System for updating photoshop files/sales listings?
January 7, 2016 3:08 PM Subscribe
What's your system when you need to update a ton of photos for listings using photoshop? What's the most efficient way to do this? Can I reduce this workload?
I have an Etsy shop. Occasionally I make improvements - such as upping resolution or a new style of photo - or adding "Sample" on things. Currently I end up procrastinating and take a long time to update all of them (72 listings currently). I do have quite a few files for each listing, but the process is pretty streamlined from start to finish for NEW files which I have a new system for, but going back and updating old ones is super tedious.
Current updating system: I just end up going listing by listing, usually newest to oldest, updating and re-uploading each item as I get to them. (Same goes for listing description, but Etsy doesn't have a way to bulk upload descriptions, only titles.)
Is there a more organized way to do this? Or will it just be tedious?
Current system from start to finish: Make the print, save the photoshop, save as PDF version, save as JPG version, open my listing templates with frames (a detailed one and a regular one), size down the JPG a bit and save, drop in my photos and size them into the frames, save those as JPGs, drop a "sample" text over the JPG and re-save that version. Drop it all into a folder, upload it. It's pretty efficient from start to finish but not efficient when I have to go back and re-do stuff when I update something. (Yes, I should have thought about all this from the beginning, but you know how you end up making improvements.)
Alternately, do I need all 3 photos or is the first detail and the sample print enough? Sample here, not self linked: etsy.me/1O7Ea6y
I have an Etsy shop. Occasionally I make improvements - such as upping resolution or a new style of photo - or adding "Sample" on things. Currently I end up procrastinating and take a long time to update all of them (72 listings currently). I do have quite a few files for each listing, but the process is pretty streamlined from start to finish for NEW files which I have a new system for, but going back and updating old ones is super tedious.
Current updating system: I just end up going listing by listing, usually newest to oldest, updating and re-uploading each item as I get to them. (Same goes for listing description, but Etsy doesn't have a way to bulk upload descriptions, only titles.)
Is there a more organized way to do this? Or will it just be tedious?
Current system from start to finish: Make the print, save the photoshop, save as PDF version, save as JPG version, open my listing templates with frames (a detailed one and a regular one), size down the JPG a bit and save, drop in my photos and size them into the frames, save those as JPGs, drop a "sample" text over the JPG and re-save that version. Drop it all into a folder, upload it. It's pretty efficient from start to finish but not efficient when I have to go back and re-do stuff when I update something. (Yes, I should have thought about all this from the beginning, but you know how you end up making improvements.)
Alternately, do I need all 3 photos or is the first detail and the sample print enough? Sample here, not self linked: etsy.me/1O7Ea6y
Response by poster: Yeah, I have actions for whatever I can, but I guess I'm trying to figure out a streamlined process to make things to smoother and faster and making sure I don't forget something/a listing/any other changes I should make at this step instead of re-doing the whole process again.
posted by Crystalinne at 6:31 PM on January 7, 2016
posted by Crystalinne at 6:31 PM on January 7, 2016
Smart objects! You're on Photoshop CC, right? Take a product photo and embed it as a smart object inside the frame. I would then repeat that in the same file for every other product, and here's why — Generator! If you name each of those layers a specific way (i.e. filename.jpg) Photoshop will automatically spit out a file (once you turn on that function).
There is a trick with duplicating smart objects, because you have to unlink each copy before you can link it to a new file. I don't remember the exact steps because I don't have Photoshop CC at home.
I would then make another document for the other frame, and then one that has "Sample" plus each product (again, as a smart object) in a separate layer group (folder), again naming each one appropriately for generator.
This might be a lot to take in so feel free to memail me if you need me to walk you through things.
posted by O9scar at 9:59 PM on January 7, 2016
There is a trick with duplicating smart objects, because you have to unlink each copy before you can link it to a new file. I don't remember the exact steps because I don't have Photoshop CC at home.
I would then make another document for the other frame, and then one that has "Sample" plus each product (again, as a smart object) in a separate layer group (folder), again naming each one appropriately for generator.
This might be a lot to take in so feel free to memail me if you need me to walk you through things.
posted by O9scar at 9:59 PM on January 7, 2016
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posted by raw sugar at 3:28 PM on January 7, 2016