Working with Variables in Photoshop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- In this Episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost demonstrates the incredible power of Variables in Photoshop. You will learn how to cut hours out of your production time when you need to combine text and photographs. Although this feature has been in Photoshop for many releases, only a small number of customers know if its immense power for tasks such as automating event photography, creating web banners and producing graphics.
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This is old, but gold. Exactly what I want.
Every year I'm making the family calendar. I have saved this link to my workdir 6 years ago. Since than every year I'm rewatching it :D
Every year I came back to this tutorial, helps a lot at my Calendar automation.
That's one of the most useful tutorials I have ever seen.
thank you for that.
Thanks Julieanne. Great tutorial! Watching this in May 2019 and still worked with the latest version of Photoshop CC.
concise and clear tutorial! you saved my life. Thank you so much!
I found this 5 years later but still useful, thank you so much xD
Thanks Julieanne. This is an excellent tutorial.
Wow, this is amazing. Straight to the point, no nonsense, and incredibly useful. Thanks!
I cant thank you enough enough for this. Great work, great video.
Fantastic tutorial! I had already written a script to set my page numbers in a batch process. But this approach will do that and also put my image files to the right position already! That’ll save me hours of work!
Extremely useful and clear explanation of something that’s a little tricky to master. Saved me a bunch of time!
After watching many tutorials on YT, this one is finally a CLEAR and QUICK TUTORIAL !!! Thank you Julieanne, you're the BEST ! You deserve more views if your thumbnails was more attractive
i know Im randomly asking but does any of you know a method to get back into an instagram account??
I somehow lost my account password. I would love any tips you can give me.
This was incredibily helpful in 2020. Great video! Thanks Julieanne
This is amazingly fell done. Professionally well spoken and instructed. Described so well I can follow along in Windows too!
A very nice tutorial you have done .i was making Ids manually ,i i will work with the veriables.thanks a lot for it.
Thank you very much! Saved me a lifetime of time :D
Holy cow, looking forward to using this!!!! I do events with 1000+ photos & for people to choose the photos out of a video, this is awesome!! Using "cmd prompt" to convert file names to .txt then to excel then back to .txt.... My head is still in a 1am whirlwind but this is what I needed. I love youtube, thanks for sharing! you really helped me
Thank you so much!Love from India!
This is helpful. I shoot a lot of individual athlete photos for sports teams, and to change just the name & subject cut out in 30+ files is just great. Then I can review the PSD files & open only those whose type placement (due to length) to adjust. Top notch always, Julieanne.
This is PEEEERFFECT! Thank you!
Thanks Julieanne.
Useful. Thanks for this tip.
beautifully done!
Thanks Julieanne. Variables in photoshop, import with other fonts as psd
Thanks For Such A Brilliant Explanation... :D :D
Came back again to say thanks :)
Thank you so much!
Don't usually comment - but this has been extremely helpful. I was able to generate hundreds of images to be used for sharing our product pages on social media.
Hi! I was wondering if you could tell me how you set up the image layer? I placed a shape, another image, and a picture frame and none worked! Hoping someone who figured it out here might know the answer lol.
Markotop this tutorial, first time using Photoshop and also variable/dataset for print ID-Card
Thanks!
Nice video Julieanne. One Question is that could it possible to put PSB file instead of JPG
THIS WAS AN EXCELLENT TUTORIAL!
the only problem i had was i did not place the .txt file were the photos were located and that seems to cause some trouble, but once i figured it out it all worked perfectly fine /
thank you so much you literally saved me hundreds hours of work for future days to come
In a separate video demonstration, they used full paths for the image files in the data. In that case I would think you could pull images from anywhere on your system, even different folders between each record.
Hi! I was wondering if you could tell me how you set up the image layer? I placed a shape, another image, and a picture frame and none worked! Hoping someone who figured it out here might know the answer lol.
thanks for the tutorial. i tried to use it, when i click "data set as files", it asked me if i want to replace files. but the file was just created and there is no files in the folder. how can i save multiple data set psd files?
Very nice feature. Have you done a movie on creating templates for variables, or might you?
If anyone is getting an error "Could not parse the file contents as a data set. There were too many variable names in the first line of the text file." make sure you don't have columns which aren't being used as variables in your psd.
For example:
I saved my csv with 10 columns but only set up one layer with a variable and went to attach the csv as a data set.
BANG! Got that error. So I had to remove all but the one column I wanted to test and it ran fine.
Just incase someone else runs into this :)
good and useful
thennks veryyy mutch!!!!!!!!!
Thanks. Julieanne, I have the same question as some of the folks. Can this be saved as JPG or PNG?
Best regards,
Use Image Processor in Adobe Bridge - open the folder with the PSDs and save as JPEG.
Thanks Julieanne for simple but very effective tutorial. I am new to photoshop and this could be a silly questions. Could you please answer this for me - How to make the files from data sets to a JPEG or PNG file instead of PSD file? Thanks in advance - Hari
in Phootshop simply go to File > Scripts > Image Processor. That screen will allow you to choose your PSD folder, select a destination, settings you want. Then just run it and you'll have JPGs. 😜
Hello Julianne, I love how you presented the whole tutorial in just 9 minutes compared to other tutorials I've seen.
But I have a question, is it possible to insert text in a layer that is longer than the layer but it adjust automatically so it fits?
