Scripting with CS2

bham

Anybody here use it, understand it, have links to places they have found useful in learning about it. I want to learn more about it.

Need a few good places to start. I have looked and so far everything I found I can't really understand. But hey I was the same way with html, css, and a few other things, but not long after looking at dgrins customization and doing a little, I began to understand the basics and the relationship between those things. Now I can read about those things and I understand. I am looking to get that same basic understanding.

Thanks

bham

bham wrote:

Anybody here use it, understand it, have links to places they have found useful in learning about it. I want to learn more about it.

Need a few good places to start. I have looked and so far everything I found I can't really understand. But hey I was the same way with html, css, and a few other things, but not long after looking at dgrins customization and doing a little, I began to understand the basics and the relationship between those things. Now I can read about those things and I understand. I am looking to get that same basic understanding.

Thanks

I think I found one good resource but still looking for more.

luke_church

I use COM interop/OLE scripting through C# for the production of things like SmugGateway and increasingly for the image analysis work that I do.

Photoshop scripting is not a gentle place to start if you're not familiar with another scripting language. I would recomend that you learn Javascript (I never thought I would write that sentence!) first, the syntax will then carry you across to understand the DOM (Document Object Model) that Photoshop uses. The Photoshop scripting guide is relatively gentle in its introductions, but the detailed documents are references for people who already understand OLE scripting.

If you're a programmer in a Windows OLE enabled language (Visual Basic, Delphi (I think), C#, C++) then I'd actually recomend scripting it through Visual Studio, the error reporting is weak, but at least you get Intellisense.

Documentation on Photoshop scripting is slightly distributed. For CS2 you'll actually want the documentation on Adobe Bridge as well.

The first thing you'll want to do is get inside Adobe's head as to the way it thinks about documents, layers, channels etc.

Photoshop scripting guides:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/photoshop/sdk/index_scripting.html

Bridge (Javascript) guide:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/pdfs/bridge_javascript_ref.pdf

Hope this helps, good luck.

Luke

Bodley

bham wrote:

I think I found one good resource but still looking for more.

Post'em when you find'em I'm still having trouble with open/save commands in batched actions

cletus

luke_church wrote:

The first thing you'll want to do is get inside Adobe's head as to the way it thinks about documents, layers, channels etc.

Photoshop scripting guides:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/photoshop/sdk/index_scripting.html

Bridge (Javascript) guide:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/pdfs/bridge_javascript_ref.pdf

Once you're comfortable with javascript take a look at the Adobe guides. Might not be the easiest read, but theres a lot of information in there!