Hello (my first post and a beginner so go easy...!)

My photoshop guy resigned and now I need help!

In my Facebook group we have birthday cards (online ones only) and my PS guy used a notepad document with all the peoples names on to produce all that weeks birthdays all at once. So we'd have 40-ish images all with the same background but with different text on each one

I wonder if gimp can do this or something similar, to enable me to produce lots of images at the same time, all with different text? Otherwise its hours sat there changing the text one at a time...

I have the PS document which I can open in gimp and all its layers are there.

It all depends on 'quote' ...I have the PS document which I can open in gimp and all its layers are there.

Are all the 'name' layers there? Gimp does not have a function to batch import text from an external file although you can copy//paste into the text tool. You do not need to type.

If you have all the names as layers. PS text is converted to raster images and any effects probably lost. Hopefully you can get those 'name' layers and save them as a Gimp .xcf file.

Started writing a how-to with screenshots but I can do a video demo in half the time.

https://youtu.be/X1tGdHT6jGI two and a half minutes but it is all there. Have a look and come back with the problems.

It uses 2 old scripts (but easy to use) - attached. Un-zip and put in your Gimp profile scripts folder C:\Users\yourname\.gimp-2.8\scripts

If you do not have PS layers from that text file, then it becomes much more complicated. It can be done using a command line application ImageMagick. (at least in linux it is not too difficult, not too sure about Windows) to generate individual images.

This might be something that could best be approached using something like imagemagick to script it. Do you have the background image and a sample of a previous result you are trying to accomplish? It'll make it easier for folks to recommend a solution.
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 4:40 AM HattersHoare wrote:

Hello (my first post and a beginner so go easy...!)

My photoshop guy resigned and now I need help!

In my Facebook group we have birthday cards (online ones only) and my PS guy
used a notepad document with all the peoples names on to produce all that weeks
birthdays all at once. So we'd have 40-ish images all with the same background
but with different text on each one

I wonder if gimp can do this or something similar, to enable me to produce lots
of images at the same time, all with different text? Otherwise its hours sat
there changing the text one at a time...

I have the PS document which I can open in gimp and all its layers are there.

Can anyone help?

Cheers

HH

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