Photoshop Scripting with Python: Tutorial and Examples

[@GregContreras-gh6ny]

We need more of this tutorials

[@smoozz1e19]

So usefull. First good tutorial about work with psd which i saw

[@martechwithme]

Really happy to hear that! Thank your for leaving a comment :)

[@TheXao2]

Hi Yannis, thanks for the great video, but want more helpful information. For example: can I import images, work with layers (combine and arrange) and create strokes. And if possible, how to do it or where can you find documentation?

[@JesFinkJensen]

How would you insert images on specific layers? So for example, how would you replace the Fortnite image on the bottom layer with another image?

[@Sam_A2]

did u find ur answer anywhere? I've been looking for it

[@ZZKJ396]

Nice, an interesting yet obscure subect.

[@martechwithme]

Hey thanks for the comment! Glad to hear you found the subject of this video interesting :). I have many more scripts already written around the same kind of topic so I hope I will be able to record and edit those videos soon enough :)

[@ZZKJ396]

Good man, I subbed after my post, just in case you made some more. Keep up the good work! :)

[@geee7672]

....great eye opener. So in Photoshop we can remove a colour without changing the image quality and look. For instance... A printer / printshop doesn't wanna print Black in an image that's got CMYK build up so we remove the Black channel, distribute its values into CMY without changing the look, feel and quality of the image. Although the image stays as CMYK but with not detal on the black channel. Secondly, Adobe Illustrator Step and repeat. Without using the transform tool and drop-down, how would you automate a step and repeat using Python...

[@steven7639]

I would love to see an equivalent tutorial for Mac OS X. As far as I can tell, most photoshop / psd tutorials require the win32com library and so are not compatible with mac os.

[@dkxeno]

Amazing tutorial, thank you so much 🤝

[@martechwithme]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@timbacodes8021]

Very Nice, any more of these tutorials?

[@zopzop8747]

COLOR MATCH? Cheerz!

[@rajantandan9723]

Why your channel have only one video. Upload more awesome videos like this 👍

[@martechwithme]

Hey Rajan thanks for the kind words :) I know, I wanted to release at least one video a month to try KZbin a bit but my website is taking a lot of time :( I promise you new videos are coming soon though :D

[@lwanso]

Thank you! Do you know the attribute to play an already recorded action in the active document? This would be a game changer for me.

[@smokinfiddler6640]

Yes! This would help me a lot too!

[@lwanso]

@@smokinfiddler6640 In the end I did everything in Javascript. Way easier to control everything in Photoshop. I did not even knew Javascript before then. Check out the ScriptingListener Plugin. It let's you record steps in Photoshop and gives you the code which you can then use and modify.

[@ignasxv]

yooow, you so underrated

[@martechwithme]

Thank you for your kind words! Really appreciate it!

[@anonymousprince5102]

How can we run pr-loaded action using python?

[@davidcotto8955]

this is amazing, i have a few questions though. Are you able to run this python script via Photoshop > File > Scripts > Browse... and selecting a python script?

[@guilhermecunha13]

Hi Yannis, thanks for the great video. How to set the position of each img inside the layer using X and Y parameters. Tks in advance

[@timbacodes8021]

Can you do something around how to use this on a website? in the background? Is that possible?

[@DE-signYourLife]

How to simply make a layermask from the current layer? Is it possible?

[@codestudio497]

hi what about images how can we replace them just like you did with the text layer , thank you

[@mossadahmed8150]

what if I want to place an image in a layer or maybe replace an existing image?!

[@Sam_A2]

What about images? Im trying to add an image over a specific layer, how would that be possible?

[@devenjain7116]

Hey, I made an application that takes user input using tkinter and then adds it to a PSD Template already created and renders it. (The latter part I made by watching your video) I am facing a problem. The User data I take takes input in the form of a paragraph and it has enter (blank lines) inside it that is read as: " " Photoshop does not recognize that character and hence It does not put a blank line there, instead, it puts an unknown character there and it makes the rendered end result look bad and I have to change it manually which defeats the purpose of automating this task...

[@devenjain7116]

Here is the Stack Overflow link which has screenshots of my problem as well, do consider helping! stackoverflow.com/q/67607868/15773448

[@maleki2757]

Hi is it possible to change part of text layer text color or font? with this python photoshop api?

[@pasionporlamecanica.581]

I can´t open it, I´m new in this... any suggestion?

[@MrNeo404]

Can I change a specific picture? Meaning determining the name of the image element and changing it every time with another image from within a specific folder after each new save . + Can I select this new image and change its size as well? I don't want to change the size of the template as a whole . Only the image that I have added I want to resize before the final save process . If it is possible to do that I hope you can tell me the solution Best regards

[@manoharnookala5341]

Hello, is it possible to align the images to create 360 degree view of product in python photoshop to automate the process

[@daymaker_trading]

Thank you so so much!

[@martechwithme]

Yay thank you for leaving a comment! Glad you liked it!

[@HexDefender]

Hi . your tutorial is very nice an amazing Can you create apps for photo editing like photoshop using python

[@sumitbamania8037]

Awesome

[@martechwithme]

Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment :) And glad to hear you found this useful! :)

[@timbacodes8021]

Subscribed!

[@jonoisedev]

thank you for this!

