Forum: Photography


Subject: Script and dropplet with Phostoshop

lejimi opened this issue on Sep 29, 2004 ยท 7 posts


DHolman posted Wed, 29 September 2004 at 8:25 AM

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Sam - Yes, I understand. You're not using PS scripts, you're using PS actions. An action is like a macro. There really isn't any decision branching available in an action. You can't say "If something equals X then do this, but if it equals Y then do the other this other thing." There is a scripting pack for Photoshop 7 that allows real scripting (Photoshop CS has it built in). It allows you to write programs in Java, Visual Basic or Applescript. It really helps if you know how to program to do what you want. Do a Google search for "photoshop 7 scripting guide" and you'll find a lot of references. I've included a link to a script that does resizing the way you want (it knows the difference between portrait and landscape images). Note that I have never used this script. Good luck! -=>Donald