Thoughts on Adobe Generator? - http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/ ... op-cc.html ... op-cc.html
Adobe Generator, which allows new workflows, especially for web designers, screen designers, and anyone who needs to extract image assets out of a Photoshop document.
Almost replaces my export scripts for retina assets. Also nice that Adobe released the code and opened it up for plugins.
Generator is based on the popular Node.js platform and plug-ins can be written in JavaScript. Generator plug-ins give you deep access to your Photoshop documents, including bitmap representations, layer bounds, and much more. Get started with the Generator source code on GitHub.
Adobe Introduces Generator
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Adobe Introduces Generator
Hi,
besides the web assets generation (which personally I won't use very much - I just don't need them) the fact NodeJS has been implanted in the belly of Photoshop appears to be *quite a good news* to my eyes.
Tom Krcha has written a first tutorial called "Script your first Adobe Generator plugin", where he describes Generator as the third option for Photoshop scripting (alongside with ExtendScript and Photoshop Server via TCP/IP calls).
It looks like a promising technology that can be used in many different ways - being automation just one of them, I'm still interested in grabbing bitmap data to be elaborated by JS graphics libraries and returned back to PS (that is to say JS image processing plugins).
But I'm afraid is too early to know what are the actual limits of it, the performance, etc. Yet in the heat of the moment, I'd say Generator it's *quite a good news*...
Davide Barranca
http://www.davidebarranca.com
besides the web assets generation (which personally I won't use very much - I just don't need them) the fact NodeJS has been implanted in the belly of Photoshop appears to be *quite a good news* to my eyes.
Tom Krcha has written a first tutorial called "Script your first Adobe Generator plugin", where he describes Generator as the third option for Photoshop scripting (alongside with ExtendScript and Photoshop Server via TCP/IP calls).
It looks like a promising technology that can be used in many different ways - being automation just one of them, I'm still interested in grabbing bitmap data to be elaborated by JS graphics libraries and returned back to PS (that is to say JS image processing plugins).
But I'm afraid is too early to know what are the actual limits of it, the performance, etc. Yet in the heat of the moment, I'd say Generator it's *quite a good news*...
Davide Barranca
http://www.davidebarranca.com