Photoshop Actions

[Joony]

Greetings All,

I'm trying to make a action to use in Image Processor for Photoshop CS3 that will watermark all the photos I shot at school. My current action works only on photos shot horizontally, so when it runs on a vertically composed photo, the watermark is placed outside of the bounds based on what the action recorded.

The watermark goes on the bottom right corner of every photo, and based on the ruler, that bottom right corner has different lengths based on the image size. The watermark is also another smaller logo gif file that I use to 'Place' to put in the document.

Does anyone have an idea?

Screen shot of current action

 

[911paramedic]

I just make a watermark pattern and paint with it. It can easily be done with an action after you have the image setup.

It seems like a watermark in one little spot could be cropped out too easily.

EDIT: I just may learn a trick in this thread. :thumbsup:

(you should probably be in Software for Windows though.)

 

[Joony]

For those wondering about my work flow, I use Adobe Lightroom and export all my photos to 776 x 776, so that makes any photo at a maximum of 776 in length, horiz. or vert, in addition to maintaining the aspect ratio.

Before putting them up on the web, I'd like a 1 white pixel stroke all around, then another 11 black pixel store all around, for a size of 800 pixels, horizontally or vertically in the end. That action works fine for vert. or horiz. photos, but when it gets to placing the watermark gif, no go

911, the purpose of my watermark is not to 'protect' the photo, but to identify the people it was shot for.

Edit: Whoops, I misplaced post, mod, please move to software for windows.

 

[EGGO]

There's no need to do that. Go to File > Automation and it will be somewhere in there. I used it to put watermarks on my photo flash page: here's some examples to see it work with horizontal and vertical photos.

I don't remember exactly what you have to go to, and I don't feel like waiting for Photoshop to load so you have to look and explore the options under what I gave you.

 

[paulney]

I have an action that does what you need to do.
It creates a frame, and places my logo in the bottom right corner.
You can download it at http://www.pneyman.com/downloads/

Look at source code and adjust it to your needs.

 

[ZOXXO]

Change the ruler from pixels to percent, then record the action again.

 

[Joony]

Originally posted by: paulney
I have an action that does what you need to do.
It creates a frame, and places my logo in the bottom right corner.
You can download it at http://www.pneyman.com/downloads/

Look at source code and adjust it to your needs.

I have no idea what your code does for the logo stuff just from looking at it

Originally posted by: ZOXXO
Change the ruler from pixels to percent, then record the action again.

That wouldn't work for me because I need the logo to be a fixed number of pixels away from the bottom right corner on both horz. and vert. orientation.

 

[Joony]

I started a thread at FredMiranda and I got a decent respounse.

Russell Brown's was suggested.

It gave me some great ideas of selecting the entire laying, and using the align tools to go to the bottom and to the right. That part of the action works wonderfully, but when I nudge it a few pixels away from the bottom corner, it scales the logo to about half the size, what the heck?

I didn't record any scaling during the nudge. And when I delete the nudge and retry the action before the nudging, the logo is still at the right size.

ideas?