Davide Barranca — Photoshop, etc.

5 Mar, 2019
Personal
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Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll on Netlify

Bye-bye Wordpress.

21 Feb, 2019
CEP
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Adobe Extension Manager Error Codes

Here is a comprehensive list of all Adobe Extension Manager (ExManCmd) error codes.

13 Feb, 2019
Scripting
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Professional Photoshop Scripting is published!

After 10 months since the launch of the Early Access Program, I am incredibly happy to announce that my book is now complete!

16 Dec, 2018
CEP
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Spectrum CSS VueJS Component: DropDown

In a previous post I have introduced the recently open-sourced Spectrum CSS. Here, I'll be demonstrating how to use them to build a simple VueJS DropDown component

12 Dec, 2018
Scripting
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ESTK to be replaced by a Visual Studio Code plug-in

Please do yourself a favour and read this Medium post by Lead Technical Evangelist Ash Ryan Arnwine about the future of the ExtendScript ToolKit.

18 Nov, 2018
CEP Scripting
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Adobe Spectrum CSS open-sourced!

In case you've missed the news, Adobe has open-sourced the Spectrum CSS: the stylesheets they're using for Photoshop's own CEP Panels

11 Jun, 2018
Scripting
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Professional Photoshop Scripting EAP Update

I've added 60 pages to accommodate an amazing new chapter on Adobe Generator! The book is now 388 pages strong and packed with exclusive content found nowhere else.

8 May, 2018
Coding
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Automated check for corrupted image files with Python and ImageMagick

How do you check if an image file (tiff, psd, psb) is corrupted, other than looking at its thumbnail with Bridge, or opening it on Photoshop? With a small Python script and ImageMagick!

20 Apr, 2018
Scripting
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Professional Photoshop Scripting Course – Early Access Program

I'm glad to announce that I have opened the Early Access Program to my new and very much awaited Professional Photoshop Scripting course!

10 Mar, 2018
Photoshop
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Luminosity Masks: How Does It Really Work?

In this guest post, the Photoshop developer Scott Murdock tackles the apparently familiar topic of Luminosity Masks – with very interesting findings for anybody using them. Enjoy!

23 Jan, 2018
CEP
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A New Course on Adobe CEP Panels: Native Installers and Automation!

After Adobe Photoshop HTML Panels Development, I've now published a new Course, titled "The Ultimate Guide to Native Installers and Automated Build Systems"

22 Oct, 2017
CEP
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HTML Panel Tips #25: CC 2018 Survival Guide

That time of the year has come, and Photoshop CC 2018 is here. Read along to find out Everything You Always Wanted to Know About CEP 8* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).

25 Aug, 2017
Scripting
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Photoshop Scripting Course Update (August 2017)

In October 2016 I've announced to be working on a course about Photoshop Scripting. Is it ready for release?

24 May, 2017
CEP
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Third-party Photoshop Panels: Configurator Reloaded

I'm not used to talking about commercial products I've not personally developed on my blog, but I've decided it might be interesting to cover the work of other developers here, from time to time or when something catches my eye.

29 Apr, 2017
CEP
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HTML Panel Tips #24: Fixing ZXP Timestamping errors

Recently, running the ZXPSignCmd command line utility to sign and timestamp HTML Panels has proved to cause errors – also for users of Adobe Configurator 4, which relies on it behind the scenes to export the (Flash) panel as ZXP. Quick fix as follows.

20 Feb, 2017
Photoshop
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Double USM v2 for Photoshop has been released!

A major reworking of my Sharpening extension for Photoshop has been released.

11 Feb, 2017
CEP
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HTML Panel Tips #23: JavascriptObfuscator API Gulp.js Plugin

Keep your code away from prying eyes with javascriptobfuscator.com

14 Jan, 2017
CEP
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Vue.js – Nonlinear Sliders with Computed Properties

How do you fit a large range (say, 1..500, with floating point precision) into a Slider which has, at best, less than 200 possible, real slots? Nonlinear sliders and VueJS Computed Properties are the answer

20 Oct, 2016
Scripting
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I am authoring a new Course! And it will be on Photoshop Scripting

One year ago I started writing my Photoshop HTML Panels Development course, which I've successfully published in late March 2016. I'm now back at my desk, working on a very similar project, and targeting no less than... Photoshop Scripting.

1 Aug, 2016
CEP
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Vue.js – Binding a Component in a v-for loop to the Parent model

Today's stumbling block is bi-directionally binding of a Component (v-model), to the root data object – being the Components generated in a v-for loop.