Thank you Monika, yes haha automating has been forgotten, it is more of a complex challenge than I first expected. Appreciate the videos, I should be able to get a result from these. ... View more

Unfortunately not managed to fix the issue despite recalibrating monitors and checking the colour profiles - I have had no issue actually printing (thankfully) which was my main concern with the issue. As I breakdown my clients colours as part of proofing thankfully it's not been a major issue for me but I'm hoping to eventually find a solution and keep checking the forums for any similar complaints. ... View more

I think the trouble is perhaps you are expecting AI to generate an exact model of concorde. This is unlikely as it'll reference multiple images, you may only get a similar design.   You may be better off looking at stock imagery and using PS to manipulate into whatever scene or purpose you're trying to create. ... View more

Hi,   I am not a script writer but I tried your query in ChatGPT which has created some very basic functions for me in other apps successfully, whilst I do believe an actual script writer will get it done more accurately, here is the result.   // Photoshop Script: Progressive Black Pixel Effect #target photoshop // Define dimensions and pixel increment const layerWidth = 1943; const layerHeight = 194; const pixelsPerRowStart = 10; // Start with 10 pixels in the first row // Create a new document app.documents.add(layerWidth, layerHeight, 72, "Progressive Black Pixels", NewDocumentMode.RGB); // Fill the background with white const doc = app.activeDocument; doc.artLayers.add(); const whiteLayer = doc.artLayers[0]; app.activeDocument.selection.selectAll(); app.activeDocument.selection.fill(app.foregroundColor); // Ensure the black color is selected const black = new SolidColor(); black.rgb.red = 0; black.rgb.green = 0; black.rgb.blue = 0; app.foregroundColor = black; // Function to draw a single pixel function drawPixel(x, y) { doc.selection.select([[x, y], [x + 1, y], [x + 1, y + 1], [x, y + 1]]); doc.selection.fill(app.foregroundColor); doc.selection.deselect(); } // Generate and draw black pixels for (let y = 0; y < layerHeight; y++) { const pixelsThisRow = pixelsPerRowStart + y * 10; // Incremental increase in pixels const xPositions = new Set(); // Ensure unique X positions for this row while (xPositions.size < pixelsThisRow) { const randomX = Math.floor(Math.random() * layerWidth); xPositions.add(randomX); } // Draw black pixels for the current row xPositions.forEach(x => drawPixel(x, y)); } alert("Script finished! Check the created document.");   You would need to copy the above and save as a .jsx, then go to PS, File > Scripts > Browse and open the file you save.             ... View more

Sorry I forgot to mention that this is when viewing the "Save as PDF" result in Adobe Acrobat and when previewing on Windows. However, opening the PDF back up with Illustrator, the colour values are as the original artwork! ... View more

Many thanks Colin, spot on with this. I haven't explored GREP styles before but, did some searching, read some posts and visited the page above and with some tweaks to my copy of the data I've been able to get to my end goal.   Much appreciated! ... View more

Hi Joel,   Thanks for baring with, almost there. Correct on the data front, I'm using InD to add the border and categorising the colours by using columns in excel. The data screenshot in my above post is from my client is CELL 1 as they call it, which is column A-D in my reorganised data below it. Here's the full data from my clients end:     Your 3rd point seems it could be on to something but data merging isn't really my every day field and neither is Excel, it's more of a one off job that may reoccur, so trying to get a good process in, so I will look into that. I thankfully didn't single handedly type in the ranges.   I actually have 6 cells of data like the above, so I figured creating multiple INDDs would get a bit cumbersome if I was to make a file for each colour. The inconvenience is that although I want to group all the reds together, I still have to provide them to my client in cell groups - this is why in my excel sheet I have so many columns, essentially 1-4 for each 'cell+colour' and then each row is the actual data.     ... View more

Hi Robert, a real example is attached in the above and this is unfortunately the data I am working with. The 'samples' are to try and reduce the full range and samples but I appreciate that the post isn't clear. ... View more

Hi Colin,   Apologies i'm still not making sense, I'm struggling to explain the desired outcome. It's a bit more complex due to how the client wishes to see the final data, but I have x6 groups of variable data, that fits into 4 designs.            Above is a sample of the data sent to me, the full project makes 1085 individual prints. The way I've set up the data merge is as into 'cells' (C1 = Cell 1 as per client data). Then the various colours as below:   My final result for Cell 1 (uploaded PDF) works and matches my data, but ideally I need to get my document to have all red designs together, blue together and so on.    I will certainly take a look at your blog/CreativePro - as I believe that I'm going to end up getting lots of data that may have various designs such as this brief in future. ... View more

Hi Joel,   Many thanks for the reply - reading back at my post I will try to clear up what I'm suggesting. It would seem alternative pages likely isn't what I need to be using either so thanks again for that, but my intention was to group my results into colour results. This is what I'm currently getting after removing alt layouts:   Almost as if I want to change the data merge from reading coloumn by coloumn and instead produce a result row by row, so that all the red results are together, all the blue are together and so on. In terms of resultd Pg 1 would be followed by the data from Pg 5.   It's more a time saving question, as there's over at least 3000 individual items and as there are some empty rows in some columns, a few hundred more with blank results thrown into the mix, so I don't think I can change the format of my actual data.   ... View more