Photoshop open multiple image and add different texts

Question

Hi All,
Hope you are all doing great. I just started doing photoshop scripting due to the requirement which I will mention in detail below.
My scripting is knowledge is very basic so I was hoping you guys could be able to help me out with this.
The requirment is that I have 100's of images which needs to be opened in photoshop and add text based on the image name then save the image as JPEG at 70 quality. For example:
I have images named as below in my desktop folder,
Image1.jpg
Image2.jpg
Image3.jpg
Image4.jpg
Image5.jpg
Image6.jpg
Image7.jpg
Image8.jpg
Image9.jpg
Image10.jpg
For the script, I think the easiest way is that if I define what image name are:
image[1] = Image1.jpg
image[2] = Image2.jpg
image[3] = Image3.jpg
image[4] = Image4.jpg
image[5] = Image5.jpg
image[6] = Image6.jpg
image[7] = Image7.jpg
image[8] = Image8.jpg
image[9] = Image9.jpg
image[10] = Image10.jpg
and for text I have done this:
text [1] = Image1
text [2] = Image2
text [3] = Image3
text [4] = Image4
text [5] = Image5
text [6] = Image6
text [7] = Image7
text [8] = Image8
text [9] = Image9
text [10] = Image10
So everytime when I run the script image1 will be added to the photoshop and the text name Image1 will be added (For this I think defining layer name would be better so I will gave "Imagetext").
Then the image will be saved on a specific location on my desktop.
I have all this plan on what I want to do but I don't know how to write the script using photoshop API and my limited javascript coding.
So if you guys could help me out with this, that would be awesome. Hope to hear on this soon.
Kind Regards,
Zoogle

Answer 1

Hi Ghoulfool,
Thank you very much for taking your time in looking into my question.
Also thanks for the script you've provided. Your script works perfectly close to my requirements but there are few minor addon that I would like to request please.
My apologies for not being very clear
First of all to answer your questions:
Image size varies but mostly between 1200-1000 pixels.
Good question regarding text size, I would like to control the size of the text based on how long the character length is.
Position varies so I would like to adjust it manually or if I could definie within the script that would be superb.
The images open in new window rather that staying in the currently opend psd, I have other layers which I need to keep it as static and use the script to add the image between these layers.
I wouldn't mind if all these 100's of images stay in current psd as layers.
I was hoping if possible I would have more control over what text I would like to put on the image.
Below is the example , I am sure the code below is wrong but with my limited scripting that's all I could come up with
This is the code that would be controlling what text/text size appear on images based on the i value:
var publicPath = 'C:/Users/Username/Desktop/imagesavetest';
var outputPath = publicPath;
var imagetext = new Array();
imagetext[0] = "imagetext0";
imagetext[1] = "Apple";
imagetext[2] = "imagetext2";
imagetext[3] = "Pineapple";
imagetext[4] = "Orange";
imagetext[5] = "imagetext5";
imagetext[6] = "imagetext6";
imagetext[7] = "Berries";
for (var i in imagetext) {
  textLength = imagetext[i].length;
  saveMyFile = imagetext;
  theText.contents = imagetext[i].toUpperCase();
  switch (true) {
    case textLength <= 9:
      theText.font = "Arial";
      theText.size = 38;
      theText.contents = imagetext[i].toUpperCase();
      break;
    case textLength > 9 && textLength <= 12:
      theText.font = "Arial";
      theText.size = 28;
      theText.contents = imagetext[i].toUpperCase();
      break;
  saveAsJPEG(outputPath,  saveMyFile);
  counter++;
And to open files from the user defined location:
var inFolder = new Folder("C:/Input")
var image = new Array();
image[0] = "image0.jpg";
image[1] = "image1.jpg";
image[2] = "image2.jpg";
image[3] = "image3.jpg";
image[4] = "image4.jpg";
image[5] = "image5.jpg";
image[6] = "image6.jpg";
image[7] = "image7.jpg";
for (var j in image) {
if j=0 look for i=0 and add i value as text
To simplify i'll open psd with layers, add image between existing layers and add text based on the text name which we defined in script.
Sorry for long post, but hope I have not made this simple process confusing.
Please do let me know if you have any questions. Hope you hear from you soon and Thanks for your time.
Kind Regards,
Zoogle.