The Photoshop Productivity Series: Automating Photoshop

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Here’s an interesting (and timely) example of the benefit of searching out Photoshop scripts. As I was in the middle of writing this section on scripts, a friend emailed me to ask if there is a way to export all the text from layers for translation and then reimport the text. While there is no built-in Photoshop function, a five-minute Google search I found a script that appears to do exactly that: export the text from layers into a text file for editing or translating along with a second script to reimport the text.

I downloaded and installed the scripts and, sure enough, they worked like a charm. The translated text came in according to the original position, font, size, color, etc. All thanks to some person out there—in ...