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Need Photoshop action to record WHERE on canvas a layer is placed, NOT how many pixels it was moved.

Jun 2, 2012 8:43 AM

Tags: #photoshop #adobe #action #position #actions #translate

Hello everyone,

 

I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure this out.

 

I created an action:

 

I have a bunch of PSD files of some pretty expensive rings that were shot at hi-res and cropped.

 

Now, i have a canvas that is 996x1104 px.

 

All of these rings must sized to 540px width AND positioned on the canvas at x:498px and y:706 (the bottom of the layer must touch 706px, which I did by clicking on the little tiny box at the bottom of the little square made of little squares (that's next to the x and y positions when you are on Transform mode).

 

I made an action for all of these steps.

 

 

However, when I batch a group of these hi-res ring PSDs and apply the action,

they are always in different spots. They all need to be set on y:706px so it looks like they are all resting on the same plane.

 

I found out why this is happening:

because when I position the ring when creating the action, Photoshop records HOW MUCH in pixels I moved the layer... NOT WHERE ON THE CANVAS IT'S POSITIONED.

 

This is what I need: to have Photoshop record WHERE on the canvas the layer is positioned.

 

Can anyone help?

 

We have so much work to do by Monday and setting up this action would definitely help us.

 

 

Thanks so much!

 

 

_Chris

 
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