Modify text layer in a TIFF (or PSD) image

[stylesheets]

Hi,

I need to process some images:

• Read a PSD (or TIFF) image. My images consist of a background image and a text layer (with PSD styles applied to it)

• Modify a text layer without losing the layer styling

• Save to PNG

I'm really new to ImageMagick, but it seems from other posts in this forum that this can be done.

Ideally, I need to proceed either via command line or using .NET

Any help on how to do this would be more than welcome!

Cheers!

[snibgo]

IM is a raster image processor. It can read raster images from PSD files, and some metadata. But a PSD text layer doesn't (as far as I know) store the text in a form that IM can read or write.

To modify the text layer of a PSD, a Photoshop script seems the obvious tool.

[stylesheets]

IM is a raster image processor. It can read raster images from PSD files, and some metadata. But a PSD text layer doesn't (as far as I know) store the text in a form that IM can read or write.

To modify the text layer of a PSD, a Photoshop script seems the obvious tool.

I'd like to stay away from photoshop, would this be possible if I used TIFF files?

Thank you!

[Bonzo]

I would delete the text layer and start from fresh. I do not see how you can read any styling etc. from a raster image.

You could possibly use some OCR to read the text.

I'm really new to ImageMagick, but it seems from other posts in this forum that this can be done.

What are these posts?

[snibgo]

As Bonzo says, if your text has been rasterized, then OCR might get the text back, as text.

... would this be possible if I used TIFF files?

Try it and see. Create a text layer in PS, save as both PSD and TIFF. Then try:

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identify -verbose yourfile.psd
identify -verbose yourfile.tiff

Does your text appear in the output? Also try exiftool.