Just a bit of intermezzo, I’ve built a photoshop script that’ll detect the position of an object and store it in JSON.
How to do it
1. First, arrange your objects like so;
Notice the naming convention.
The object you want to retrieve its position from, is nested inside a folder which has its name appended with “@”, this concept was taken from cutandslice.
2. Run the script.
and it’ll churn a JSON like below;
{ "stage": { "item1": { "x": 277, "y": 618, "width": 287, "height": 646 } } }
So if your job involves endless toiling with Photoshop, then script automation will extremely optimize your flow work and you can use the ubiquitous Javascript! I swear you can’t do any coding without bumping with Javascript now a days.
Smart example is of course cutandslice, it has become an inseparable tools for me.
If you’d like to make it your own, start from Michael Chaize’s tutorial below;
Tested on
– Adobe Photoshop CS6
– Mac OSX 10.8.4
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