Creating an action for a template

Hi, I'm in the middle of creating an action for a template I've created but have hit a couple of snags. The template I have created has a few blank layers that I wish to fill with different images by importing them and clipping them to the blank layer. My issues: 1) When I run the action I need to specifiy a folder and file location which gets stored in the action - when viewing that particular action will show up the full path of where to find that file - I do not want this. I would like the action to present to 'open' window to me to allow me to select a file of my choosing without having a predefined folder to go to... 2) When opening an image it will open on its own project window. When I select the image and copy + paste it into my template it requires me to select the template project. This action will insert a 'selection 2' action step when recording. Playing this back will cause a failure as it cannot find the project for an unknown reason. Is there a way of specifiying the project window name I wish to go to during recording? I hope that is clear enough to understand. Hope someone has some solution for me. Thanks, MJ

You may want to look at my Phtoshop package "Photo Collage Toolkit" It has four rules to follow when creating templates and some Photoshop Scripts. Scripting is much more powerful then actions. In the package there is a scripts to test templates your developing, A script to build a template, a script to populate a template with you images, a script to interactivly populate a template with your images, a script to batch populate a template with your images and a script to batch populate a single image template with your images.
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