[@martechwithme]

You're so welcome! Thank you for leaving a comment, much appreciated :)

[@robertrobo7611]

good tutorial

[@devenjain7116]

It is giving me an error saying that Photoshop.Application is not found or something... Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "d:\Coding\Python Scripts\Dr Nikhil Prescription App\PS_test.py", line 3, in psApp.Open("Presc_Template.psd") File "", line 2, in Open pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, 'Adobe Photoshop', 'Illegal argument - argument 1 - Expected a reference to an existing File/Folder', None, 0, -2147220262), None) Edit: It was my mistake and now the code works like a charm!

[@martechwithme]

Hello there. The error code you've been given is that it can not find your PSD file because you are not giving it the correct path. As you can see in my video, I give the full path to my psApp.Open("full_path_here.psd"). Not just "file.psd".

[@devenjain7116]

How to save as PDF? Please help me

[@Bronze-td8jq]

Hi, is it possible to do in Mac? Thank you!

[@park_chang_hwi]

In colaboratory, how can I install win32com module? !pip install pypi32com doesn't work

[@martechwithme]

Hi! This tutorial only works on Windows with Photoshop installed. You need to use the Python interpreter that is in your Windows environment. Colaboratory is in the cloud and not directly connected to your local applications. You will be able to follow this tutorial if you install Anaconda in your Windows machine and launch Jupyter Notebook from there for instance.

[@jocemarvosskovacs3384]

Open Photoshop on mac, it's possible?

[@yousefrofa]

how to know all the photoshop functions in python??

[@martechwithme]

Hi Yousef! Unfortunately, there is no documentation available at this moment. All of these discoveries are the fruit of manual testing using the VBS Script documentation that Adobe provides here : www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/photoshop/pdfs/photoshop-cc-vbs-ref.pdf ) But if you're interested in learning more, I try to update my article every time I find about new functions here: martechwithme.com/photoshop-scripting-with-python-on-windows/ Hope it helps :)

[@Nabuuug]

I'm really wondering your method to find all this stuff, how do you translate the Adobe reference with Python here since it's not made for Python?

[@martechwithme]

Honestly? It has been a lot of experimentation. I found a very old article back then that showed how to change the content of the text laxer in Photoshop with Python and from there, I reverse-engineered the VBS documentation with the code sample I found online and managed to get the results depicted in this video. There are still many Photoshop actions and features I need to find how to use with Python though, but it was very rewarding for me to create such a video and to update the original article as i go along as I know that no one else is taking the time to experiment with it and give the findings away for free :)

[@natezhurwi]

I know this is 8 months later but here you can use this to play around with the objects and methods, a lot of very useful information - www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/photoshop/pdfs/photoshop-cc-vbs-ref.pdf Thank you for this video!

[@MohammadHosseiniX]

How can I read layer names and group names from a table automatically?

[@MohammadHosseiniX]

I want automatic create empty layers and empty groups in photoshop from a table. Photoshop version: 2021 Platform: Win 10 *Regards*

[@damdam9055]

Does anyone know how to center and resize an image?

[@shehikes5888]

what should i do if it says "No module named 'win32com'" as in error comment

[@shehikes5888]

even i had installed pip list pywin32. still getting that error

[@martechwithme]

Hey hey, thank you for reaching out! Just to make sure, you are using Windows to follow this tutorial right? At the moment, my instructions only work for Windows and not on Mac OS or Linux :/ If yes, then you can try these two lines in the command line: python -m pip install pypiwin32 python -m pip install pywin32 Also make sure that the modules are actually installed in the environment that you are using! Hope that helps! Let me know how it went!

[@shehikes5888]

@@martechwithme Hey , Thank for helping me!!! It works fine now. please continue your next video and article.

[@smoozz1e19]

What version of Photoshop did you use?

[@martechwithme]

The version used in this tutorial was CC 2014 but I also tried this with CC 2018 and it worked as well!

[@smoozz1e19]

@@martechwithme thx

[@jed_01]

Hello Martech can you Write me a python script that will 1. Stack all the pictures in each sub folder into one Photoshop document file and after sacking each sub folder , it will automatically create a new folder into the sub folder with the name 'psd' and each stack photoshop document file will be save (using Photoshop document file format) into the newly created file sub folder and the stack file will be close automatically after it might have save , and the next sub folder will do the same thing ,that will be done serially from folder one to the last folder, The folder names will take this format 1. New folder (1), New folder (2), till maybe New folder (20), sometimes to New folder (25), remember to use a very simple GUI, the sizes of the Photoshop document file I want to use is 10 x 20 inches, 12 x 24 inches , 8x 20 inches and 12x 20 inches , remember to let the user of this app chose the size before the automation start. Remember to display the message ' finish 'when the automation is done with the last sub folder . Also remember I want the stack images to fit into the size that of my documents .

[@martechwithme]

Hello, you can reach out to me through my consulting form if you're interested in exploring how I can help you with your project: martechwithme.com/consulting/

[@devenjain7116]

THIS DOES NOT WORK WHATSOEVER!! Edit: I am sorry, it was my mistake while writing the code. It worked like a charm for me after I fixed my mistake I had to change the line called: Photoshop.Application to something else and then it worked! Thank You so much @Martech with Me

[@martechwithme]

I just answered your previous comment. It seems to me like the error is on your side. I went through this guide again myself and everything is still working as explained in both Photoshop CC 2014 and 2018. I can't guarantee for the more recent versions but unless you're on a different architecture like M1 from Apple, that should even work for newer versions.

[@devenjain7116]

I was using CC 2019. It worked now, thank you, I have updated my earlier comment! I really appreciate it :)