A productivity script and Photoshop template for generating Live Events promotion graphics for Virgin Media TV.

“Live Events Packager” demo

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