Expert: Kevin Stohlmeyer - 12/31/2008

Question
So, I want to blog some photos that I have taken adding my logo to each photo via batch conversion using actions. This would take forever to perform individually on a group of 20 photos. So basically, I know how to do basic photoshop actions (i.e. strokes/conversions/etc) but I am stuck when it comes to placing my logo (an eps file) on each photo. Ive tried creating a brush from the image but I can't get that to work. Do I tell photoshop to pull the logo from a designated folder each time? Please help. Thanks

Answer
Hi Matthew,

If you copy your logo as a layer first, you can then record an action using a paste command with your logo in the clipboard. This will allow you to change the scale, opacity and flatten onto your image in an action/script. However, every time you run this script you must first open and copy the logo to the clipboard.

Place command does not work since it is a user defined function that requires you to find what image you wish to place.

Photoshop and Bridge both have automated actions for placing watermarks on an image but they involve text and not images.

Thanks

Kevin