• Adobe Photoshop

  files to layers

  Posted by Wilhelm Hagberg on September 15, 2006 at 5:07 pm

  Hi, i often have a folder with say 100 pics that I want to collect as layers in 1 psd document. Does anyone know how to automate this, so i don\t have to open&select all&copy&paste&close 100 times

  Best regards,
  wtk

  Wilhelm Hagberg replied 19 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mike Gondek

  September 18, 2006 at 7:00 pm

  You can do this by recording an action. Your action needs to include:
  select all
  copy
  close
  paste

  After you recorded your action create a new file to paste to, and use batch to run your action on a slected folder of input images.

  Works perfect. Items do paste in center though, so works best with images of the same pixel dimensions.
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  Richard Harrington

  September 19, 2006 at 4:11 am

  I’ll often just import into AE

  Add all to a new comp

  Choose Composition > Save as PSD layers

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Photoshop CS for Nonlinear Editors, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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  Wilhelm Hagberg

  September 21, 2006 at 4:30 am

  Many thanks Mike, your action works great!
  Finally, my computer works for me instead of the other way
  around for a change! 😀
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  Wilhelm Hagberg

  September 21, 2006 at 4:32 am

  Cool, this works perfect too! Strange that they don’t have this
  inbuilt in PS too! Many thanks Richard!
  /wtkk

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