Adobe Photoshop Scripting Guide

This Adobe Photoshop Scripting Guide provides an introduction to scripting Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 on Mac OS® and Windows®.
Chapter 1 covers the basic conventions used in this manual.
Chapter 2 covers a brief overview of scripting, how to execute scripts, and the Photoshop object model.
Chapter 3 covers Photoshop-specific objects and components and describes advanced techniques for scripting the Photoshop application. Code examples are provided in three languages: AppleScript, VBScript and JavaScript.
Chapter 4 covers the Action Manager, which allows you to write scripts that target Photoshop functionality that is not otherwise accessible in the scripting interface.

This Adobe Photoshop Scripting Guide contents :
Introduction - About this Manual - Conventions in this Guide - Photoshop Scripting - Basics - Scripting Overview - Why use scripts instead of actions? - Scripting Support in Photoshop - JavaScript support - Executing other scripts - Startup scripts - Executing JavaScripts from AS or VBS - Photoshop Object Model - Containment hierarchy - Application and document classes - Layer classes - Layer Comp class - Channel class
Selection class - History State class - Document Info class - Path Item, Sub Path Item, and Path Point classes - Preferences class - Notifier class - Count Item class - Color Sampler class - Measurement Scale class - The containment hierarchy and the - Photoshop user interface - Additional objects - Constants - Creating a sample Hello World script - Creating and running an AppleScript - Creating and running a VBScript - Creating and running a JavaScript - Scripting Photoshop - Viewing Photoshop Objects, Commands, and Methods - Viewing Photoshop’s AppleScript dictionary - Viewing Photoshop’s type library (VBS) - Targeting and Referencing the Application Object
Creating New Objects in a Script - Setting the Active Object - Setting the active document - Setting the active layer - Setting the active channels - Opening a Document - Opening a file with default file format - Specifying file formats to open - Saving a Document - Setting Application Preferences - Allowing or Preventing Dialogs - Working with the Photoshop Object Model - Using the Application object - Using the Document object - Manipulating a document object - Working with layer objects - Creating an ArtLayer object - Referencing ArtLayer objects - Working with Layer Set objects - Linking layer objects - Applying styles to layers - Using the Text Item object
Determining a layer’s kind - Adding and manipulating text in a Text Item object - Working with Selection objects - Creating and defining a selection - Stroking the selection border - Inverting selections - Expanding, contracting, and feathering selections - Filling a selection - Loading and storing selections - Working with Channel objects - Changing channel types - Using the Document Info object - Using history state objects - Using Notifier objects - Using the PathItem object - Working with color objects - Solid color classes - Using hex values for RGB color - Getting and converting colors - Comparing colors - Getting a Web-safe color - Working with Filters - Other filters - Understanding Clipboard Interaction - Using the copy and paste commands - Using the copy merged command/method - Working with Units - Unit values - Special unit value types - AppleScript unit considerations - Using unit values in calculations - Unit value usage - Setting ruler and type units in a script
Sample Workflow Automation JavaScripts - Advanced Scripting - Working with document preferences - Applying color to a text item - Applying a wave filter - Defining the area of a selection object - Applying a MotionBlur filter - Action Manager - The ScriptListener Plug-In - Installing ScriptListener - Action Manager Scripting Objects - Recording a Script using ScriptListener - Using the Action Manager from JavaScript - Using the Action Manager from a VBS Script - Running JavaScript-based Action Manager code from VBScript - Running JavaScript-based Action Manager code from AppleScript - Using ScriptListener to find event IDs and class IDs - Index
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