How does Automation plug-ins appear under Help menu?
Hi, My Automation plug-ins appear under Automate menu, and it works. There too menu item and submenu.Look up and Select my plug-in is boring.How does it appear under Help menu?
View ArticleProgramming filters with Xcode + Interface Builder - Examples?
Hi,I've figured out how to make a working PC Photoshop plugin and am now figuring out the Mac side. What is a reasonable method for creating/altering the GUI... e.g. altering the Dissolve filter...
View ArticlePhotoshop CS3 vs CS2 32 bit floating point tiff loading
Hi,The application I'm developing exports 3 channel 32 bit floating point tiff's. The exported files could have been loaded into PS CS2, but PS CS3 can't load them anymore, all I get is a message box...
View Articlehow to use Selection.select()
Today I wanted a minor script to create a selection. Should have gone easily via: app.activeDocument.selection.select(...) The Photoshop CS4 JavaScript Ref.pdf says the "select" method of the Selection...
View ArticlePhotoshop file formats pdf
Hi, I'm writing a drawing application that supports layers, and would like to be able to write to a layered .tif file that photoshop can understand, and translate into layers. In the tiff 6.0...
View ArticlePhotoshop on server?
Is it possible to run Photoshop on a server to run online tasks?I'm looking to user it for one purpose.I want to run and action thru photoshop and have it return a result in a browser.Basically I...
View ArticleMaking Xcode 4 Projects for Mac OS
Hi ,SDK doc "Making Xcode Projects for Mac OS" shows how to create project with pretty old Xcode Version 3.1.2.Can anyone tell me how to create basic plugin project using xcode 4 with cocoa support , I...
View ArticlePlugin Type
Hello, in the FAQs of the Photoshop API's documentation it is said, that there are seven types of plugins, Import, Export, File Format, Filter, Selection, Color Picker, and Automation.Which category...
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Will Adobe ever add support for JPEG-XR?
There's been quite a bit of work done on the Flash Player to display and export JPEG-XR files. During the Flash CS6 prerelease, the Flash team talked about additional JPEG-XR support for things like...
View ArticleGet Layer Groups from C++ plugin
Hi! I'm trying to get next things: 1) layers hierarchy 2) layers bounds rect 3) save every layer to PNG file -- Currently I can only get list of layers: auto&layerInfo =...
View ArticleNon modal Dialogs in photoshop
Hello, Photoshop doesnot support non-modal dialogs designed using ADM.Is there any other way to have non-modal dialogs or panels in photoshop, similar to the Layers (Window->Layers) panel....
View ArticleDo the plugins with file type .8bf work in Photoshop CS5 under Mac OS (any...
I saw an article saying so:http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/8bf but when I placed one in my plugins folder and restarted PS, it does not show up.
View Articlechange depth from 32bit to 8bit
Hey. is there asimple wayto change depth of image. I'm makking TMO filter plugin, and operate on 32bit image, laast operation i need to convert to 8 bit. Is there any function fot that? thanks.
View ArticlePhotoshop internal RGB colorspace question
Hi, 1) What kind of of RGB colorspace Photoshop uses internally sRGB, adobeRGB etc.?Basically in/from what colorspace should i convert data in m,y format plug-in on rear/write?Is it the same colorspase...
View ArticleMac SDK example plugins - none compile (Missing Base SDK)
Hi All I'm a Windows developer, and it's been a long time since I've developed our plugin for the Mac (10 years ago using powerpc, codewarrior etc), so my Mac skills are rusty. I thought I'd start with...
View ArticleAre 32-bit Cocoa plug-ins supported?
Hello, [Adobe Photoshop 12.0.1, CS5 SDK, OS X 10.6.4, Xcode 3.2.4] I'm converting my plug-in to use Cocoa but I'm experiencing crashes after my plug-in is closed (either by cancelling or when the...
View ArticleProblem with getting font name in PS CS5/CS6 plugin
Hello, When I call GetString method such as: error = sPSActionDescriptor->GetString(descFont, keyFontName, fontName, stringLength);on some .psd file which contains text layer(s), I get error -1715....
View ArticleHow can I temporarily disable hotkeys in photoshop?
Hi all, I have a plugin in C++ that starts an external process. This process has UI and his event loop. That event loop runs in external code so that I cant use the regular dialogproc to capture...
View ArticleIs there a way to retrieve timeline data?
I can't find anything that indicates it is possible to retrieve the timeline data. Looking at output from Getter & Listener, there appear to be commands for timeline manipulation, but nothing to...
View ArticleHow can I see the alpha channel in the channels palette?
Hello, mi format plugin loads a rgba image. I see it with transparency, that's ok, but when I go to the channels tab I only see 4 items (RGB, Red, Green and Blue). How can I see the alpha channel of my...
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