How to get/make a selection in Photoshop 7

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#1

Hi all,

Everything is in the title.

Any one can help ?

TIA.

#2

The following will make a 10x10 square selection.


tell application "Adobe Photoshop 7.0"
	select document 1 region {{0, 0}, {10, 0}, {10, 10}, {0, 10}}
end tell

each coordinate in the region list is a corner point in the selection. you can add more coordinates to change the shape of the selection.

all coordinates are set in pixels.

hth -john

#3

Many thanks, John.

Works like a charm to set a selection.

Now, I need to learn how to GET a selection?

Any one?

#4

What do you mean by “get” a selection?

#5

I mean :

  • open a image file in PSD
  • make a selection with my little hand
  • then get the bounds of this selection by script

something like:
[b]get bounds of selection of document 1[/b]
witch does not work in PSD.

TIA.

#6

That’s not something that is currently scriptable.
You can calculate the size of the current selection (by creating a new document with the contents and then getting the height/width of that), but you can’t get the selection points.

I believe that’s because selections are not restricted to a rectangular selection. This would fail if you had any sort of shape to your selection.

#7

I’m affraid the last solution left to me is to use the GUI Scripting.

Anyway, thanks for help.

#8

ionah,

Were you able to get the selection by using GUI? How did you do it? I would like to do the same thing.

Thanks.

Scott