I am just starting to study the sdk, but all the examples I have seen are reading psd documents like this (example in C#):
var app = new Photoshop.Application();
var documents = app.Documents;
I don't need to create the Application object, in fact I don't want to call it because it returns the currently running instance of Photoshop and my application has to run stand-alone, independently from Photoshop.
Is there a possibility to read the document directly, something similar to this?:
var document = Photoshop.Document.Open(path);
I imagine that this can be done the hard way if I look at the psd format specification, but is there a way to do it with the sdk?
A bit of context:
I would like to create a stand-alone application that uses the functionality from the sdk to change a psd file, but this application should be completely separate from the currently running instance of photoshop.
This application is intended to be running in the background, while the artist is working on something else, and preferably it should not affect him in any way.