Davide Barranca

27 Jan, 2014
Coding Photoshop
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2014 Code Learning Wishlist (and All the Rest)

I've thought that "New Year Resolutions" sounds bad compared to "Wishlist" - doesn't it? Just an excuse to post a bunch of links and inventory topics I'd like to spend time on in 2014.

16 Jan, 2014
Photoshop
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Up to 10 Color Samplers – Photoshop CC (14.2)

Thanks to last Photoshop World Codeathon in Las Vegas, we’ve finally broken the 4 Color Samplers limit in the Info Palette – we’re allowed to scatter up to 10 of them like a machine gun (provided we’ve Photoshop CC updated to the 14.2 dot release, available from Jan 16, 2014 onwards). If you’re in the color correction business, that is a big deal.
[Fireworks popping, people getting naked, etc]

Now, to be fair, this is a pretty old feature request (ignored/postponed…) – something more like a JDI if you will.
But let’s not be the usual mumbling guys for a little bit! Just a little bit 😉

PS
I built an experimental Panel back in 2011, called Power Info Palette – which still shows that there’s always room for improvement! But it’s definitely nice to have native support for 10 samplers in PS now.

8 Dec, 2013
Coding
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Adobe Scripting: collaborative code sharing

An open letter to fellow developers! If you're involved building third party solution for Adobe applications (mainly Scripts/Extensions) and you care about it, please invest 10 minutes of your time, read along and chime in.

18 Nov, 2013
Coding CoffeeScript ExtendScript / Javascript Photoshop
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Photoshop Script Boilerplate Code on GitHub

Back when I started writing Scripts for Photoshop, I'd have loved having Boilerplate code to borrow and learn from. I've put a repository on GitHub with my take on that - still in early, alpha stage but some CoffeeScript stuff is there, ready to be forked: feel free to contribute!

Sublime Text snippet: try/catch wrapping in CoffeeScript

Ever wanted a shortcut-bound, Sublime Text snippet that wraps a selected portion of CoffeeScript code in a properly indented try/catch block? Me too, so I wrote it, here it is!

4 Oct, 2013
Extensions and Scripts Photoshop PS Projects
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‘PS Projects’ for Photoshop CC/CS6

I’m glad to announce my latest script for Photoshop CC / CS6, called PS Projects.

4 Oct, 2013
Scripting
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PS Projects for Photoshop CC / CS6 User Manual

PS Project is a Photoshop CC / CS6 script that implements the idea of Project Files (a lightweight container of links to images on your disk, that you need to open frequently). This User Manual post will go into every detail of it.

BridgeTalk Export as Binary failure

BridgeTalk, the system that enables messaging between applications in the Adobe scripting ecosystem, is prone to failure when evaluating functions via .toSource() - be aware and stringify them in advance!

10 Sep, 2013
Photoshop
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Photoshop CC Color Range Enhancements

Latest Photoshop CC update (version 14.1) has introduced a good deal of new features. One of them is the refined Color Range Selection for Highlights, Midtones and Shadows which now includes Threshold: let's see what is that all about.

ScriptUI tip: decoupling components’ Event handling

In a ScriptUI Window different components are usually registered for Events, and fire their own Handlers. You can build some interconnection, so for instance a Button's 'click' handler triggers a change in a ListBox, which in turn reacts to its own 'onChange' Event. It's quite easy to decouple this interaction, provided that you set up your code properly.

Testing minified JS Libraries in ExtendScript

It's not uncommon, when scripting for Adobe applications, to borrow JS libraries that have been originally written for web development. While the new generation of Adobe HTML Extensions will run on the Chromium Embedded Framework, traditional ExtendScript code is based upon a different, older engine. Besides ECMAScript unsupported features (i.e. ES 5) I've noticed that using minified JS code is a risky business - scripts can break or fail silently. I've set up a proper testing environment to inspect them.

ScriptUI Events: call(), dispatchEvent(), notify()

In your code you may need to run a ScriptUI component's callback, or simulate a user interaction, maybe as a part of a subroutine. There are few ways to do this, with slight differences in the behavior: directly, using call(), notify() or dispatchEvent() - I've set up a commented demo Dialog that shows them all.

25 Jul, 2013
Photoshop @it
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L’App per iPad di TIAB: Sharpening in Photoshop

Teacher in a Box ha pubblicato su App Store la versione per iPad del suo “Videocorso per Photoshop Sharpening: Dettaglio e Nitidezza perfetti nelle fotografie digitali“, registrato da Marco Olivotto. Si tratta di un’App decisamente sostanziosa (678MB per €59.99), i cui contenuti video comprendono sia i fondamentali teorici che gran parte delle tecniche in Photoshop.

CPT – Channel Power Tools for Photoshop CC

I'm happy to report that my dear friend and talented coder Giuliana Abbiati aka Cromaline has just updated to version 1.1.3 her amazing Photoshop extension "CPT - Channel Power Tools", in order to support Photoshop CC.

Adobe Extension Manager CC and Exchange issues

Soon after the public launch of Adobe Creative Cloud apps, some users reported to have run into troubles installing extensions from the Adobe Exchange panel. Here are the most common issues and the suggested workarounds, waiting for official patches.

Sublime Text 2 and 3 ExtendScript Photoshop package (Updated)

If you aren't in love with Adobe's ExtendScript Toolkit, welcome to the club. I've come up with a Sublime Text 2 build system package that lets you run JSX scripts directly from Sublime Text targeting Photoshop, Command+B or CTRL+B and voilà!

1 May, 2013
Coding
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DropBox, Git and SublimeText on the Mac

As a freelance developer I've been using my DropBox account as the projects cloud backup - yet if you're willing to setup it as a private GitHub repository for version control, possibly in conjunction with a SublimeText Git plugin... chances are that you'll spend some time looking for issue workarounds. Why bother, I've gathered them here for you!

Theme Switcher – free extension for Photoshop

Theme Switcher is a free Photoshop panel that gives you a handy way to switch Theme (i.e. the user interface color: Original, Light Gray, Medium Gray and Dark Gray) in a click - no need to bother with Preferences anymore!

3 Apr, 2013
Photoshop
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Dan Margulis’ Modern Photoshop Color Workflow, beta-readers interview

Color Correction Maestro Dan Margulis has just published a new book about his latest research, appropriately called "Modern Photoshop Color Workflow - The Quartertone Quandary, the PPW, and Other Ideas for Speedy Image Enhancement". I've asked to three beta-readers, who happens to be among my best friends and experienced colleagues, few questions about the book's topics. Read along, I've a special guest too!

26 Mar, 2013
Coding Extensions and Scripts Parametric Curves Photoshop
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Parametric Curves free script User Guide

Parametric Curves is a free Photoshop script that lets you plot mathematically defined (Javascript) Curves Adjustment layers. Here I'll show you the script interface and I'll walk you through the creation of some interesting Curves, that will be the building blocks of advanced creative manipulations.