Automation

I?m printing onsite and I need to automate a watermark and printing a 4x6

photo. I would like for a way to build a process that watches for a new image

in a folder and then automatically kicks off the batch commands.

I created a droplet using ImageReady that creates the watermark. That works

fine when I place the picture on the droplet. However, you cannot print from

ImageReady. I don?t see how to easily place the watermark on the photo in

Photoshop CS2 like you can with the ImageReady Place command. I also found

that you need to resize the image to 4x6 and select the orientation. I?m

going to try to automate these taks and don?t have that done yet. I?m

thinking I?m going to have to have two droplets, one for the watermark, and

one that does the printing. I guess if I figure out how to place the

watermark GIF file on a picture in the same place with CS2, I would be down to

one droplet.

Is there a better way to do this?

John

If your watermark is just text, then create the action, placing the text where you want it. That's all there is to it. (Positioning is determined by relative position so it does go to the right place.)

If you are trying to place an image in there, let me know and I'll check it out. (Hurrying off of work right now.)

Oh, and somewhere I have a 'watch folder' program that detects when something new arrives in a folder, then executes any program. It's for Windoze.