stefthetoolman wrote:
I have a group of JPG photos and I need to add the name of the person of each image and custom graphics (like an hockey card)
I have an Excel file with the filename of the picture and the name of the person.
Is there a way to do that automatically in photoshop ?
The answer is yes. To add a name you need a script. A custom graphic can be added with and action. You can record the use of a script in an action. There is no down-loadable script that I know about the will read a Excel. With a little work if you know some javascript there are some scripts that will add names to an image you might be able to modify. The Text added in these scripts is retrieved from either the file name or the Files meta data. If you export your Excel file to a text file you may be able to edit it into a dos Batch file the would rename or copy the image files so you have a group of file that have file names that are the persons name. Then all you need is the action you created that adds the graphic you want added that also runs the script to add a text layer that is the file name the persons name. Once you have this action you can use the Image processor scrip the ships with Photoshop to process all the images files setting up the image processors dialog to include this action.
If you want to do a graphic, just write an action within Photoshop using the "Place..." option under the File menu. Google it and it will walk you through it. It will allow you to run a batch on however many images you want and it will place the photo wherever you tell it to.
