Generating a weekly match-up schedule with Scripting

[jayskizm]

Hey everyone,

I work for a company that puts on gaming tournaments and sometimes we'll need to generate a schedule that outlines the match-ups for the week (see below).

The current process for this is creating groups that include the team logo and their name. Whenever I want to replace a logo, I'll have to drag and drop it into the group layer and things can get messy a little bit and I just want to find a way to automate this process better.

I'm interested in creating an extension panel that will allow me to change out team names + their images quickly, something similar to what's seen here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/73457347/Photoshop-Extension-Programming

Would appreciate any help or just a general direction on how to get started. Thanks all!

[JJMack]

Here is what  JT Cattelan  the developer of the extension wrote about development.

"It started out as more of a side project that I would put a few hours into here and there. Someone who is more adept at programming could do it way quicker than me. I'd say I put about a full week's work into both of them. I'd hit a wall and be stuck for a few days and then have a light bulb moment. But it's been way worth it just for being able to offload tasks to people who don't have photoshop knowledge. The hardest part is there isn't too much documentation on writing extensions for Adobe's newer CEP platform. So it was a lot of trial and error, and asking around on scripting forums."

There is little information about developing CEP extension.  Adobe has and example extension you can download and learn from. There is as far as I know one book written about development of CEP extension.   I only hack at Photoshop scripting and would not even know where to start developing an extension for Photoshop. How much experience do you have with Scripting Photoshop.  IMO if you don't know Photoshop scripting well you should hire a programmer to develop the Photoshop extension you want. You not going to learn how to script Photoshop in a short time your gaming schedule may bo over.

Adobe CEP Getting Started guides