Photoshop Script Chain

Photoshop scripting tool to chain transformations together. The tool is under development, so it only works with a reduced set of tranformations, e.g. crop, rotation, flip, scale, copy paste from same image, blur, motion blur, unsharp. These transformations have been reimplemented as custom MediFor Journaling Tool plugins in order to have a common guideline for the parameters across various software.

Requisites:

• Python 2 or 3
• Photoshop (tested with Photoshop CC Release 2017 1.1)
• Adobe Extendscript Toolkit CC (tested with ExtendScript 4.5.5)

Usage:

We refer to the root directory of the repository as $ROOT. Folder 'test' contains some test files you can use for check the tool out. In particular:

• $ROOT/test/journal_from_JT.json journal file generated with MediFor journaling tool
• $ROOT/test/img_src/* test images to process

Intended use case is the following:

0. Add plugins

Copy folder jt_plugins in your maskgen/plugins. This step is not mandatory if you only want to test the tool with the provided input files.

1. Journal translation

cd $ROOT
python jt_parser.py test/journal_from_JT.json test/parsed_journal_for_PS.json

input: json journal from MediFor journaling tool

output: json with ordered operations chain

2. Image transformation

2.1.

Open photoshop_chain.jsx with Adobe Extendscript Toolkit and set rootDir to $ROOT

2.2

Execute photoshop_chain.jsx (Photoshop should open up automatically)

Output images are saved in $ROOT/test/img_dst

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