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I've always had a bit of an axe to grind with Adobe over their near-complete lack of support for AppleScript under Photoshop. And I'm not sure that'll ever change, or at least not because of anything I'll say in this article.
However, there are two ways to overcome Photoshop's deaf and dumb attitude toward our favorite scripting language. The first is to buy Main Event Software's PhotoScripter product which makes Photoshop 'AppleScript-aware'.
The second is to hijack Photoshop's built-in automation routines, called 'actions'. Lucky for you and me, although PhotoShop snubs AppleScript for the most part, it does have two commands in its paltry dictionary: 'open' and 'do script'. That's two commands enough to get into trouble. Let's get started, shall we?
I'm going to show you how to use a tiny bit of AppleScript to make Photoshop do your imaging grunt work.
First, open a photo and choose 'New Action' from the Actions palette.
T.J.
tj@tjmahaffey.com
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