Scripts and understanding

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August 25, 2021
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Hey, i've been reading about scripting, but i'm finding it difficult to understand how to get started.

Could someone provide a step by step guide?

xx Pandos

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PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, I've heard good things about Davide Barranca's books, and make sure to check his blog: Courses

see also Adobe Creative Cloud

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

David's book is great. The scripting guides that Adobe provides are confusing and not always accurate.

JJMack

Community Expert

Scripting Photoshop, Part 1 — An Introduction

Scripting Photoshop, Part 2 — A Practical Example

JJMack

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jazz-y

Brainiac

Adobe intro to scripting

Photoshop Scripting Guide

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Pick a project, make it as simple and easy as you can – really, really simple, even if it only changes "one thing", a single command such as inverting an image or running a filter.

Then read documentation and search the web (forums such as this, blogs etc) for real code samples to make a script to do that "one thing".

A script to do "one thing" may take a single line of code, or perhaps many!

Presuming that you are not interested in AppleScript or VB Script, then it is all JavaScript/ExtendScript, however, there are "two types" – standard DOM code, or Action Manager code.

Good luck, the forum is here to help.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

You also need a text editor or IDE for your chosen scripting language.

Although a simple plain text editor is all you need for JS, a "coding" text editor with JS syntax highlighting is better. Better yet is something specific for Adobe script writing.

What OS and version do you use?