Stop to add text during action playback

I want to create an action where I create a stop, add text (patient's name for medical photos) which is automatically formatted to my preference of font size, color, etc. I can then hit the action play button to run the remainder of the action command, which will join and size photos from different files for printing. I can do everything but add the patient's name.

I am having no luck in doing that currently and would appreciate help.

Thanks

You can set it up such that you'd have the patient's name ready in a seperate layer before you play the action. Later on during the action, where you have to put the patient's name, make it use that layer. Of course, edit the action accordingly.

Thankyou !mo0chan!:

I did try setting a different action for opening a new document the size I wanted and setting a stop at the end with the message, Enter patient name and date". I could not figure out how to get the action to set the font to the size, color and position I wanted. I couldn't seem to set those parameters as part of the action, however it seems logical that I should be able to do that somehow. If I could figure that out I could then create another action to join that document to the photo documents and flatten the layers, print, etc.

You can set all these parameters at action writing. Set it up and enter some dummy text, like "Last Name, First name, Mi, YYMMDD" then insert your stop command to change that text...

To learn about actions, only one tutorial is needed: you can download it at http://www.atncentral.com/installing.htm