I'm trying to develop a simple tool for translators (who have no Photoshop) but I can't find any library that supports layers.

I need to open the PSD file, translate the text layer and save it as it was. Unfortunately, there is no layer support for the available libraries. So I'm asking for a workaround.

Let's say I get from our graphics team the image without text, just a layered background. The translator opens this image with my tool, and I render the text over the image, saving this rendered text as a separate image. I would like to automate the loading process for our graphics team.

Is there an easy way to script (or automate somehow) the following?:

• open the multi-layer image with e.g. button background (without text)
• look for a file (in the same directory) with a certain prefix (like button_en.psd)
• open this prefixed file (with the translated text) and put it over the background image as a top layer

Thanks for the tips

I'm trying to develop a simple tool for translators who don't have Photoshop but I can't find any library that supports layers.

I need to open the PSD file, translate the text layer and save it as it was. Unfortunately, there is no layer support for the available libraries. So I'm asking for a workaround.

Let's say I get an image from our graphics team that's just a layered background. The translator opens this image with my tool and it renders the text over the image and then save the rendered text as a separate image. I would like to automate the loading process for our graphics team.

Is there an easy way to script (or automate somehow) the following?:

• open the multi-layer image with e.g. button background (without text)
• look for a file (in the same directory) with a certain prefix (like button_en.psd)
• open this prefixed file (with the translated text) and put it over the background image as a top layer

Thanks for the tips

I'm trying to develop a simple tool for translators (who has no Photoshop) but I can't find any library which supports layers. In this tool I wanted to open the PSD file, modify the text layer (translate it) and save it as it was. Unfortunately without layer support of the available libraries I'm asking for a workaround.

Let's say I will get from our graphics team the image without text, just a layered background. The translator will open this image in my tool and I will render the text over the image. Then I'll save this rendered text as a separate image. Then I would like to automate the loading process for our graphics team.
 

Is there an easy way how to script (or automate somehow) the following  ?

• open the multi-layer image with e.g. button background (without text)
• look for a file (in the same directory) with a certain prefix (like button_en.psd)
• open this prefixed file (with the translated text) and put it over the background image as a top layer

Thanks for the tips

I'm trying to develop a simple tool for translators (who have no Photoshop) but I can't find any library that supports layers. 

I need to open the PSD file, translate the text layer and save it as it was. Unfortunately, there is no layer support for the available libraries. So I'm asking for a workaround.

Let's say I get from our graphics team the image without text, just a layered background. The translator opens this image with my tool, and I render the text over the image, saving this rendered text as a separate image. I would like to automate the loading process for our graphics team.

Is there an easy way to script (or automate somehow) the following?:

• open the multi-layer image with e.g. button background (without text)
• look for a file (in the same directory) with a certain prefix (like button_en.psd)
• open this prefixed file (with the translated text) and put it over the background image as a top layer

Thanks for the tips