Personal Stamp?

I’d suggest going the Action route. Save your transparent PSD in a set location. Then build an action that utilizes the "Place" command.

So basically the idea will work like this.

With an open file, start recording your action.

1. Go to File>Place.

2. Choose your saved PSD file and click OKAY.

3. Position (and set) the placed file in the location on the image you desire.

4. Stop recording the action.

Now all you have to do is run the action and it’ll automatically place the PSD file into the same area of your image every time.

BLUDVLZ,

I was curious about this and tried it with PS7, but the Place command is looking only for parseable formats (PDF, AI, EPS, & PDP). So, at the very least the logo file would have to be in one of those formats first, rather than PSD.

But, what I’m curious about is that wouldn’t placement of the file vary according to the dimensions of the image into which it is being placed? I’m not sure how you might force a logo to place, for example, always in the bottom right of an image.

any thoughts?

Daryl

Daryl

I’m not sure if there is another lower right trick, but since placing something in the upper left would be easy, why not add a couple steps to the action that:

a) rotate the image 180 degrees

b) place an upside down version of the logo in the upper left

c) rotate the image 180 degrees

Voila, a logo in the lower right.

Hi Don,

I’d not tried anything yet, but I thought also that the same process you describe should work. Having never used the Place command, it wasn’t as easy as these posts suggest however…unless I did something wrong. First off there was the file format issue, and secondly the placing of the file was to the center of the image. There appeared to be no way to move it other than by stretching the image corner to the desired spot and then grabbing the opposing corner and pulling it down to restore the image proportions, if that makes sense. I need to check Help for the Place command and look also to see if I missed some settings in the Options bar…I don’t recall seeing anything.

My approach to this question would have been to select and position an area the size of the logo to be put into the image, and then do a paste into. However, I’ve not tried that yet either. At the very least, this approach should support a broader range of file formats for the logo.

Regards,

Daryl

Doc,

I’ve created an Action that pretty well does what you’re after. You can download it and a sample image from <http://jazzdiver.com/photoshop/Add_Logo_Action.zip>. To see what the action does, copy or move the included "logo.psd" file to C:\logo.psd so that the action looks in the correct place for it. While not as fast as a brush stroke, it is still quick (and quite likely very quick on something more than my dual 550MHz P3).

The main step to be aware of is the Selection using a fixed size where the specified size is that of your logo. If you’ve never used that, once you select the Rectangular Marquee tool the Options panel has a drop-down menu to choose Fixed Size from. Now, if you have your Info palette visible when you make the selection, you can ensure your cursor is at X,Y = 0,0. In one fell swoop that will define a selection the size of your logo that is positioned at the top left corner of your image.

Now, in the case of my action, I wanted the logo to ultimately be at the bottom left of my destination image, regardless of that image’s size. So, here’s what my action does:

1. With the destination image already open, the logo file is opened, all content copied, and then the file is closed.
2. The destination image now the active file by default, the Select Fixed Size step defines where the logo is to be pasted.
3. The logo is pasted from the clipboard to the selected area.
4. Now, to get the logo from the top left corner as I’d defined to the bottom right (independent of image size, else I’d have defined the selected area at the bottom right), a series of flips is performed, first using the whole layer so that the image size contributes to the placement.
5. The area is deselected and the action is complete….unless you want to merge the logo into the image permanently, in which case a Merge Down of the layer should be added.

Note, if you have some other more arbitrary placement needed for your logo and you know that it will always be within the dimensions of your destination image, then you can record over the Select Fixed Size step and define that position. Then, delete the rotate and flip layer steps. That will make for an even faster-executed action.

Don’t forget also that you will need to record over the step that opens the logo file, based upon where your file is saved at.

You’re probably aware of this, but if you want to avoid any dialogs interrupting the flow of the action, be sure your logo and your destination file are both defined in the same color space. Also, the resolutions should be the same if you don’t want any scaling to occur on the logo.

Hope that helps,

Daryl

Sorry Daryl,

It was a mistype on my part. I meant PDF. As for the placement, I don’t really know. I have an action set up and it always places it in the same location no matter what the size of the main image. If I get a few minutes this weekend I’ll explore this further.

BLUDVLZ,

Sure enough, PDF works fine…I’d tried Place using an EPS file last night, but it didn’t give the positioning controls in the Options bar as I find does occur with a PDF. So, yes, your approach works as you said.

Whether using Place or pasting to a fixed area selection, the only problem is that of if the defined position lies outside the main image dimensions. If the position is a central or corner location, or perhaps even based upon percentages of image size, then either approach should work.

I guess the thing I favor with the approach I took is that the logo can be in any acceptable image format.

Thanks for the clarification,

Daryl