# Advanced-ish PhotoShop help;

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 24, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-ish-photoshop-help/518739 "2009-11-24T04:23:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-ish-photoshop-help/518739/1 "2009-11-24T04:23:18Z")

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I have 200 photos I need to resize and ad a logo to, in the corner. I know how to batch resize, but I can’t figure out how to batch copy-paste between documents. Barring that, is there a way to put all 200 pics in one document as 200 layers?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![sharding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sharding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sharding)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-ish-photoshop-help/518739/2 "2009-11-24T05:12:42Z")

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You should be able to do it with File-\>Place if your needs are simple. You can do a lot more if you write a script (I’ve done some in Javascript; IIRC AppleScript and VBScript are also supported, probably only on their respective native platforms). If you do a lot of batch processing in Photoshop, it’s worth learning how to use the scripting functionality.

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**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-ish-photoshop-help/518739/3 "2009-11-24T05:29:13Z")

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Check outtutorials on batch watermarking. Something like the following link would get you close:

[http://www.dphotojournal.com/watermarking-adding-copyright-with-photoshop/](http://www.dphotojournal.com/watermarking-adding-copyright-with-photoshop/)

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**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-ish-photoshop-help/518739/4 "2009-11-25T18:56:19Z")

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Although I haven’t used it myself (beyond just trying it out to verify that it worked), there is a powerful, free suite of tools from ImageMagick that does what you want. This is a tool you run outside of Photoshop or GIMP, specifically, from a command line (cmd prompt in Windows). The suite is available for Windows, Mac, and Unix.

[http://www.imagemagick.org](http://www.imagemagick.org)