Eric Nelson

I think it would be pretty awesome to have a replacement for Lightroom. It would also be cool to have scripting capability for the apps. I used to use an ExtendScript for Photoshop to automate creating titles for Final Cut Pro X. Read a delimited text file, drop fields into text layers, save as, repeat. Then Catalina happened and my CS4 is history. Short term solution is a python program to create an XML file that FCPX can import. Best long term solution is scripting for Photo and Designer. But I'd rather have a Lightroom replacement. Thanks a bunch… these tools are nice. Almost forgot… I'm a retired HP Engineering Director with just enough right brain to impersonate a musician, photographer & videographer. It does seem to get more convincing as time goes on.

Open Publisher Beta Choose Create New document, select Letter size, set margins to 0.5" all around. Click File / Place, choose three HEIC images from iPhone and click Open Boom! (SIGSEGV)

Thanks @v_kyr this is a brilliant! I've never looked inside an SVG file before to know just how easy it is to edit them. I can probably do the whole batch with a one-line unix command… cat foo.csv | while IFS=',' read a b c; do sed -e... -e... template.svg >${a}.svg; done

Occasionally I need to create a bunch of video titles with filenames and content from a CSV file. Several years ago I wrote a java script to do this in Photoshop. With the Photoshop template loaded, it prompts for the CSV file and, for each parsed line of the file, drops content into text layers and saves each new video title as a PSD file with a sequence number. Later those files will be imported into FCPX as a batch, making it a very efficient workflow. If something changes I tweak the CSV file and regenerate the batch. Is there the equivalent capability in either Photo or Designer? Is there a better way to do it? Thanks for insight…