Time stamp with PS CS4?

[whoisjian]

Great, Thanks, I been playing around, recorded an Action to change font and color, not perfect yet, but getting there.

Thanks a lot

Jian

[brolis13]

Originally Posted by csuebele

Here is a script file you can use. Unzip the attachement and place the file timestamp in the subfolder of photoshop CS4\presets\scripts. Start photoshop. Open an image and then go to file>scripts>timestamp. This will place the date and time in the lower right corner. You can and should add this to an action. After you run the script in the action, you can adjust the layer style and such to make it more visable.

How do I add this to an action?

[csuebele]

Originally Posted by brolis13

How do I add this to an action?

Create a new action, run the script, stop the action.

[dcast99]

Coming into this late, and I dont know if this was answered or not but, I found out how to change the font color, first set the foreground and dont forget that "foregroundC" is now an object

var foregroundC = new SolidColor();
			foregroundC.rgb.red = 255;
			foregroundC.rgb.green = 255;
			foregroundC.rgb.blue = 255;
			foregroundColor = foregroundC;

so then in this line, you can refer to that object:

textItemRef.color= foregroundC

I put that under the line for font size and it worked.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by dcast99

Coming into this late, and I dont know if this was answered or not but, I found out how to change the font color, first set the foreground and dont forget that "foregroundC" is now an object

var foregroundC = new SolidColor();
            foregroundC.rgb.red = 255;
            foregroundC.rgb.green = 255;
            foregroundC.rgb.blue = 255;
            foregroundColor = foregroundC;

so then in this line, you can refer to that object:

textItemRef.color= foregroundC

I put that under the line for font size and it worked.

It's never too late to share knowledge. Welcome to Retouch Pro and thanks for contributing.

[nik0teen]

is there a CS5 version of this script available
this one doesn't seem to work with CS5
Many Tnx

[csuebele]

Originally Posted by nik0teen

is there a CS5 version of this script available
this one doesn't seem to work with CS5
Many Tnx

Try changing the very first line of the script to:

#target photoshop

[nik0teen]

tnx works ok now but text was so small i couldnt see it, but made action to include script and works fine now tnx again

[csuebele]

It's been a while since I wrote the script. Lots of things I could improve upon. Text is always a bit tricky in that it's not tied to px but to units such as inches, which is relative to pixels depending upon image resolution. I made a new script for work that converts all images to 11" inch max length without resampling. That was the text is always the same size in relation to the image no matter what the pixel dimension.

[pigor]

Hi,

this script is excellent, but I have one question - how can I change date format?
I wolud like date format to be DAY:MONTH:YEAR

Thank You

[csuebele]

It depends if you want the month as a number or spelled out in some way. Just a number would be easier. you would replace line 24 in my original posting with this line:

timeDate = dateString.substring(27,29) + ':' + dateString.substring(24,26) + ':' + dateString.substring(19,23);

If you wanted the month spelled out you would have to create a switch clause and write out each month ho you would want it to look and reference it with the number of each month.

[pigor]

Great, Thank You csuebele fof quick answer and solution,

Best regards from Croatia

[dwd]

Hi CSuebele, I try to put the day in front of date-time stamp
but I fail to get the correct day for the date, below is my addition line in your script
Scripting is new for me, Please advice... THANKS

var d=new Date()
var weekday=new Array(7)
weekday[0]="Sunday"
weekday[1]="Monday"
weekday[2]="Tuesday"
weekday[3]="Wednesday"
weekday[4]="Thursday"
weekday[5]="Friday"
weekday[6]="Saturday"

for (var i = 0; i <docRef.info.exif.length; i++)
{
dateString = docRef.info.exif[i].toString()

if (dateString.substring(0,18) == 'Date Time Original')
{

d = new Date(dateString.substring(19,23), (dateString.substring(24,26))-1, dateString.substring(27,29))

var n = weekday[d.getDay()]
timeDate = d.getDay() + ' ' + n + ', ' + dateString.substring(27,29) + '-' + dateString.substring(24,26) + '-' + dateString.substring(19,23) + ' ' + dateString.substring(30,35)
}