Combining Channels

Qtip920 · Post by **Qtip920** » Tue May 10, 2011 7:40 pm

First I would like to say that you guys rock! I've been slowly building my first script and have found so much useful help by simply searching and reading past posts. Every time I've run into a problem someone else has already asked the question and had been answered. All but this one...

I have two channels I would like to combine into a single channel to create an Alpha. I haven't been able to figure out anyway to get the two channels to add together.

Ideally it would function the same way as if you went threw the calculations feature and used a blending mode of add.

Also ScriptListener doesn't turn out any code from the calculations menu...

Any help would greatly appreciated.

Mike Hale · Post by **Mike Hale** » Tue May 10, 2011 8:15 pm

What version of Photoshop are you using? On my system( WinXP CS5 32 ) scriptlistener does output code from the calculations menu.

Qtip920 · Post by **Qtip920** » Tue May 10, 2011 9:41 pm

I have tried it on Win7 CS4 64 and WinXP CS4 32.

I'll download CS5 and give it a go with a trial license.

Qtip920 · Post by **Qtip920** » Tue May 10, 2011 9:55 pm

I just double and triple checked and tried out scriptlistener again with CS4. It worked this time...

Mike Hale · Post by **Mike Hale** » Tue May 10, 2011 11:51 pm

At least on my system, if ESKT is running with Photoshop as the target app it sometimes interferes with the scriptlistener plug-in. So I now make it a habit to close ESTK before doing something in Photoshop that I want recorded by scriptlistener.