I've been working on my next project, a video-course on Photoshop JS Native Applications development. The Demo app is 98% done, I have to start recording the screencasts now; let's see that what this is all about.

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In case you missed it, Flextight scanners have vanished from the Hasselblad website around May 2019 and macOS Catalina doesn't run FlexColor anymore. No software updates are planned, plus I've run into problems dealing with 3F files in Photoshop 2020. Heavens!

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If you're into technical writing, read along. I've used Leanpub's services for two books of mine out of three, and I am still 100% sure that I couldn't make a better choice. But when you're more experienced, there might be reasons to look for alternatives: I'll tell you mine, how I've sorted my doubts out, and what I've eventually chosen.

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With macOS 10.15 Catalina, native installers such as .pkg or .dmg require to be 'notarized' with Apple. It's less scaring than it sounds, let's see how please the Gatekeeper.

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I have run a small batch of prints for my Professional PS Scripting course: I'm going to describe the process of turning a Leanpub generated eBook into a Lulu.com printed book.

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Bye-bye Wordpress.

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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.

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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!

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

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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!

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

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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).

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

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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.

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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.

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