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How do you open photoshop with javascript?

So I have a personal website, and I have a button that I want to use to open photoshop and run a script for me. How do I do this?

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    This has been up for awhile, but if the solution to this in node is to use a child_process.

    you can npm install child_process

    and the code to run executables would be to do

    const exec = require("child-process").execFile;

var process = exec("Photoshop.exe", [*add options here*], {cwd:"C:/*path to photoshop*"});

    you can do a lot of cool things afterwards like event handlers

    process.on("close", code => {
  console.log("process closed with code: "+ code)
})

process.on("exit", code => {
  console.log("process exited with code: "+ code)
})

process.stdout.on("data", data => {
  console.log(data)
})

    You can read the Docs here: https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html


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    It is not possible. It would pose a huge security risk to allow javascript to open programs on client side.

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  3. 0

    maybe this
    Code will open image in photoshop with the help of javascript. You just need to place your image file into photoshop->sample folder nothing more than that and you done with it.

    var fileRef = new File(app.path.toString() + “/Samples/test.jpg”); // ‘samples’ is a folder resides in Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop CS5samples
//open (fileRef);
var doc = open(fileRef);
// get document name (and remove file extension)
var name = tempName[0];
// convert to RGB; convert to 8-bpc; merge visible
doc.changeMode(ChangeMode.RGB);
doc.bitsPerChannel = BitsPerChannelType.EIGHT;
doc.artLayers.add();
doc.mergeVisibleLayers();

// rename layer; duplicate to new document
var layer = doc.activeLayer;
layer.name = tempName[0];
layer.duplicate(newDoc, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);
// close imported document
doc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
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