Adobe Photoshop Scripting
Automate tasks using Actions to save time
Want to save some time so you’re not doing repetitive things in Adobe Photoshop? Look no further than the Actions palette. Let’s say you to need to adjust settings, add a filter, resize, or any of the other many options in Photoshop to a large number of photos. Instead of having to go through each photo one at a time, applying effects, resizing, or adjusting levels for example, it’s much easier to edit one photo and record the actions. Then, we can apply that action to an entire folder of images.
Powerful Task Automation with Photoshop Scripting
They're easy to use and can save you a lot of time, but at the end of the day, they aren't very powerful and offer very low versatility. That's where Photoshop's scripting features go into action. We're going to show you the almost endless possibilities that Photoshop scripting offers.
Get Better Output with Automate and Scripts Menus
Learn how to automatically output multiple copies of an image in different formats (resizing along the way); print one page with multiple versions of an image; and create diptychs and triptychs.
Mass Image Resizing Using Photoshop Actions
Learn how to save time and resize an unlimited number of images with a single command in Photoshop CS3.
Working with Smart Objects in Photoshop
This tutorial will walk us through the basics of using Smart Objects. We will use this powerful new tool in Photoshop CS3 to create a composite sheet for printing multiple digital photos on a single document.
Data/Mail Merge in Photoshop
This is a very rare tutorial that will teach you how to use Photoshops Data Merge tool to perform tasks simular to that of Microsoft Word's Mail Merge. Enabling you to create multiple documents from data set or excel spreadsheets.
Batch Watermarking & Adding Copyright
This photoshop tutorial will show you how you can easily add transparent watermark and copyright info to a whole folder of photos.
Photoshop scripts - An introduction
This tutorial is an introduction to Photoshop scripts and will teach you the basics of scripting for Photoshop so that you can start creating your own scripts.
The Scripting Environment
This tutorial guides you through Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit, scripting reference documents and guides you through the classic hello world program.
Automatic Thumbnail
This tutorial complete with an ActionScript, will relieve this problem for good.
Resizing loads of photos
Resize all your photos that need to be resized in a few clicks with the Adobe Photoshop CS2 image processor.
Script Events Manager - Auto Stroke Paths
Utilize Photoshop CS2 Events Script Manager combined with a simple Action to automate stroking paths.
Working With Photoshop Scripts
How to work with Photoshop scripts. Links to free scripts are provided.
Programming Photoshop Plugins
Get an overview and some resources in creating your own plugin for Photoshop.
Layer Comps
This lesson is a clean and straight technical tutorial. Photoshop CS and CS2 has this wonderful scripting feature- basically it's a good method to check different variations of your compositions. If you use this tool you will not have to arrange every single composition by indicating evey single layer's visibility.