Sorry, I set it up as a function with the simple name of 'f'. To use add a line at the bottom to call the function... f(); Then follow Paul's instructions above. Make sure you use a plain text editor if you use a different editor to pasted and save. You could also edit the layer name if you like. No quotes in the layer's name in the panel. ... View more

That is a good idea Christoph, Below is a slightly different approach that use the same idea. Make a solid fill adjustment layer and name it 'script color picker'. It does not matter what color you choose. Turn the layer off. Now with the script below attached to a keyboard shortcut every time the script is run it remembers the current active layer, selects the fill layer, turns it on and pops up the Adobe color picker. It then sets the selected color to the foreground, turns off the layer and returns to the layer that was active. Note that this is just a concept script. There is no error checking and it only been tested with CS4 WinXP. It should work with other vesions. function f(){ // make a reference to activeLayer var currLayerName = app.activeDocument.activeLayer.name; var currLayer = app.activeDocument.layers.getByName(currLayerName); // select the solid fill layer app.activeDocument.activeLayer = app.activeDocument.layers.getByName('script color picker'); // make visible app.activeDocument.activeLayer.visible = true; // set starting color var startCOlor = [ 127,127,127 ]; // call the color picker var desc = new ActionDescriptor(); var ref = new ActionReference(); ref.putEnumerated( stringIDToTypeID( "contentLayer" ), charIDToTypeID( "Ordn" ), charIDToTypeID( "Trgt" ) ); desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID( "null" ), ref ); var modeDesc = new ActionDescriptor(); var colorDesc = new ActionDescriptor(); colorDesc.putDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Rd  " ), startCOlor[ 0 ] ); colorDesc.putDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Grn " ), startCOlor[ 1 ] ); colorDesc.putDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Bl  " ), startCOlor[ 2 ] ); modeDesc.putObject( charIDToTypeID( "Clr " ), charIDToTypeID( "RGBC" ), colorDesc ); desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID( "T   " ), stringIDToTypeID( "solidColorLayer" ), modeDesc ); executeAction( charIDToTypeID( "setd" ), desc, DialogModes.ALL ) // get user's color and set to forground color var ref = new ActionReference(); ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); var desc = executeActionGet(ref) var adjList = desc.getList(stringIDToTypeID('adjustment')); var adjDesc = adjList.getObjectValue(0); var colorDesc = adjDesc.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID('color')); var color = new SolidColor(); color.rgb.red = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Rd  ')); color.rgb.green = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Grn ')); color.rgb.blue = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Bl  ')); app.foregroundColor = color; // restore app.activeDocument.activeLayer.visible = false; app.activeDocument.activeLayer = currLayer; } edit: sorry for the typos - my mind runs faster than my fingers ... View more

Here is an example of the color picker Paul suggested. It doesn't use the Photoshop color picker. It uses the OS version. var result = $.colorPicker( -1 ).toString(16); if( result != -1 ){     var pad = '00000';     var fillColour = new SolidColor;     fillColour.rgb.hexValue = result.length < 6 ? pad.substring( 0, 6 - result.length ) + result : result;     app.foregroundColor= fillColour; } ... View more

Even with CS4 I think you would only be able to step the angle by a set amount. There are keyboard shortcuts in CS4 to change size and hardness on the fly. I have never seen anyone come up with a way to have a popup color picker via scripting. ... View more

The info on the page at that link is out of date ( CS ). I stop using it as a reference long ago. I still think Xtools is a better reference. At least Xbytor updates when a version of Photoshop adds to the ID list. ... View more

I was the other member and I was mistaken. The script works without errors for me. It creates, saves, then closes so you have to look in the folder where the original file came from to see the results. ... View more

Christoph, I apologize. Your are right. I tested this using ESTK and forgot that I had turned on break for guraded to debug an event script I was working on. Mike ... View more

Nice script. I think that if the file only has one layer and it is a background layer the load transparency section fails. Maybe you could put that in an if statement. It does look like the sample image has transparency. ... View more

Here is an open event script that checks for opened as camera raw and creates a new curve adjuxtment layer if it was. // open as cameraRaw event handler // checks to see if the document was opened as cameraRaw // and if so makes a curve adjustment layer function _makeCurveAdjustmentLayer(){//works with any mode    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();    var ref = new ActionReference();      ref.putClass( charIDToTypeID( "AdjL" ) );    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID( "null" ), ref );    var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();      desc1.putClass( charIDToTypeID( "Type" ), charIDToTypeID("Crvs" ) );    desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID( "Usng" ), charIDToTypeID( "AdjL" ), desc1 );    executeAction( charIDToTypeID( "Mk  " ), desc, DialogModes.NO ); } try {   if (arguments.length >= 2) {     var desc = arguments[0];      if( desc.hasKey( charIDToTypeID( "As  " ))){          if( typeIDToStringID( desc.getObjectType(charIDToTypeID( "As  " ))) == 'Adobe Camera Raw' ){             _makeCurveAdjustmentLayer();         }     } } } catch (e) {   alert( "Error: " + e + ":" + e.line ); } ... View more

