bringing jpgs directly into layers

I could use some help with the following problem.

Several times a day I have to go through the following rigmarole. I start out with a primary JPG background file, usually approximately 8.5 x 11 inches. Into this background file I have to import, as separate layers, somewhere between 20 and 30 half-inch by half-inch JPG’s, placing them as appropriate around the background file. Each individual little JPG must remain on its own separate layer because sometimes individual processing must be done to each one.

To accomplish this currently, I go out with a file browser and select my 20 or 30 half-inch JPG’s and drag and drop them from the file browser on to the open background JPG in Photoshop. Photoshop responds by opening all 20 or 30 half-inch JPG’s as separate files, which I then tile and then painstakingly drag them on to my background file ONE AT A TIME. As I drag each individual half-inch JPG file into the main file, I have to make sure that I go to the newly created layer and carefully name this new layer after the original filename from which the half-inch JPG originally came from.

Needless to say, this is tedious and time-consuming in the extreme. It would be much easier if I could indicate to Photoshop that I do not want all of these little JPG’s opened as individual files but rather be included as separate individual layers as part of the primary background file, each layer hopefully being named after the original source file from which the little JPG came from.

Does anybody have a way of doing this? So far haven’t been able to figure out how to do this myself.

Thanks in advance.

Photoshop CS 8.0

SCA

In article <VKmXf.76223$ says…

In CS (ver 8), you have Contact Sheet II. I have not explored your exact situation, but believe that you can set up a "contact sheet" without the file name, and CSII will bring in all the files in a specific folder as separate Layers. I’d explore the settings a bit, and you should place your JPGs into a separate folder.

Hunt

In article <VKmXf.76223$ says…

I could use some help with the following problem.

Several times a day I have to go through the following rigmarole. I start out with a primary JPG background file, usually approximately 8.5 x 11 inches. Into this background file I have to import, as separate layers, somewhere between 20 and 30 half-inch by half-inch JPG’s, placing them as appropriate around the background file. Each individual little JPG must remain on its own separate layer because sometimes individual processing must be done to each one.

To accomplish this currently, I go out with a file browser and select my 20 or 30 half-inch JPG’s and drag and drop them from the file browser on to the open background JPG in Photoshop. Photoshop responds by opening all 20 or 30 half-inch JPG’s as separate files, which I then tile and then painstakingly drag them on to my background file ONE AT A TIME. As I drag each individual half-inch JPG file into the main file, I have to make sure that I go to the newly created layer and carefully name this new layer after the original filename from which the half-inch JPG originally came from.

Needless to say, this is tedious and time-consuming in the extreme. It would be much easier if I could indicate to Photoshop that I do not want all of these little JPG’s opened as individual files but rather be included as separate individual layers as part of the primary background file, each layer hopefully being named after the original source file from which the little JPG came from.

Does anybody have a way of doing this? So far haven’t been able to figure out how to do this myself.

Thanks in advance.

Photoshop CS 8.0

SCA

In CS (ver 8), you have Contact Sheet II. I have not explored your exact situation, but believe that you can set up a "contact sheet" without the file name, and CSII will bring in all the files in a specific folder as separate Layers. I’d explore the settings a bit, and you should place your JPGs into a separate folder.

Hunt

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I could use some help with the following problem.

Several times a day I have to go through the following rigmarole. I start out with a primary JPG background file, usually approximately 8.5 x 11 inches. Into this background file I have to import, as separate layers, somewhere between 20 and 30 half-inch by half-inch JPG’s, placing them as appropriate around the background file. Each individual little JPG must remain on its own separate layer because sometimes individual processing must be done to each one.

To accomplish this currently, I go out with a file browser and select my 20 or 30 half-inch JPG’s and drag and drop them from the file browser on to the open background JPG in Photoshop. Photoshop responds by opening all 20 or 30 half-inch JPG’s as separate files, which I then tile and then painstakingly drag them on to my background file ONE AT A TIME. As I drag each individual half-inch JPG file into the main file, I have to make sure that I go to the newly created layer and carefully name this new layer after the original filename from which the half-inch JPG originally came from.

Needless to say, this is tedious and time-consuming in the extreme. It would be much easier if I could indicate to Photoshop that I do not want all of these little JPG’s opened as individual files but rather be included as separate individual layers as part of the primary background file, each layer hopefully being named after the original source file from which the little JPG came from.

Does anybody have a way of doing this? So far haven’t been able to figure out how to do this myself.

Thanks in advance.

Photoshop CS 8.0

SCA