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🔲 Player Alignment Modes 11 12 13

• Works with a user-defined box.
• Aligns the cutout top and bottom to the box (like mode 4), unless the player edges stick out—then it scales to fit.
• Mode 11 = top align
• Mode 12 = vertical center align
• Mode 13 = bottom align

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🔲 Team Alignment Modes 3 4 5

• Works with a user-defined box, same as the new player alignment modes.
• Allows SPA to auto-scale an entire cutout team to fit the box. With team modes 1 and 2, SPA aligns the entire canvas, which can retain transparency borders when using a cutout team.
• The original modes 1 and 2 are better for non-cutout teams; modes 3, 4, and 5 are better for cutout teams.
• Mode 3 = top align
• Mode 4 = vertical center align
• Mode 5 = bottom align

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🖼️ JPG + PSB/PSD/TIF

• Save a flattened JPG plus a layered file (PSB, PSD, or TIF) in the same batch.

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📂 Multiple Templates from a Folder (Like the Background Swapper plugin)

• Select a folder of templates → SPA builds composites for every CSV row across all templates.
• Only need one row per player in the CSV (no TEMPLATE FILE header required).
• Still supports multiple rows per image + TEMPLATE FILE header when you need per-template differences (e.g., one runs an action, one doesn’t).

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🎨 Two-Tone (or More) Text in One Layer

• Auto-detects spaces between words.
• Adjusts text properties (color, font, spacing, etc.) to match new word lengths.
• Example: First name orange + last name blue will stay split correctly even if character counts change.

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📁 Run from Sub-Folders when using a CSV mode

• Finally implemented—YAY! 🎉

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🔤 Replace Text in Multiple Layers

• If multiple text layers share the same name (e.g., LASTNAME), all will update from the CSV.

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🧩 Smart Object Text Editing

• SPA will edit text inside inside smart objects named ending with SPASMART.
• Only smart objects with SPASMART in the name will be opened and scanned for text layers (to avoid slowing things down).

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⚡ Pre Template Actions

• Action Selection Dropdown in UI
• New CSV header: TEMPLATE ACTION (1–5)
• Run Photoshop actions on the template before text updates or images import.
• Note: Post-Actions still available too.

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📝 Auto NAME Concatenation

• If your CSV has FIRSTNAME + LASTNAME but no NAME, SPA will automatically join them and use that for text replacement in the template file NAME layer.
• If all 3 exist, the NAME header value is used.

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✂️ Auto-Crop to Transparency

• For alignment modes 1–6 & 11–13, SPA crops off extra space so scaling is tighter to edges.
• (Requires clean cutouts—stray pixels will still count as edges.)

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🔄 CSV Reload on Batch Start

• If you save changes to a CSV after importing, SPA will reload the updated file when the batch starts.

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📊 Auto-Sort by TEMPLATE FILE Column

• If your CSV includes the TEMPLATE FILE column and the data is staggered, SPA will give an option to auto-sort by that column when the batch is started.
• This dramatically speeds up workflows because SPA won’t need to repeatedly close and re-open templates.
• Instead, it keeps each template open while processing all rows that use it.

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🧪 Quick SPA Layer Test

• Under the Template Setup screen, there is now a one-click template layer test called “Analyze SPA Layers.”
• This scans the entire template and reports which SPA layers it finds and whether they are set up correctly.