It's great that you are back. It does return an array, sorry for the shorthand [] and lack of comments. I also thought I would let you name the function. Here are two examples using that function. var p = ftn1(); alert('The selected point is at x'+k[0]+', y'+k[1]+' pixels'); var p = k[0]; var p = k[1]; // make a 1x1 pixel selection at that point activeDocument.selection.select([[x,y],[x+1,y],[x+1,y+1],[x,y+1]]); ... View more

The only advantage I can see to using the text engine data as I did would be if you also wanted to know what font is used for the text. As far as I can tell that is only in the engine data. ... View more

See my answer to the post you made at PS-Scripts. It has a function to use color range. ... View more

If I understand what you are asking wouldn't be better to either set the colorspace in ACR to match your default or edit your color setting in Photoshop to convert and don't ask? Also set up a script that will either create a curve adjustment layer or open the curve dialog, but it will do so with every image you open even those not opened through ACR. Are you sure you want to do that? ... View more

Yes, I think Photoshop might choke if you tried to put more than 65536 chars in a text layer. ... View more

Thanks X, That explains why I am getting some strange results with some text in my sample. Paul, It's my turn to say 'Good job'. If I may make a suggestion, your code will not return all the text if the text is longer than 255 chars. You may want to check whats at pos +17 to see if you need to handle longer text strings. These changes should take care of the text length var test = parseInt(pos )+17; var textLength = (dat.charCodeAt(parseInt(test ))<<8)+dat.charCodeAt(parseInt(test)+1); var start = test + 3; ... View more

The ignorance may be mine. Try var re = /Text\s\(\xFE\xFF\x00(.+)/g; What that 'says' is look for  Text(one whitespace)(the ascii code in hex for the next 3 chars)then remember/store the rest of the line. I first looked at a sample PSD using a hexeditor to see if I could find a pattern to search. As you pointed out in the frist post, text appears a lot of times and I didn't have any luck finding the pattern that way. So next I opened the sample with a text editor and found this:(nb I have replace the x00 chars with '00' here so the pattern can be seen) <<      /EngineDict      <<           /Editor           <<                /Text (þÿ00M00y00T00e00x00t00 I think the text is stored in what is called a zero pad text. Which is why if a match is found it loops through the string to remove the x00 chars. I would have thought it would work with the RegExp I posted. But I changed to re to match as decribed above incase the space or þÿ is the problem. The only other thing I can think of is I tested this on a PC. If you are on a Mac you might want to look at a pad with a texteditor to see if the þÿ part looks the same. I know that the difference in the way the byte order is read can be a problem. I wouldn' t think so here but... Also as I noted it runs slow on my maching after the first run. The first run is quick. Every run after that is much slower. It may be just my system but it this might be very slow scanning a folder in a loop. Mike ... View more

As I understand it you should put a ; at the end of every statement but it's not required. Most of the time it seems the only difference is it makes debugging eaiser. Without the ; the wrong line may be reported as the source of the error. As for the forum's point system. I don't know how to change it. If you can, give the correct answer to Mark. I just expaned on his post. Mike ... View more

If you have CS4 you can do something like this to make sure the activeLayer does not have a vector mask try{     activeDocument.activeLayer.vectorMaskDensity; }catch(e){     activeDocument.pathItems.removeAll(); } ... View more

It looks like someone edited my function, which is ok with me. But executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("placedLayerReplaceContents", desc, DialogModes.NO)); slould be executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("placedLayerReplaceContents"), desc, DialogModes.NO)); ... View more

I didn't test it and knew it wasn't done. It took a long time even with the small psd I looked at to see the file structure so I gave it up as a wrong approach. What size file did you test and do you think the way would be fast enough to be useable? Maybe I was wrong. Also I would bet from the RegExp I used that if the text has a linebreak, this will only get the first line. ... View more

