500x2500px canvas. many of the jar layers you made into smart object layers. That just add overhead and increase file size. I do not believe you resize the jars layers. Having all mockups in one PSD file increases the of layers and make it harder to maintain, add complexity makes it harder to use and add time consuming work. It is relatively easy to open a 2500x2500px 240Dpi Document drag one of your layer group mock to it duplicate the smart object layer move it above the group delete the smart filters set it visibility off I would also set its fill to zero so you are sure it off even if someone turn on its viability. Or you could even just drag the one of the smart object layers out of the groul to be the top layer. My Script requires the top layer to be a smart object layer.
I did create three mockup psd files for you first three groups and cleaned out the layers in the smart object . I packaged it up for you to try it out download this Candy-Jars.zip
Nearly there then. I think I can work all that out. I doubt I can write the code to create folders automatically, but if everything is just ordered by label name, then I'll be able to find them in big chunks in the folder, and it won't be a big job to grab them and drag them into their appropriate folders.
But before I can play with that, I've tried to test the code as is, and produce the images that you have. It will run now, and doesn't get stuck at that line, but I'm still having a couple of issues:
1) when the dialogue box pops up, the first two buttons ('Select' and 'Browse') won't work, so I can't select the files I need. The second 'Browse' button does work though. I am able to just copy and paste the file paths from Finder though, so it's not a big problem.
2) If you can see in the screenprints below, something hasn't gone quite right. It's ended up saving the warped labels, but not with the sweets.
3) Will I have to run this script individually for each mockup I make. The dialogue box asks me to select a mock up file, rather than a folder, but there's going to be 84 of these (and another 15 varieties that I've got to add next week, so 45 more images), so that's still going to end up being a massive job. Would it be possible to select a folder with all the mockup PSDs in, then it runs them through one at a time?
Edit the PCTpreferences jsx fule make sure to set default folders the are on youry machine for where Mockup templates and source image files are. My defaults are on my E: drive you may not have an E: drive
//var templateFolder = "C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop Templates/";
var templateFolder = "E:/Public Files/Pictures/Adobe Photoshop Templates/";
//var imagePath = "~/My Documents/My Pictures/"; // Windows XP
//var imagePath = "~/Pictures/"; // Windows 7
var imagePath = "E:/My Files/Pictures/";
The buttons in the dialog should work if you are on Windows and may also work if you use Mac OSX. The Select button should open a file selection dialog that you can select your Mockup.psd file. The two browse buttons should open a folder selection dialog so select you input and output folders.
The Script is not coded to be a Photoshop plug-in therefore, you can not record using it in an action that will have the mockup, input folder and output folders recorded into the Action script steps. Even if it was a plug-in you would need to record 84 script mockup steps.
To automate all your mockup as a single job using file system structure I setup for your Candy setup would requite changing the Script dialog and adding a little more code That would not be hard to do. The new interface would change the select mockup PSD to browse to your template folder to select the folder of templates. In you case there is just one label input folder and one output mockup folder that would be used with all your mockup templates. The script code would simply process the each mockup psd file using the existing code. An additional loop would need to be added. the process all the psd in the folder. For your setup. IMO its not a general solution it a solution for your custom setup. If you want the solution you would need to learn a bit about coding a script to be able to modify the script dialog code and also add the process psd loop for your custom setup
I made a performance improvement in the scripts and repackage the candy-jar package. COPY THE 3 SCRIPT TO YOUR PHTOSHOP'S VERSION FOLDER PRESETS\SCRIPTS\
Okay, so that will help it to remember the place I last selected a mock up template from, but not do anything regarding cycling through all the mock ups.
Looks like it might be back to the drawing board then, which might mean learning how to write the code to loop it 
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