Adobe Photoshop CS2 Official JavaScript Reference [Paperback]

Adobe Systems Inc. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 28, 2005

Do you spend too much time doing repetitive production tasks such as placing and replacing images, resizing them, dragging them from one document to another, and preparing images for printing instead of being creative? Do you use Adobe Photoshop CS2 and have some experience with scripting? You're in luck. Since Adobe Creative Suite 2 was created with built-in support for scripting, virtually every repetitive or time-consuming task that creative professionals have to do in the Adobe Creative Suite can be streamlined with the help of a script. This book describes how to use JavaScript to manipulate and extend Adobe Photoshop within Adobe Creative Suite 2, and provides reference information for the JavaScript objects, properties, and functions defined by Adobe's applications. Now available in print for the first time, this scripting reference provides the information experienced JavaScript users need to create custom scripts for Photoshop, whether you're looking to automate Camera Raw options and settings, automatically resize and export large batches of images into your page-layout application, or want to automatically add metadata, like a copyright notice, to selected image files. These are just a few examples of how you can use Photoshop CS2's built-in scripting capabilities to save you from hours of repetitive tasks.

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Do you spend too much time doing repetitive production tasks such as placing and replacing images, resizing them, dragging them from one document to another, and preparing images for printing instead of being creative? Do you use Adobe Photoshop CS2 and have some experience with scripting? You're in luck. Since Adobe Creative Suite 2 was created with built-in support for scripting, virtually every repetitive or time-consuming task that creative professionals have to do in the Adobe Creative Suite can be streamlined with the help of a script. This book describes how to use JavaScript to manipulate and extend Adobe Photoshop within Adobe Creative Suite 2, and provides reference information for the JavaScript objects, properties, and functions defined by Adobe's applications. Now available in print for the first time, this scripting reference provides the information experienced JavaScript users need to create custom scripts for Photoshop, whether you're looking to automate Camera Raw options and settings, automatically resize and export large batches of images into your page-layout application, or want to automatically add metadata, like a copyright notice, to selected image files. These are just a few examples of how you can use Photoshop CS2's built-in scripting capabilities to save you from hours of repetitive tasks.

About the Author

Adobe Systems, Inc. is the world's leading provider of software solutions to create, manage and deliver high-impact, reliable digital content. The official Adobe CS2 scripting references are written by Adobe's own engineers and scripting experts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press (October 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321409701
• ISBN-13: 978-0321409706
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,113,653 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Why is this a product?, October 3, 2007

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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Official JavaScript Reference (Paperback)

This is basically a printed version of the PDF which is on your installer disc. If you lost your installer disc, you can also download it free of charge. Why anyone would pay money for it is beyond me.