Power, Speed & Automation with Adobe Photoshop

SixREPEATINGTasks with External Data

Working with Variables and Data Sets

So far in this book, you have used automation to change a single file into a new file or many files into many new files. You can use automation to do more than just these one-to-one or many-to-many types of operations, however. You also can use it to generate many new files from just a single image file.

For example, many companies create badges for their employees to allow them access to company facilities. Each security badge usually has the photo of the employee, his name, and some other identifying information. Such badges usually have the same design with each employee’s ...