Thank you in advance if you see this comment
I think this is possible, look into creating Paragraph Text
@@SirNightmareFuel thanks I will try that
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Also curious , how come the files aren't names according to the data set names e.g. my column have people's first and last names. when it exports the data set, it names the psd file as data set 1, etc for the 15 names. Hopefully someone will be kind to respond to my questions in due time :(
Hi, thank you for the excellent video. I have a .psd of a floor plan, and it contains 100 rooms (all in 1 layer, it's an imported pdf). I also have an tab delimited file of 100 office room numbers, and their 100 occupant names. From your video, is sounds like I could create 100 text variables for names, and 100 room number variables for office numbers, and place them on the single drawing inside each room. Assuming that this is possible, I have 2 questions: First, is this the right product/use of photoshop to do this? About 10% of my office occupants change over the course of a year, is there a better adobe product to achieve this goal. Second, is there a limitation to the number of offices (variables/layers) I can have in a single document? Is there a ceiling to this? This example is is using 200 variables. Does this mean I have 200 delimiters and 1 row in my text file, that just seem like its not the best way to achieve my goal? Thank you for any guidance. Michael
I don't believe this data merge technique is suited for your project. I would say it would be easier to just create 100 layers in your PSD, one for each office number and have the occupant's name inside that layer as editable text. You would just edit the occupants text directly in the office layer they are in.
Por favor Urgente!!! Se pueden Sustituir Pixeles con PSD o PSB en vez de archivos JPG o PNG? Muchas gracias
Very nice hidden feature. But is quite obvious that it hasn't gotten any attention over all these years. Things like not being able to export in other formats (jpg directly) or use values from the dataset in the name export are obvious features. Nice feature nonetheless! and great tutorial ^^
Hi! I was wondering if you could tell me how you set up the image layer? I placed a shape, another image, and a picture frame and none worked! Hoping someone who figured it out here might know the answer :)
Timecode 3:46 starting to define database
simple
if i set a pixel replacement for a rotated image. all the data sets will show as a regular placed image not rotated. how can i make them all be roated?
You must rotate first in the JPG file
thaaaaaaaaaaaanks
Imges are blank & white when we export data file. Solution?
Very good info.. but I have one question. What if you get ( Variabes - Could not apply data set because the replacement file was not found ) error message.. how do you fix this?
You missed the step to IMPORT the file of Data, check the video again near the end
HELP ME PLEASE. I am having problems merging images into my template. Text merges without issues.
I did everything but once i import the txt file it shows "could not apply data set because the replacement file was not found" why?
hi excelent explanatio , and I did everythig but an error is apearing " could nnot apply the data set because the repacement file was not found" how can I correct this?
you have written your jpeg file name wrong ,recheck it .
@@Its_AkeelSiddiqui what should be the file name
Hi, Is it possible to use different language such as Arabic for text replacements. I tried saving the CSV with UTF-8 Support and it doesn't seem to take it. so without UTF-8 Support it shows ?????? instead of characters. Is there a way around this ?
Hi, it works for chinese, I saved TXT file with UTF8 and selected UTF8 in PS (you must deselect Automatic)
Dear, I got this error, Could not parse the file contents as a data set. There were too many variable names in the first line of the text file.. how can I fix it?
Can anyone please point me to a video with how to set up the image layer? I am a total newbie. Thanks so much!
Right?! I tried frame, shape, another photo... and nothing!
how to wrap text variable data ???
Seperate wrapped cell into seperate cells, then make those stacked fields on the template. So "Line_1" and "Line_" are stacked in image, not wrapped in text. It won't import the 2 lines from 1 cell separately
Thank you but it does not work with Persian or Arabic Characters even by using UTF8.
I'm getting this err: Variable names must begin with a letter, underscore(_), or colon (:). Names cannot contain spaces or special characters, except for period (.), hyphen (-), underscore(_), and colon (:). using mac photoshop cc 2019. Not sure why because i only have 1 variable field to change and that's the name. I followed the instructions. P
lEASE HELP.
Fixed it! I had caps in the naming convention. Curious how I NOW CAN EXPORT THIS DATA SET AS A pdf?????
What is the problem if I get a error message that state "data set 1 is incomplete", I have made sure all the variable name are case sensative and are spelled correctly but I can not figure it out.
+Angelica Morales me too. keeps saying "data set 1 is incomplete" my day is messed up. cant move on. lol
+Daven Canapi I finally was able to figure it out but I used InDesign instead.
+Daven Canapi I also think it doesn't work if you have missing info in you excel list
what do you mean? i have all the data in my excel? i think its because im running windows?
My life just became 100x easier.
It is possible to save .jpg ?
+rvf design I need to know too please
Does anyone figured this out? I want to create a lot of files but I need them to be jpg.
This is probably too late to help any of you, but after you have a folder with all of your PSD files, simply go to File > Scripts > Image Processor. That screen will allow you to choose your PSD folder, select a destination, along with image settings you want. Then just run it and you'll have JPGs.
thank you was looking for that
what about the empty lines in the Excel and thus the .txt file between every data set? are those mandatory?
You don’t need to put spaces between each line anymore
variables and data sets not working
how do I export it as PNG file please?
File> scripts > image process > select your folder > save as jpeg in same location