PS Experts: Creating watermark action. Text changing all different sizes in batch run
 

Don't get what I've done wrong setting up this action. Just a simple resize, text, align right, align bottom. I run through the action in a batch, and when i check out the results. I get a handful of images every time where the text size jumps all different sizes.

Anyone know what's going on here?

I would suspect that your pics are all different sizes (pixel height by pixel width) and/or aspects (portrait and landscape)

if you set your action up on a pic that is say 750 pixels high by 500 wide

and then your directory contains pix of various sizes say.. 80x40 up to 700x1200

your watermark will appear to 'jump' all over the pic and the font will appear to be different 'sizes'

in fact the watermark is exactly the same size in every pic, just looks large on small pics, and small on large pics, and just right on the pics that match (or are very close) to the size of your initial pic (the one you used to set up the batch).

and on the landscape vs. portrait ones, PS places it in exactly the 'spot' that you initially set up, but the background that it is set on changes constantly.


sort your pics by size and aspect into different directories and create a batch for each dir.


alternatly, if your pics are all the same 'original size' I would reccommend that you run one batch to resize, then another to place the watermark, I have had to do this before.


hope that helps

Is there a way I can import another PSD or a layer from another PSD in an action? So I could do it as an image watermark?

the images have to be the same size to achieve the same sized watermarks. I dont think if all the pics were the same that it would randomly make the watermark itself smaller.

Your action method sounds right.

If the pics are all different sized... I dont think you can get a proportionate watermark on all pics... could be wrong.

Probably is a way, but i dont have the answer on hand ;)