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Increase your productivity with photospop scripts:
Photoshop is widely known as a high end graphic editor. Brothers Thomas Knoll and John Knoll began development on Photoshop in 1987. Version 1 was released by Adobe in 1990. Early versions of Photoshop were branded as Knoll Software releases before partnership with Adobe was established. Install files for Photoshop 1.0 would fit on one 1.4 MB floppy disk at the time. Furthermore, the entire Photoshop 0.63 application with online manual fits comfortably on an 800 KB diskette and still leaves 200 KB of disk space free.
With photoshop you can create high quality image manipulation and thank to the numerous filters you can easily emulate the kind of jobs previously typical of the photo labs. You can emulate techniques typical of the painters and designers.
One of the main benefits of phoptoshop is the ability to work on different layers. This permits to manipulate separately more images instead of working on one single complex image.
Photoshop is a raster image editor, which on the contrary of the vector graphics works directly on the pixels.
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons, which are all based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics.
A raster graphics image, digital image, or bitmap, is a data file or structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of colour. A bitmap is characterized by the width and height of the image in pixels and the number of bits per pixel, which determines the number of colors it can represent. A colored raster image (or pixmap) will usually have pixels with between one and eight bits for each of the red, green, and blue components. The quality of a raster image is determined by the total number of pixels (resolution), and the amount of information in each pixel.
Although primarily designed to edit images for paper-based printing, Photoshop is used increasingly to produce images for the World Wide Web.
Many people are not familiar with the power of Photoshop Scripts and aren't aware that there are many excellent sample scripts and learning guides included with Photoshop.
So Why Use Scripts Instead Of Actions?
Photoshop Scripts are Actions on steroids, and Scripts can be super smart. From the official Adobe Scripting Guide come these examples of scripting power:
- You can add conditional logic, so that the script automatically makes "decisions" based on the current situation. For example, you could write a script that decides which color border to add depending on the size of the selected area in an image: "If the selected area is smaller than 2 x 4 inches, add a green border; otherwise add a red border."
- A single script can perform actions that involve multiple applications. For example, you could target both Photoshop CS2 and another Adobe Creative Suite 2 Application in the same script.
- You can open, save, and rename files using scripts.
Because of the way that Scripts can instruct Photoshop to automatically execute a set of desired actions or commands, scripts can be very useful for carrying out repetitive tasks. For instance, you could use a script to close all of your current documents without saving and without prompting to save changes, or you could use a script to convert a document color profile to sRGB, launch Save For Web and then reset the color profile after you exit Save For Web.
For a complete understanding of the power and complexity of scripts read through the Scripting documentation that came with your Photoshop application installation. This includes The Photoshop AppleScript Reference.pdf, The Photoshop JavaScript Reference Guide.pdf, The Photoshop Scripting Guide.pdf, and The Photoshop VBScript Reference Guide.pdf. All of them can be found in the Photoshop/Scripting Guide folder (CS & CS2 versions).
The PDFs are also available online at Adobe's Photoshop Scripting Documentation page
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