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This has been frustraiting me for ages. Every so often I google for the solution but have never found one. Can anyone here help...
I have created an action to prepare images for web posting. The action resizes images, sharpens them, adds a frame writes into the frame my contact details and lastly adds the name of the subject (location, or person's name) and then outputs the image to the correct folder. Typically I run the batch on a folder of say 30-40 images at a time.... sometimes upto 100. All run from either bridge or as a droplet via Lightroom.
The action works great... except that each batch I run it on the "subject name" I need to insert is different. Is there any way at all to get the action to prompt me for just that bit of information. I've tried checking/ticking the dialog on/off option for the text field in the actions pallet and that works, but... when I'm applying the action to a batch of images it asks for the text EVERY time and doesn't remember what I typed in last time.
At the moment, the solution I have is to open one image that I want to run the batch on. Make a copy of the action and enable a stop before the text prompt... run the script to that point. Then run/edit the text line, remove/disable the stop. If necessary create a new droplet. I can then go over to bridge or Lightroom and process the images using the new action.
Ideally the what I would like to hapen when I'm running an action like this is when processing the FIRST image in the batch for PS to ask me what text I want and then use that same text on all the other 30 or 40 images.
Anyone got any idea how to do this?
Thanks,
Ian M Butterfield

Hi, what has been suggested so far is exactly what I'm trying to avoid having to do. I'm trying to avoid having to create a new action each time, I'd like to have one action that prompts me for the name. The alternative, I guess, is there any way to grab a value from the IPTC as the text I need to write is in there?
Thanks
Ian.

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