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The photo studio I do restorations for is trying to create a Photoshop Action (using v7 for Mac) that will automatically add the studio logo in the corner of every print. The embosser has finally bit the dust.
I suggested creating two versions; a white logo with a black drop shadow, and a black logo with a white drop shadow. That way they can put the appropriate one on a light or a dark photo, obviously.
I created a couple of .WMF files, but when they get imported you need to tell it what size and resolution you want, and for an automated action, I’d like to have zero user interaction of this sort if it’s possible.
At the worst, I suppose I could create a file with various sized logos that can be copied/pasted into each print, but I’m really hoping to automate this as much as possible. I figured creating a text layer, entering one character and formatting it with the custom font would be the fastest, easiest thing, but I’ve sort of hit a wall.
So, I tried loading the logo into Corel Draw (admittedly a very old copy, version 4) and exporting the logo as a character in a new, custom font. That’s worked in the past for me, when working in MS Office documents. However, even though it shows up in an MS Word document with no problems, when I try to use the font/character in Photoshop, it doesn’t appear. If I highlight the text, I can see there’s a rectangle with the proportions of the logo, but the character itself isn’t showing.
I’m wondering if it’s too complex an object to load as a font character (essentially a customized Wingding, really).
Well, I very recently upgraded from Photoshop 5.5 to 7.0, and I’ve read a bit about curves being handled more readily in recent versions of Photoshop. Before I start learning this new tool, can anyone let me know if this seems like the right direction to go?
Dennis
I suggested creating two versions; a white logo with a black drop shadow, and a black logo with a white drop shadow. That way they can put the appropriate one on a light or a dark photo, obviously.
I created a couple of .WMF files, but when they get imported you need to tell it what size and resolution you want, and for an automated action, I’d like to have zero user interaction of this sort if it’s possible.
At the worst, I suppose I could create a file with various sized logos that can be copied/pasted into each print, but I’m really hoping to automate this as much as possible. I figured creating a text layer, entering one character and formatting it with the custom font would be the fastest, easiest thing, but I’ve sort of hit a wall.
So, I tried loading the logo into Corel Draw (admittedly a very old copy, version 4) and exporting the logo as a character in a new, custom font. That’s worked in the past for me, when working in MS Office documents. However, even though it shows up in an MS Word document with no problems, when I try to use the font/character in Photoshop, it doesn’t appear. If I highlight the text, I can see there’s a rectangle with the proportions of the logo, but the character itself isn’t showing.
I’m wondering if it’s too complex an object to load as a font character (essentially a customized Wingding, really).
Well, I very recently upgraded from Photoshop 5.5 to 7.0, and I’ve read a bit about curves being handled more readily in recent versions of Photoshop. Before I start learning this new tool, can anyone let me know if this seems like the right direction to go?
Dennis
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