Importing image or graphic onto working layer?

I am using Photoshop cs4
When I work in Flash I can import a image or graphic to the library or directly onto the stage...My question is...Can I do this in photoshop?
Thank you

That was easy, Thank you very much.

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Would love to sort this issue out as we rely on being able to see the star rating not just keywords.

[Sorry for the delay in getting back.] Of the three files you included in the Dropbox .zip, 2 had no rating, and 1 had a 5-star rating (*research*.dng). So indeed, the rating didn't get written to those two files and wouldn't show up when they were imported into another catalog.
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2. After someone sets the rating, check the thumbnail in Library grid mode -- does it have a badge in the upper-right corner indicating the metadata needs to be updated? If it does, then that means the metadata isn't getting written immediately back to the file:

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hi,
can you please elaborate your answer, i could not understand it completely.
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Hasan

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When importing images into LR5 on my laptop, the photos all have a wide yellow streak through them. This only happens on the laptop; I can import the images onto my desktop LR and there isn't the streak of colour. Can someone help?

When importing images into LR5 on my laptop, the photos all have a wide yellow streak through them. This only happens on the laptop; I can import the images onto my desktop LR and there isn't the streak of colour. Can someone help?
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Hello.
I've tried to adapt this script I to update a sprite sheet.
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http://www.charlescrammond.co.uk/downloads/ReplaceContentsOfSmartObjects.jsx
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http://www.charlescrammond.co.uk/downloads/spritesheet.zip
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/// Script to automate replacing contents of smart layers with selected psds
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/// Sometimes it throws an error at :
/// executeAction( idplacedLayerEditContents, desc2, DialogModes.NO );
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The following query has been raised with Adobe Technical Support (5 days ago and I am still waiting for a response/reply. They claim to reply within 24 hours but they have not on this occasion......they seem to be ignoring me
Perhaps a fellow user can help to identify or resolve the problem.
Operating System:
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Have a play.
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I was asked to cut several trailers for an award show. Which is nice. However, they have this category about "best website", and of course, they want to use images of those websites, the banners, the headlines and so on. I don't mean single images found on that website, but rather the site from head to toe, from top to bottom, left to right.
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