Hope the title does not sound to confusing. What i'm trying to do with a script: Open Smart object layer in working file. Gets first layer name, makes first layer visible, updates smart object. Gets name and active layer from…
Is there a (better) way to determine if a selection is present in a layer in Photoshop without having using a try/catch on the selection.bounds? try { var sel = app.activeDocument.selection.bounds; } catch(e) { var sel = undefined; alert("No selection");…
I am frequently in a situation where, after finishing work on multiple open photoshop documents, I want to play a specific action on a few of them. The document names ALWAYS match a pattern that should be pretty easy to…
is it possible to copy the current active layer name in Photoshop and use it as the file name for a 'Save As' command in a Photoshop action? Export Layers to Files isn't suitable because I only want to save…
I'm learning JavaScript for use with photoshop. Im trying to select a layer in a document using a wildcard. I come from a maxscript background so using "*" as a wildcard in strings. var srcDoc = app.activeDocument; var a =…
I have a script in Photoshop, but I need one thing. I want to get (parse) the width and height data from a file. How can I do that? File can be txt or xml. I use ExtendScript Toolkit from…
I currently have a script which processes .exr files, and when manually opening an exr file you are given the option of opening with transparency or with alpha. However, when scripting the opening of an .exr you are given no…
This script is part of a larger Photoshop action we use to process our product shots after they have been edited in Photoshop. I recently discovered this part of the action (a script) had stopped working properly. It is supposed…
Is there any way to run Photoshop CS5's "auto color" function (Image->Auto Color, shift+ctrl+B) from a script written in Javascript? Looking at the "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Javascript Scripting Reference", I see autoLevels() and autoContrast(), but no autoColor(). I tried calling…
I am a newbie, and have a pile of data strings (sentences). I'm trying to divide each sentence into substrings where each string's length does not exceed the length of longest single word in that sentence, and returning all words…