Davide Barranca

24 Aug, 2024
Career

I'm joining Adobe!

Whoa! I'm joining Adobe as a Sr. Developer Relations Engineer.

25 Nov, 2023
UXP

The 'Professional Photoshop UXP' book is out!

My new book 'Professional Photoshop UXP' has been published! 🎉

4 Sep, 2023
Scripting

Professional Photoshop Scripting (2nd edition) is in the work!

TL;DR I am writing the second edition of my book Professional Photoshop Scripting, UXP Scripts and Plugins. I'm super-happy, it's turning out great.

23 Jan, 2023
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #Special The UXP Landscape Guide

If you've ever wanted a field guide to UXP, this is it.

29 Apr, 2022
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #13 Manifest v5

UXP has updated the Manifest to version 5, let's have a look at what this actually means for your Photoshop plugins.

17 Dec, 2021
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #12 React JS

It's time to approach the most popular JavaScript library: React JS, and my Adobe UXP plugins development with React JS brand new course!

17 Apr, 2021
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #11 Flyout Menus and Entrypoints

In this episode I'll show you how to setup Flyout Menus for UXP plugins. Feel free to watch the video or read the article, they cover the same ground.

13 Mar, 2021
Retouching

Frequency Separation 2021

A detailed overview of a variety of Frequency Separation techniques in Photoshop, updated to the year 2021

1 Mar, 2021
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #10 Modal Dialogs

In this episode we'll learn how to build Modal Dialogs for UXP plugins. Feel free to watch the video or read the article, they cover the same ground.

15 Feb, 2021
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #9 Adobe Spectrum

In this episode I'll talk about UI making and Adobe Spectrum Components. Also a quick and hopefully welcome announcement: from now on I'll publish a written article alongside with the YouTube video, so that you can choose the medium you prefer.

14 Dec, 2020
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #8 BatchPlay (part 3): the Alchemist plugin as an Inspector

In this episode I inspect the various Photoshop app's BatchPlay objects with the Alchemist plugin.

7 Dec, 2020
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #7 BatchPlay (part 2): the Alchemist plugin as a Listener

In this episode I explore BatchPlay code with the Alchemist plugin as a powerful UXP Script Listener.

1 Dec, 2020
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #6 BatchPlay (part 1): the ActionManager roots

In this episode I approach BatchPlay, the super-powerful Photoshop-only scripting technique that can overcome DOM's limits.

23 Nov, 2020
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #5 Sync vs. Async code in Photoshop DOM Scripting

In this episode I'm discussing asynchronous code in the Photoshop DOM and how the new JavaScript Scripting engine differs from ExtendScript.

18 Nov, 2020
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #4 Commands, Panels and the manifest.json

In this episode I'm discussing Panels vs. Commands in Vanilla JS UXP plugins and the way they are expressed in the manifest.json

13 Nov, 2020
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #3 UXP Developer Tool

In this episode I'm covering the Adobe UXP Developer Tool

5 Nov, 2020
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #2 Documentation

In this episode I'm covering the Adobe developers' portal and the UXP documentation

27 Oct, 2020
Development

Adobe UXP: Things you need to know! #1 Rundown on the UXP announcement

I am starting a new series on Adobe UXP development, very much along the lines of the CEP's HTML Panels Tips. But on video.

20 Oct, 2020
Development

UXP launch at Adobe MAX 2020

The Adobe MAX 2020 conference is unfolding right now, free and online, carrying a number of major updates in the Creative Cloud apps lineup – Photoshop 2021 included. These are three of the major keynote's highlights.