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Relinking an image placed in a photoshop Action to another image

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December 7, 2018
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Hi,

I am running several actions in Photoshop and as a part of the action I place some external images into the main one.

Is it possible to relink it inside the action to another file? So that it places another file instead the one in the action?

I also want to rename some of the files being placed without breaking the action, can I do it without rewriting the whole Action?

Also what happens if I have to move this action to another computer, can I somehow relink these external files so that I can run the action on a different machine?

Thank you!

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JJMack

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Actions steps vary there are hard coded Photoshop Step, interactive Photoshop steps, Plug-in steps, steps and inserted menu items and stop steps. Interactive steps need your user interaction to make changes or accept the recorded setting. Normally action steps the the same thing every time. If you want your action to place in different files sometimes in a none batch process all you may need to do is make the existing Place steps interactive. Turn on their dialog by checking the step's dialog box in the action. The interactive steps will then open their Place Dialog setup to place the files recorded in the action step. You can accept this and place the file in or navigate to the file you want to place in this time. In fact you can duplicate the action and change the action name from ActionNameCopy to ActionNameInteractive and then turn on the Interactive action's Place steps dialogs. You can have your old Batch able action and an interactive action version.

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m90583877Author

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Thank you for the reply. Making the step interactive will however make the window pop up every time?

I am running the same action on several thousand files and want to run the same action on another machine, if I make the step interactive and change the file once will it then relink the whole action to this file? Or once I make it non interactive it will keep searching for the original file that was recorded in the action?

JJMack

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As I wrote you can make two action one you can batch and one that will be interactive for document you want to use different files with.

To re-link the smart object layer the smart object layer need to exist so its object can be replaced re-linked. That means done after you run you action placed in the file recorded in the action. A second proces done manually or via some automate Photoshop process. A second action or script to replace some layers objects. The layer would need to be targeted and then have their object replaced.

You do not want to have to re-link link smart layer object to a different file unless you know all the files the you will link have exactly the same Aspect ratio, size and resolution as the object being replaced. For all smart Object layers have and associated transform to size the smart object for the layer content. The Associated transform is not change if you relink replace the smart object layers object. During the Interactive Place step there is the interactive transform part where you can change the layers associated transform.

JJMack

cmgap

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Is it possible to relink it inside the action to another file? So that it places another file instead the one in the action? Have you tried to renaming the file exactly with the same name and replacing the one you had in the action?

I also want to rename some of the files being placed without breaking the action, can I do it without rewriting the whole Action? Try a test renaming just one of the files that you want the action to be applied to. It should work if the action recorded going into 'a folder' and applying it to the files are in that folder.

m90583877Author

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Have you tried to renaming the file exactly with the same name and replacing the one you had in the action?

I want to run it on another machine and the file path looks like this:

so i am curious if I will be able to run this action on another computer even if I copy all the files.

Try a test renaming just one of the files that you want the action to be applied to. It should work if the action recorded going into 'a folder' and applying it to the files are in that folder.

Sorry think I was not clear. I am placing one image into all my files and the image has a wrong name, so I am wondering if I can rename it and change the filepath in the action as i only rename it then photoshop action tells me the file is not found:

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