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Not knowing where else to go, I am hoping the gurus here can help, or maybe point me to resource that could help me.
I have to prepare over 5000 images to be included in a DVD as a number of simple DVD slideshow tracks.
Instead of just having black as a background for any pictures that don’t completely fill the frame, I would like to use Photoshop to automate the process of setting levels, resizing and adding a background to the pictures to fill the black space, then flatten the image and save the file using the original name.
I have everything figured out EXCEPT getting a background layer added to picture.
i.e. I have a 640 x 480 texture image I want to use for a background for a portrait 300 x 480 picture.
Like I said, I got everything figured out except how to automate getting the background image into a layer or the target image.
If I use File>Open, Photoshop always wants to use explicit file names, which only works for the first image, and I need it to work for over 5000.
For example, I open my main image called "image09.jpg" and then open the texture image. I use duplicate layer on the texture image, but I then have to choose the destination "image09.jpg", which gets recorded into the action. So, if I try to play the action, it always expects "image09.jpg" to be the target.
Obviously, Duplicate Layer is not the way to go!
I hope I made sense. If anyone can help me out with the one step I’m missing (setting the background layer), I would be extremely grateful!!!
Dual G5 2GHz; Mac OS X (10.3.x); 512 MB RAM, 360 GB HDD
I have to prepare over 5000 images to be included in a DVD as a number of simple DVD slideshow tracks.
Instead of just having black as a background for any pictures that don’t completely fill the frame, I would like to use Photoshop to automate the process of setting levels, resizing and adding a background to the pictures to fill the black space, then flatten the image and save the file using the original name.
I have everything figured out EXCEPT getting a background layer added to picture.
i.e. I have a 640 x 480 texture image I want to use for a background for a portrait 300 x 480 picture.
Like I said, I got everything figured out except how to automate getting the background image into a layer or the target image.
If I use File>Open, Photoshop always wants to use explicit file names, which only works for the first image, and I need it to work for over 5000.
For example, I open my main image called "image09.jpg" and then open the texture image. I use duplicate layer on the texture image, but I then have to choose the destination "image09.jpg", which gets recorded into the action. So, if I try to play the action, it always expects "image09.jpg" to be the target.
Obviously, Duplicate Layer is not the way to go!
I hope I made sense. If anyone can help me out with the one step I’m missing (setting the background layer), I would be extremely grateful!!!
Dual G5 2GHz; Mac OS X (10.3.x); 512 MB RAM, 360 GB HDD
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