Photoshop Scripting

I needed one day to make a mirror effect (you know when you place two mirrors one in front of the other and look at them) for 50 photos and started to make them by hand in my PS. I soon give up because it was taking to long and tried to find a solution that will be more easy to use and more quicker. Lucky me that Adobe thought of this kind of problems and offers us two ways to solve this issue.

The Methods

The first one: ACTIONS are very easy to use directly from PS. No programming required, no nothing, just record what you want to do and then apply that steps to a bunch of photos.

Another way is to use SCRIPTING is PS to achieve our desired output. Basically PS let’s us use scripts to automate most of the processes that we make by hand.

A script is a series of commands that tells Photoshop to perform a set of specified actions, such as applying different filters to selections in an open document. These actions can be simple and affect only a single object, or they can be complex and affect many objects in a Photoshop document. The actions can call Photoshop alone or invoke other applications…

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