Love to help other less fortunate than herself. Loves spending time with his wife and kids doing outdoors activities. Loves doing outdoors activities with friends. Personal interests include modeling and swimming. Personal interests include playing basketball and football. Love reading and writing for local organizations. Loves working with communities groups to help enhance her community. Personal interests include mountain climbing and snow skiing. NOTE: You can also create data-driven layouts in Adobe InDesign.īob enjoys spending time with family and friends. It is so much easier to use an Excel worksheet or a Access database and output its data as a comma delimited file (*.csv). Create a comma delimited or tab-delimited text file (i.e., mydata.txt) to represent the data.ĬAUTION: Be careful not to include commas inside the data (i.e., He loves football, baseball, basketball and hockey) because the data will be exported and comma separated values (*cvs) which will render the file useless.To create a data source OUTSIDE of Photoshop, follow the procedure below: In this tutorial we will use an external data source. There are two ways to create a data source: external or internal. This is akin to what is done when binding data to a database using server-side technologies (i.e., ColdFusion, etc.). You now need to bind or connect the (layer) variable names with the names in the data source.
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Likewise, we will first start with a data source so we will know in advance how to name the variables using the first row in our data source. Like most database driven applications, it is best to define the database (or data source) BEFORE you build an application. NOTE: It is best that the images be of the same size. Create or prepare an image for each placeholder in the data set (explained next) and place them in the same folder as the Photoshop file you will be creating.Images need to be created or prepared that will be used to replace the placeholders. Like Layer comps, this can save you a ton of time if you need to create a multitude of images that have basically the same layout (template) but need different text and graphic on each image (i.e., business cards, trading cards, web ads, web banners, posters, etc.). This is akin to using a mail merge program or even server-side scripting like Coldfusion, ASP(.NET), PHP or JSP. Then, these placeholders can be "filled" with data from a data source which could be a simple text file. Photoshop can use layer names as variable placeholders. The major different is that when you use variables you are retrieving the data from a data source instead of just turning layers on and off. Using variables in Photoshop is akin to using layer comps. Using Variables in Photoshop with External Data Source USING VARIABLES IN PHOTOSHOP WITH EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE
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