Live Events Packager
A productivity script and Photoshop template for generating Live Events promotion graphics for Virgin Media TV.
Background
This was a workflow I designed to handle the very time consuming task of creating about 25 promotional graphics for a Live Event. It was a task handled by multiple designers in different departments, where getting consistency across all of the graphics during a quick turn around was very difficult. Now all the graphics can be created by one designer in a few hours.
Features
- Time saving Smart Objects. Only a master element needs to be changed to update all repeated elements on the artboards.
- Script efficiently exports the required artboards and names the files with the show title and current date.
- Real time preview of how the banners will look on the web.
- Script warns if the Photoshop template isn’t open.
- Accurately exports anamorphic D1 slide for standard definition playout system.
- Automatically exports 2 of the artboards as an animated GIF.
- User can choose a render destination in the UI.
- UI design, coding: Ryan Gilmore