Hi William -- thanks for the Adobe scripting tutorial series, it has been very helpful. Do you know how to get user input from key presses in an Adobe app? A tutorial on that could be quite useful. I'm trying to batch process a folder of images in Photoshop using a script. I want to watermark the images with a logo in either the bottom left or bottom right corner, depending on which will look better for the particular image -- a subjective decision that the user will need to make. What I'd like the script to do is to open an image and then pause, waiting for the user to press either the left or right keyboard key to determine on which side to place the watermark. Once the key is pressed, the script will watermark the image accordingly, do any other processing, save and close it, and then repeat for all the other images in the folder. Right now I've got all the pieces I need for this to work except for the pause and wait for keypress piece. Any help you could provide on this topic would be greatly appreciated!
I would make a "palette" dialog that stays open while the script runs. Have on it a button for left, and a button for right. The button clicked determines where the watermark is positioned. Or you can add keyboard event listeners. I don't have tutorials for either topic yet but I'll add them to my list. Both are covered in the Photoshop API for which there is a link in the description. In the meantime search the web for "Photoshop JavaScript palette". Especially look in the Adobe user forum. Free to join: community.adobe.com/
Now that I think of it, my progress bar tutorial does show how to create a modeless "palette" window that stays open. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JXPeLi6uPv4.html
@@wc7 Thanks for the response! I'll check out that palette dialog option, that sounds like it should work well. The keyboard event listeners would still be a cool tutorial topic that could come in handy.
Windows Settings, Personalization, Colors, Accent color. It can be any color you like. Personally I like the blue color, which in the grid of choices is simply "Blue" if you hover over it. Second row down, second from the right (on my monitor anyway). Then below the grid of colors, enable the option "show accent color on the title bars and windows borders". The accent color appears on most dialog windows, but not all. App windows for example it doesn't appear.
this isn't related to the script in the video. I saw that with photoshop jsx scripts you can program them to expire after a certain date . but can program it to sense tampering trying to figure that out // Set the expiration date const expirationDate = new Date('2024-12-31'); // Set your desired expiration date // Function to check if the script is expired function checkExpiration() { const currentDate = new Date(); if (currentDate > expirationDate) { console.error("This script has expired and will no longer function."); // Disable functionality or alter the script behavior return false; // Indicate that the script is expired } return true; // Indicate that the script is still active } // Usage example if (checkExpiration()) { // Your script's functionality here console.log("Script is active."); } else { // Optional: code to execute after expiration }
@@wc7 this isn't related to the script in the video. I saw that with photoshop jsx scripts you can program them to expire after a certain date . but can program it to sense tampering trying to figure that out // Set the expiration date const expirationDate = new Date('2024-12-31'); // Set your desired expiration date // Function to check if the script is expired function checkExpiration() { const currentDate = new Date(); if (currentDate > expirationDate) { console.error("This script has expired and will no longer function."); // Disable functionality or alter the script behavior return false; // Indicate that the script is expired } return true; // Indicate that the script is still active } // Usage example if (checkExpiration()) { // Your script's functionality here console.log("Script is active."); } else { // Optional: code to execute after expiration } Reply
@@hustleheartdesignco2319 Adobe scripts are JavaScript ES3. Anything you can do with that language can be done in script. For example, the particular scheme to expire a script. It's not anything that Photoshop provides. It is simply JS code to make a script stop working when a certain date is reached. To prevent users from tricking the script, it takes code more clever that includes storing dates somewhere on the user's storage drive. How I do it is proprietary. If I showed how, it only helps others defeat my trial expiration scheme. Sorry, this one you have to get creative and be unique which also helps. Use your imagination.
