Davide Barranca's UPX Scripting

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
October 21, 2021
1 reply
3361 views

Davide Barranca just released his new book on UPX scripting. If like his other books, this one should be great and a big help to those, like me, trying to learn UPX.

https://www.ps-scripting.com/uxp-react.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_id=uxplaunch

Actions and scripting

This topic has been closed for replies.

J

Jef Bracke

Inspiring

Did anybody already read the book? I'm wondering about what kind of information is there in terms of image processing.

I understand it's not the point of the book, but I'm wondering if he explains how image processing scripts will be written?

For example, does he explain how to write a script that... applies an adjustment layer, a trim, and/or a fit image, ... in UXP?

Interested in your thoughts/answers!

J

jazz-y

Legend

Request sample content from the author. Most likely this information is not in the book since it is not positioned as a book for beginners (it is assumed that you were previously familiar with extendScript or CEP).

J

Jef Bracke

Inspiring

I tried getting the sample content via the link on Davide's site but the link didn't work for me. Then contacted Davide ❤️ directly and he pretty much told me the same as what you're saying here.

His youtube series about UXP already explained a lot about batchplay, but it doesn't go into detail too much about what can be done with DOM/actionmanager code, it points us towards Jaroslav's Alchemist plugin which I understand to be similar to the scriptlistener plugin for "classical" extendscript. (Kuddo's to Adobe for the grant!)

I'm familiar with ExtendScript and ScriptUI, but not at all with CEP or UXP.

Where I'm stuck is, how to add any functionality to the plugin. Are there any resources on that?

How to learn how to build up batchplay actions, how to use the alchemist plugin, how to save the plugin's recordings to file (ie: get it to behave like ScriptingListener and generate ScriptingListenerJS.log)

It'd be cool to keep users from needing to learn another GUI and expand on Photoshop, but at some point I'd best explore another route (.Net + lib-vips/net-vips) you know?

Essentially, my question boils down to: Can we do things like this... Select subject > crop > posterize > gaussian blur > find edges > image resize And if that is possible, is it at least somewhat explained in the book?

Wdyt? 🙂

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded