Hey guys,
I read this forum from time to time and have learned a lot here. But now I have a very specific question to ask and I hope someone here knows how to help me.
I have a template for a business card that I created for a company. So imagine I have a background layer which is the card itself, and above that a layer for each string of text on the card (name, title, phone, email). Up until now, I would manually enter all the information using the Type tool to edit each text layer. However, it has become very tedious and I know there has to be a much easier way to do this. I'm looking for a way to automate this process. So far I have created an Excel database of all the employees, and I export each employees information to a .txt file that looks like this:
John Doe
Job Title
123-456-7890
123-456-7890
john.doe@company.com
Each line in the .txt file corresponds to a text layer on the .psd. I've tried following a tutorial from the web (kirupa.com - Photoshop Scripting) but he is creating them in batches which is not what I need to do. And quite frankly, it's a bit over my head. I know scripting must be the way, but unfortunately I don't know much about JavaScript or any other language for that matter.
I know it's a lot to ask for, but if anyone could show me how to write a simple script for this or point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. And I mean MUCH!
I read this forum from time to time and have learned a lot here. But now I have a very specific question to ask and I hope someone here knows how to help me.
I have a template for a business card that I created for a company. So imagine I have a background layer which is the card itself, and above that a layer for each string of text on the card (name, title, phone, email). Up until now, I would manually enter all the information using the Type tool to edit each text layer. However, it has become very tedious and I know there has to be a much easier way to do this. I'm looking for a way to automate this process. So far I have created an Excel database of all the employees, and I export each employees information to a .txt file that looks like this:
John Doe
Job Title
123-456-7890
123-456-7890
john.doe@company.com
Each line in the .txt file corresponds to a text layer on the .psd. I've tried following a tutorial from the web (kirupa.com - Photoshop Scripting) but he is creating them in batches which is not what I need to do. And quite frankly, it's a bit over my head. I know scripting must be the way, but unfortunately I don't know much about JavaScript or any other language for that matter.
I know it's a lot to ask for, but if anyone could show me how to write a simple script for this or point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. And I mean MUCH!
