Adobe photoshop cs 2.0 User Guide

 Scripting Photoshop CS2     57

The following examples use the 

stroke (Stroke/stroke())

 command/method of the 

Selection

 

object to stroke the boundaries around the current selection and set the stroke color and width.

The transparency parameter cannot be used for background layers.

stroke selection of current document using color ¬

{class:CMYK color,cyan:20, magenta:50, yellow:30, black:0}¬
width 5 location inside blend mode vivid light opacity 75 ¬
without preserving transparency

selRef.Stroke strokeColor, 5, 1, 15, 75, False

app.activeDocument.selection.stroke (strokeColor, 2,

StrokeLocation.OUTSIDE, ColorBlendMode.VIVIDLIGHT, 75, 

false)

You can use the i

nvert/Invert/invert()

 command/method of the Selection object to a selection so you 

can work on the rest of the document, layer or channel while protecting the selection. 

AS

invert selection of current document

VBS

selRef.Invert

JS

selRef.invert()

You can change the size of a selected area using the expand, contract, and feather commands. 

The values are passed in the ruler units stored in Photoshop CS2 preferences and can be changed by your 
scripts. If your ruler units are set to pixels, then the following examples will expand, contract and feather by 
five pixels. See section 

 for examples of how to 

change ruler units.

expand selection of current document by pixels 5
contract selection of current document by pixels 5
feather selection of current document by pixels 5

Dim appRef 
Set appRef = CreateObject("Photoshop.Application")

Dim selRef 
Set selRef = appRef.ActiveDocument.Selection

selRef.Expand 5