My guess that opening the files in Photoshop would be faster than string searches on the file stream using javascript. But if you want to try this should get you close. var f = new File('/c/temp/text_small.psd'); var re = /Text \(þÿ\x00(.+)/g; var textStrings = new Array(); f.open('r'); var str = f.read(); f.close(); var m = re.exec( str ); while (m != null) {      zpt = m[1];      var text = new String();      for(var p = 0; p < zpt.length; p++ ){           if( m[1].charAt(p).length == 1 ) text+=m[1].charAt(p);      }      textStrings.push(text);      m = re.exec( str ); } ... View more

Hi Larry, After your other post I tried again to come up with a way for the user to pick a point while the script is running. I stll don't think it can be done with just a click but I have come up with a way to get a user defined point while the script is running. It's not pretty but it was the best I could come up with. Have your script alert before hand that it will bring up a transform and they need to press any arrow key once then move the crosshair that in normally in the middle to the point they want. They have to nudge the layer, just setting the crosshair does not return the needed transform descriptor. And they must move the crosshair or its not in the descriptor. The function below makes a selection, brings up the transform in dialogmode.all, after the user confrims the trans it undoes the move and deselects and returns an x,y array where user moved the point. function ftn1() {      app.activeDocument.selection.selectAll();     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();         var ref = new ActionReference();         ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );     desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );      try{           var desc = executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Trnf'), desc, DialogModes.ALL );           executeAction( charIDToTypeID('undo'), undefined, DialogModes.NO );           app.activeDocument.selection.deselect();           var point = desc.getObjectValue(charIDToTypeID( "Pstn" ));           var x = point.getUnitDoubleValue(charIDToTypeID( "Hrzn" ));           var y = point.getUnitDoubleValue(charIDToTypeID( "Vrtc" ));           return [x,y];      }catch(e){} } Note that this is a CS4 version and the ruler must be set to pixels as this doesn't check the unit value. You may need to change  getUnitDoubleValue to getDouble with older versions. Or let me know and I can change it to return a UnitValue instead of double. Mike ... View more

Use .getFiles(/\.(jpg|cr2)$/i); to get jpg or cr2 and ignore case. edit: That may not work with the script above. I thought that you wanted to resize for email/web. Why include raw files in the email folder? ... View more

As I recall, there is not a way to read the table. If there where you would not need the code above, you could deal with the table without reading and writing table files. You might be able to come up with a script that saves the doc to a temp file, extracts the lookup table using a command line app like ImageMagic, then convert that data into something that works with Xbytor's code if you need to get the table on the fly. If not save the table in the GUI and use it with X's code. ... View more

Add this before the saveas line im.resizeImage(undefined,undefined,72,ResampleMethod.NONE); ... View more

I don't think there is a short, easy way to copy a layer into a different doc at a fixed location. You have to do one of the following. 1. What you are doing now. Copy, change docs, paste, find the bounds and translate. 2. Get the bounds of the layer to copy and determine height and width, switch docs and make a selection in pixels  [X, Y,X+ width,Y+height], then paste. You do not need to translate. With either of those methods you loose any layer properties like blend mode, masks, etc 3. Use the duplicate method to dupe the layer and all it's features to the new doc. It should be at the top of the layer stack and in the top right corner. Move the layer where you want it in the layer stack and translate to the desired X,Y ... View more

After a quick look at several ttf files I don't think this can be done with a string search. And unless you need to do this a lot, I don't think it would be worth the effort to write a ttf file parser. The files I looked at didn't follow the table in the first link posted. But I have an answer that might be helpful. The windows font folder is special type of folder. You can't click on a font to add it to the dialog like normal folders. You have to type the first few letters of the font you want and choose it from the dropdown. If the user does that the file is returned by File.openDialog(). ... View more

Here are the functions. You may need to localize the error string in the second function. As long as the images are the same size don't need to open the new image first. If not you would need to get the layer bounds, open the new image and resize to those bounds, and then save or saveAS the file. You wouldn't have to copy, switch docs, paste, and translate. function makeSmartObject(){ //converts the current activeDocument.activeLayer to smart object //Note works on layer or layerSet or background //also works if more than one layer selected executeAction( stringIDToTypeID( "newPlacedLayer" ), undefined, DialogModes.NO ); } function replaceLayer(fileRef){ //useage replaceLayr('/c/temp/new.jpg'); //replaces the current activeDocument.activeLayer   try {          var desc = new ActionDescriptor();          desc.putPath( charIDToTypeID( "null" ), new File( fileRef ) );           executeAction( stringIDToTypeID( "placedLayerReplaceContents" ), desc, DialogModes.NO );       } catch (e) {   if (!e.toString().match(/Replace Contents.+is not currently available/)) {       throw e;       };   }; } ... View more