Photoshop Friday - load layers
A little late, but a good tip! This gem is actually about Bridge, which is one of those programs you don't really notice...until you need it to do something that shaves huge amounts of time off your workflow. I fell in love with Bridge when I was digitizing books and needed to batch rotate every other page, and then batch rename hundreds of files at a time.
So here's the scenario. I'm planning a book cover and I'm not quite sure which background I want to use. You never know how the shapes are going to interact with your foreground subject until you put them together. Lots of stuff that looks great in my mind's eye is not-so-great on the page. I downloaded sample files of each background I'll be auditioning. Then it occurred to me that rather than open each file and drag it onto a document, there's a way to automate the process and open a group of files as a layered document, one image per layer.
Not with Photoshop, but with Bridge.
Select all your images, then navigate to the command Tools>Photoshop>Load Files Into Photoshop Layers and voila! They appear as a new untitled multi-layer document in Photoshop and you've just saved yourself A BUNCH of time.
I'm pretty sure I got this tip from Dave Cross on Photoshop TV. Glad to have a reason to use it!
So here's the scenario. I'm planning a book cover and I'm not quite sure which background I want to use. You never know how the shapes are going to interact with your foreground subject until you put them together. Lots of stuff that looks great in my mind's eye is not-so-great on the page. I downloaded sample files of each background I'll be auditioning. Then it occurred to me that rather than open each file and drag it onto a document, there's a way to automate the process and open a group of files as a layered document, one image per layer.
Not with Photoshop, but with Bridge.
Select all your images, then navigate to the command Tools>Photoshop>Load Files Into Photoshop Layers and voila! They appear as a new untitled multi-layer document in Photoshop and you've just saved yourself A BUNCH of time.
I'm pretty sure I got this tip from Dave Cross on Photoshop TV. Glad to have a reason to use it!