C
HAPTER
3: Scripting Photoshop
Working with the Photoshop Object Model
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by five pixels. See section
“Setting Application Preferences” on page 32
for examples of how to change
ruler units.
AS
expand selection of current document by pixels 5
contract selection of current document by pixels 5
feather selection of current document by pixels 5
VBS
Dim selRef
Set selRef = appRef.ActiveDocument.Selection
selRef.Expand 5
selRef.Contract 5
selRef.Feather 5
JS
var selRef = app.activeDocument.selection
selRef.expand( 5 )
selRef.contract( 5 )
selRef.feather( 5 )
Filling a selection
You can fill a selection either with a color or a history state.
To fill with a color:
AS
fill selection of current document with contents ¬
{class:RGB color, red:255, green:0, blue:0} blend mode ¬
vivid light opacity 25 without preserving transparency
VBS
Set fillColor = CreateObject("Photoshop.SolidColor")
fillColor.RGB.Red = 255
fillColor.RGB.Green = 0
fillColor.RGB.Blue = 0
selRef.Fill fillColor, 15, 25, False
JS
var fillColor = new SolidColor()
fillColor.rgb.red = 255
fillColor.rgb.green = 0
fillColor.rgb.blue = 0
app.activeDocument.selection.fill( fillColor, ColorBlendMode.VIVIDLIGHT,
25, false)
To fill the current selection with the tenth item in the history state:
N
OTE
:
See
“Using history state objects” on page 47
for information on
History State
objects.
AS
fill selection of current document with contents history state 10¬
of current document
VBS
selRef.Fill docRef.HistoryStates(10)
JS
selRef.fill(app.activeDocument.historyStates[9])
Loading and storing selections
You can store
Selection
objects in, or load them from,
Channel
objects. To store a selection in a channel,
it should have its
kind
(
Kind
/
kind
) property set to a type that indicates that channel holds a selected area:
selected
area
channel
(
psSelectedAreaAlphaChannel
)/
ChannelType
.
SELECTEDAREA
). The following
