{"id":11100,"date":"2006-04-28T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/04\/insanely-obscure-scripting-feature-o-the-day.html"},"modified":"2006-04-28T14:15:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T14:15:18","slug":"insanely_obscure_scripting_feature_o_the_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/insanely_obscure_scripting_feature_o_the_d\/","title":{"rendered":"Insanely obscure scripting feature o&#039; the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I considered calling this post &#8220;Most Obscure. Feature. Ever,&#8221; but then I remembered the tweaky labyrinths woven as Russell Brown bribed various engineers for little improvements.  In any case, knowing this tip would qualify anyone as Photoshop Illuminati: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When accessing File-&gt;Scripts in Photoshop, first hold down the Opt\/Alt key.  Instead of running the selected script, Photoshop will open it in the <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2005\/04\/20\/what\u2019s-new-in-photoshop-cs2-scripting\/\" \/>ExtendScript Toolkit<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/detail.jsp?ftpID=3206\">Mac<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/detail.jsp?ftpID=3205\">Win<\/a>)&#8211;itself quite a well-kept secret.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Hey, I said it was obscure, but it could be a useful way to inspect anything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tranberry.com\/photoshop\/photoshop_scripting\/tips\/layerstoPNG.html\">layers to PNG<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtightinteractive.com\/projects\/postcardviewer\/auto_photoshop_instruct.html\">Flash gallery creation<\/a>.  Thanks to Tom Ruark, Photoshop engineer &amp; Russell&#8217;s collaborator on the <a href=\"http:\/\/av.adobe.com\/russellbrown\/ImageProcessorSM.mov\">Image Processor<\/a> script, for pointing this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I considered calling this post &#8220;Most Obscure. Feature. Ever,&#8221; but then I remembered the tweaky labyrinths woven as Russell Brown bribed various engineers for little improvements. In any case, knowing this tip would qualify anyone as Photoshop Illuminati: When accessing File-&gt;Scripts in Photoshop, first hold down the Opt\/Alt key. Instead of running the selected script, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}