Adobe photoshop cs 2.0 User Guide

 Scripting Photoshop CS2     72

your application directory. See 

 for information on the 

Presets/Scripts

 folder. 

This section demonstrates how to use the information contained in the previous sections of this chapter to 
create scripts that do the following:

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Configure document preferences.

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Apply color to text items. In this section, you will also learn how to do the following:

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Create a reference to an existing document.

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Create a layer object and make the layer a text layer. 

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Rasterize text so that wrap and blur processing can be applied to words. In these sections you will also 
learn how to do the following:

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Select and work with a specific area of a layer by creating a selection object.

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Apply wave and motion blur filters to selected text. 

When you finish the lesson in each of the following sections, save the script you have created in the 
lesson. Each lesson builds upon the script created in the previous lesson. 

The sample scripts in this section activate a Photoshop CS2 Application object and then save the default 
configuration settings into variables so that they can be restored later when the script completes. These 
are the default configurations you most probably set up in the Preferences dialog when you initially 
installed and configured Photoshop CS2. 

To view or set the Preferences on Mac OS, choose Photoshop >Preferences> Units & Rulers; in 
Windows choose Edit >Preferences> Units & Rulers.

Next, the scripts set the following preferences to the following values:

 

Layer Comps to Files.jsx

Saves layer comps as files.

Layer Comps to PDF.jsx

Saves layer comps as a PDF presentation.

Layer Comps to WPG.jsx

Saves layer comps as a Web photo gallery.

Export Layers to Files.jsx

Exports each document in the document to a separate file.

Script Events Manager.jsx

Enables and disables notifier objects.

Image Processor.jsx

Processes camera raw images in various file formats.

rulers

inches

Uses inches as the unit of measurement for graphics