Re: Photoshop action scripts
Re: Photoshop action scripts
- Subject: Re: Photoshop action scripts
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:08:12 EST
Here we go again...
1. Photoshop is totally scriptable. Just not totally AppleScriptable,
although you can trigger any photoshop script from an applescript (Photoshop
versions 5 - 6), and you can script anything a user can do with photoshop's
scripting. This was designed this way for a couple different reasons -- the
first and foremost is crossplatform feasibility (photoshop under WinDoze runs
the same scripting as the Mac version). Second, the scripting is infinitely
easier for the typical graphic artist to understand than AppleScript is
(anyone noticed that most of us here on the list are what might be called
'programmers,' at least in relationship to the list?
2. Since Photoshop's scripts are savable as stand-alone applications, you can
get at them that way, too...
3. There are other programs out there that will do whatever you need to do
through photoshop, if you insist that it has to be done as a pure
AppleScript. Depending on your needs, they range from Corel's Corel
PHOTO-PAINTb" 8 for Power MacintoshB. (a photoshop competitor) to
GraphicConverter to the government's own offering whose name eludes me (a
photoshop-competitor free from the US Gov't). Again, depending on your goals,
some of these apps are free or very cheap (under $30 a license).
To all things under the sun, there is a solution.
The question becomes is it the best solution?
=-= Marc
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As I understand it, you have to buy Scripter and pay $1000-4000, depending
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on how many graphic artists work for you and how many computers you have for
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them, for PhotoScripter, to make Photoshop scriptable. Somehow I don't see
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you rushing to do that, Emmanuel. ;-) I believe Jon Pugh said that a
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forthcoming version of Photoshop for OS X will have its own scripting
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implementation.