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Error. And thank you if you manage to fix this. I have 60 JPG and PNG that I need to use as masks in artboards, I can't do this by hand....
As a proof of concept. Please review the following layer panel screenshot:
There were 4 separate input images. This could be 40 or 400 etc.
In this case, they are all the same pixel dimensions.
All 4 input files have all been stacked one on top of the other, each file as a separate artboard.
Is this what you are looking for?
If so, I have a different scripted solution that I just hacked from another script.
Is this worth persuing?
What about the artboard names? What about the layer names? What else don't I know, that I should know about this project if I do decide to invest my time into developing this further?
// Stephen Marsh
#target photoshop
if (app.documents.length === 0) {
(function () {
// Capture original ruler units and set ruler units to pixels
var origUnits = app.preferences.rulerUnits;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;
// Open the input folder
var inFolder = Folder.selectDialog('Please select the input folder:');
// Test if Cancel button returns null, then do nothing
if (inFolder === null) {
app.beep();
return;
}
// Supported file formats
var remainingFiles = inFolder.getFiles(/\.(jpg|png)$/i);
// Alpha numeric sort
remainingFiles.sort();
// Process the first file
var firstFile = app.open(File(remainingFiles[0]));
app.activeDocument.duplicate("Artboard Stack from Files", false);
firstFile.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
var artboardStack = app.activeDocument;
app.activeDocument = artboardStack;
// Rename the duped layer back to "Background"
artboardStack.activeLayer.name = "Background";
// Call the artboard function
artBoardFromLayers();
// Process the remaining files
for (var i = 1; i < remainingFiles.length; i++) {
var openFiles = app.open(File(remainingFiles[i]));
// Dupe the other layers to the combined doc
openFiles.layers[0].duplicate(artboardStack, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);
openFiles.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
// Call the artboard function
artBoardFromLayers();
}
app.beep();
alert('Stacking files to artboards completed!');
// Return the original ruler units
app.preferences.rulerUnits = origUnits;
// Functions
function artBoardFromLayers() {
app.runMenuItem(stringIDToTypeID("artboardFromLayersEvent"));
}
})();
} else {
alert('Please close all open files before running this script...');
}
31st July 2021 Update:
I made modifications from the basic unpublished 1.0 version of this script in the following topic thread:
Combining Mulitple Photoshop files into 1 Photoshop file with Artboards
What I do is offer custom sets of overlays for ECAMM and OBS users. Currently, I have 100 overlays in Inkscape but that program doesn't support artboards so I have to export each individually as PNG. I exported them black and white all of them as png, and I want to import them in photoshop as individual artboards, one next to each other and then create one smart object in each artboard but the SAME object (background) and then each of my photos will be used as a mask to mask out the transparent sections fro camera feed. So end result would be someone asks me to make him a pink overlay set, I go to a smart object, make it pink, export all artboards as png overlays. Speed up the process. I can make a background photo or anything. In smart object.
And also there is no way to convert all jpg files in one folder to png with photoshop? I tried action but it just gives me psb or jpg again.
By @Marinapomorac
You can create an action for use with the Batch command.
Or use Image Processor Pro or Picture Processor JavaScripts.
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