Watermark script alignment on cropped photos

Question

I have some raw photos which I've edited in photoshop raw, but when I run them through the scripting command (which does two things, resize and watermark), the watermark gets placed on the image as if the image was not cropped. Sometimes I'll have half the watermark showing, sometimes none at all. The scripting was successful with another script command I did for a smaller size, I did the same thing just leave the image larger, but it has this annoying side-effect. I'm really curious to know if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong, thanks.
-Mike

Answer 1

First of all Image Size does not crop it resample your image to a different pixel size. Please read on.
Fully expand your action so you can see each step and the setting recorded for the steps.   Pay close attention to all size setting and make sure they are what you are expecting.  The way Photoshop records size settings depend on Photoshop current ruler units.  If you record a step like Image size and set the dialog to something like 35% what get recoded depends on Photoshop current ruler units.  If ruler units is percent the steps will be record as a percentage.  If ruler units is pixels the Image size step will be an absolute pixel size which is 35% of the current document pixel size.  If you run that action on a document that has a different pixel size the resize will not to 35% of that document it will to 35% of the size of the document the action was recorded on.
It can be tricky to record an action that will water mark any size document well. It can be done better with a script. However scripting requires programming knowledge. My crafting actions package has a sample watermarking action that add three watermarks to and size document. One using a custom shape Layer one a text layer and the third a custom color logo.
Crafting Actions Package
Contains
Action Actions Palette Tips.txt
Action Creation Guidelines.txt
Action Dealing with Image Size.txt
Action Enhanced via Scripted Photoshop Functions.txt
CraftedActions.atn Sample Action set includes an example Watermarking action
Sample Actions.txt Photoshop CraftedActions set saved as a text file.
12 Scripts for actions
Example
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