creating an action help needed

ddesigns · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject: creating an action help needed

I have created a brush of my signature and want to make an action so I can have it automaticly go to the lower right hand corner. I am having problems when I record my steps - after I place the brush signature where I want it what do I do next? If I stop there then run the action to test it the brush signature never shows up. Confused

Help me if you can I have over 100 photos that need to be signed.

Thanks
Kristin

ETA- I am using PS CS2

swanseamale47 · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject:

You cant use the brush tool in an action (thats the bad news) however if you create a new document same size as your pics and add the sig to that you should be able to make an action that would copy and past that doc onto your image then flatten it (the good news). theres probably a better way to do it but I'm too tired to think of it right now. Wayne

Gallo_Pinto · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:31 pm Post subject:

You can paste into an action. Just put you sig in the clipboard and go. if, in a year from now, you have another hundred to sign, you'll just need to open up your sig and copy the layer.

the only problem I can think of is if your photos are of various sizes. the location of the sig after the action is complete is governed by how much you bumped it after you pasted. Therefore, on a smaller photo, your sig will be off in La-La land somewhere, and in a larger pic the sig will be farther away from the edge of the image, or closer to the center, however you wanna look at it. But even if you have four sizes most of your photos are, you'll still only be doing four sigs by hand.