Re: Photoshop action scripts
Re: Photoshop action scripts
- Subject: Re: Photoshop action scripts
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 09:09:22 +1100
On 5/2/02 4:08 AM +1000, email@hidden, email@hidden, wrote:
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Here we go again...
Indeed...
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1. Photoshop is totally scriptable. Just not totally AppleScriptable,
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although you can trigger any photoshop script from an applescript (Photoshop
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versions 5 - 6), and you can script anything a user can do with photoshop's
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scripting.
We've been through this argument dozens of times. The "we're scriptable,
just do it our way" school just won't die. Integrating Photoshop's actions
with AppleScript compared with something like PhotoScripter can be an
absolute pain. (One job I did both ways -- and someone else provided the
actions -- took something like five times as long to write using actions.)
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This was designed this way for a couple different reasons -- the
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first and foremost is crossplatform feasibility (photoshop under WinDoze runs
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the same scripting as the Mac version). Second, the scripting is infinitely
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easier for the typical graphic artist to understand than AppleScript is
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(anyone noticed that most of us here on the list are what might be called
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'programmers,' at least in relationship to the list?
The "easier" argument has one serious flaw: virtually every app that
implements its own actions/macro scheme knows better than the rest. The
result is that the user has to know half a dozen different schemes.
Actions have their place, but the idea that you have actions therefore you
can't have scripting is silly. Look at Illustrator: it has both.
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2. Since Photoshop's scripts are savable as stand-alone applications, you can
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get at them that way, too...
I'm not sure what that means...
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3. There are other programs out there that will do whatever you need to do
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through photoshop
I hadn't noticed many that did RGB->CMYK conversions with full support for
color management. I'm not sure many support AltiVec, either.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden