Player Lister

There is nothing better than Pixnub’s Composites and Teams (CAT) stand alone app or EZ Team Builder plugin to generate team composites. But when the school, league, yearbook editor, or newspaper copywriter requires a list of players corresponding to the photo, it can take you long time (with a lot of typos) to manually write the caption that matches the photo.

With the Player Lister Photoshop plugin, your player name caption is generated automatically from the composite (as long as you have named the photos with the players’ names).

What Player Lister does:

Player Lister analyzes a CAT or EZ Team Builder composite to determine the player’s names from the composite layers contained in each row of players and produces the caption in an editable field that can be copied and pasted into the email to the school, league, yearbook, or newspaper. No manual typing required, so as long as the player’s name was spelled right for the filename used by CAT or EZ Team Builder, the caption names will be spelled correctly.

Helpful features:

• Player Lister checks to ensure the composite is a Pixnub CAT or EZ Team Builder generated composite.

• Omits the different types of “top” and “bottom” placement codes as part of the layer name from the player caption.

• List players by beginning with first row or back row.

• Use all row numbers for the caption or use “First Row” for row one and “Back Row” for the last row in the rear.

• The completed caption information can be edited to accommodate unique punctuation or spelling not reflected on the layer name.

• One click “Copy Caption” puts the caption string on the clipboard so you can paste it wherever you want it.

• “Analysis Notes for Review” displays potential issues like missing row numbers, unnamed player layers, empty image bounds, repeated name within a row, rows with invalid player information, and two images that overlap.

• “Check for Updates” opens a version check website to ensure you can download the current version.

How to use the Player Lister plugin:

• Open any completed CAT or EZ Team Builder composite file where the layer names are the player names but before you add additional rows like shadows, reflections, or shading.

• Press “Get Player Names from Layers” button. Player Lister analyzes the composite file and places the caption in the “Caption Preview - edit if necessary” text box.

• Adjust capitalization, spelling, and punctuation elements as necessary then click “Copy Caption”.

• Review the “Analysis Notes For Review” for any exceptions you should research in the composite.