The Create Image with PLT is used to insert files into Chiizu Photo Layout Templates (PLT files).
Chiizu PLT files contain an image background, foreground, captions and photo placeholders. These are created with Chiizu Photo Layout and are great at adding borders and logos to photos for all sorts of creative purposes. See the Chiizu Photo Layout product for more information on creating PLT files (Templates).
Here's an example showing how the layers can be combined to create a final image:
The images of Gary are inserted into the template with a background, foreground and a date caption in this case.
The transparency effect is supported so you can create fantasy photos with Photo File Workflow.
It's more common to use simple templates with borders, logos and filename captions (to enable reorders).
Please note:
| • | The input files must be JPG files |
| • | You create the PLT file using Chiizu Photo Layout |
| • | The input files are renamed with a new file extension - .done You can move and rename these back to JPG files using the Move Files action with the rename option. |
| • | The destination files are the new images created by combining the input image with the PLT |
The Create Image with PLT action uses the following settings:
Action Name - this is your description so you can identify its purpose.
Action Type - selected for this action.
Enable Action - you can turn actions off if you don't want them to run.
Source folder - this is the folder where the files that meet the Filespec (File Specification) will be copied from.
Dest folder - Destination folder - this is where the files will be copied to. Note they may be moved into a subfolder of this if "Create Destination Subfolder" is selected.
Files Specification - used to identify what files are to be used with this action.
See File Selection Criteria for details
PLT File: This is where you select the PLT file for the action. It will take the input files and insert it into this PLT. For more information on making PLT files please see Chiizu Photo Layout.
Rename files - This is where you define the target file name if you want it to be different then the input file name. See File and Folder Renaming for details.
Create destination subfolder - you can also place the files into a new subfolder using powerful naming tools - see File and Folder Renaming for details.
Schedule - this setting defines how often this action is run. It can be one of the following:
Continuous - the actions will be called over and over in a loop.
At Start - when Chiizu Photo File Workflow is started
At Shutdown - when Chiizu Photo File Workflow is closed
Barcode Scanned - if a barcode is scanned or text is entered into the barcode entry field the action is run
At this time - enter a time, it will be run daily at that time
On this interval - every X minutes the action will run
On Command - you can call a command by picking it from the menu to run one or more actions - see Action Commands
ID.TXT files - see ID.TXT Files for details
Add / Update Chiizu EXIF - see Chiizu EXIF for details
