Re: Combinging Images with Photoshop
Re: Combinging Images with Photoshop
- Subject: Re: Combinging Images with Photoshop
- From: "Roger Howard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:50:13 -0800
Steven Kreuzer wrote:
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I am running Photoshop 6.1 and have a few hundred 32 pixel x 32 pixel
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images that I need to combine into 1 large document, one right next
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to the other. I would prefer not to cut and paste and align them by
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hand, as it will be very time consuming. Does anyone know how to do
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this with scriptmaster and applescript, or photoshop actions. Please
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Let me know.
Steven,
While PhotoScripter will certainly accomplish what you want, I've also done a lot of great stuff with pure AppleScript actions, albeit requiring a bit more setup at first in Photoshop.
I have a large collection of very simple actions, many of which are simply a single step of a common function in Photoshop recorded as an action. For instance, I have a "Nudge 10 Left" action...
If you setup a few basic actions mapping to commands in Photoshop (instead of larger, more complex, and more easily broken macro actions) then you could easily script Photoshop in a very granular way.
I'll leave it to you to decide what steps you should package into simple actions, which can then be called from your scripts... if your process is as simple as you describe then you could do the whole thing in pure Actions actually. However, I assume you don't actually mean one next to the other, but actually arrange them in rows and columns - in which case you could still do it in Actions, but it would require a bit of setup compared to the flexibility you'd get with more abstracted functions.
Of course, nothing beats PhotoScripter and if you plan to do much Photoshop scripting it's cost is easy to justify.
Currently, I'm playing with AppleScript and ImageMagick under OSX... still getting started with it, but there is tremendous potential there for stuff that Photoshop is simply not the best tool for (automation in general - it's much more user-oriented).
Hope this helps, enjoy!
Roger Howard
Digital Media Specialist
The J. Paul Getty Museum
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