Re: Photoshop Action
Re: Photoshop Action
- Subject: Re: Photoshop Action
- From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:24:22 -0700
- Thread-topic: Photoshop Action
On 7/22/09 6:44 PM, "CYB" wrote:
> In my experience P[hoto]S[hop] is not precisely a good model of AppleScripting
Hi Carlos,
I can't help but respond to your assessment of Photoshop's AppleScript
implementation. Please don't take my comments as a personal attack on you or
your ideas. I only hope to point out that Photoshop's steep learning curve
can give the early impression that its scripting model is a convoluted and
confusing mess. And IT IS, at least at first.
Many who are active on this list will point out the many problems of
AppleScript itself as a language. I certainly agree with them. However,
among the many applications that utilize AppleScript for automating their
functionality, I would put Photoshop near the top of the list for usability,
power, consistency, organization, and completeness.
Of course, a program with capabilities as deep and broad as Photoshop will
of necessity impose a corresponding level of complexity to its scripting
interface. With persistence you'll see that those layers and layers and
layers of properties do make some sense and that you can do virtually
anything that can be accomplished through the GUI.
As a full-time scripter for the last eight years or so, Photoshop has been
one of the mainstays of my work and made scripting a pleasure (as far as it
can be). As I like to say to my friends and family, what I do "beats
working!" If the program did not present a "good model of AppleScripting,"
I'd have quit long ago and sought some other way to make a living.
If you have need for automating high-end image processing beyond what can be
done with actions and batch processing, I'd encourage you or anyone else to
persist with Photoshop until the "mess" makes more sense.
Stan C.
-- Who apologizes for sounding like a freakin' advertising copy writer.
Sorry....
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