Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 641)

634 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Automating tasks
Last updated 1/10/2010
Creating different versions of an image using variables
A. Source file template B. User defines layers as variables. C. Different versions of the image can be created, each with a different variable data
set.
Define variables
You use variables to define which elements in a template change. You can define three types of variables. Visibility
variables show or hide the content of a layer. Pixel Replacement variables replace the pixels in the layer with pixels from
another image file. Text Replacement variables replace a string of text in a type layer.
Note: GoLive recognizes all text and visibility variables, but not Pixel Replacement variables.
Two versions of an image based on the same template
A. Visibility variable B. Pixel Replacement variable C. Text Replacement variable
C
B
A
Daisy Daisy Rose Rose Lily Lily
Flower Flower
A
B
C
A
B
C