Design the Web: Automating Web Graphics

Learn to composite hundreds of unique, data-driven graphics in Photoshop automatically, using variables and a simple text file.

Introduction

• Preview the final project
• About the exercise files

1. Creating Variables and Data Sets

• Turning Photoshop layers into variables
• Creating an internal data set
• Creating an external data set
• Setting a layer's visibility with variables

2. Exporting and Processing Graphics

• Exporting graphics from data sets
• Using spreadsheets to create data sets