Filling A Selection; Loading And Storing Selections - Adobe 65048332 Manual

C 3: Scripting Photoshop
HAPTER
by five pixels. See section
ruler units.
AS
expand selection of current document by pixels 5
contract selection of current document by pixels 5
feather selection of current document by pixels 5
VBS
Dim selRef
Set selRef = appRef.ActiveDocument.Selection
selRef.Expand 5
selRef.Contract 5
selRef.Feather 5
JS
var selRef = app.activeDocument.selection
selRef.expand( 5 )
selRef.contract( 5 )
selRef.feather( 5 )

Filling a selection

You can fill a selection either with a color or a history state.
To fill with a color:
AS
fill selection of current document with contents ¬
{class:RGB color, red:255, green:0, blue:0} blend mode ¬
vivid light opacity 25 without preserving transparency
VBS
Set fillColor = CreateObject("Photoshop.SolidColor")
fillColor.RGB.Red = 255
fillColor.RGB.Green = 0
fillColor.RGB.Blue = 0
selRef.Fill fillColor, 15, 25, False
JS
var fillColor = new SolidColor()
fillColor.rgb.red = 255
fillColor.rgb.green = 0
fillColor.rgb.blue = 0
app.activeDocument.selection.fill( fillColor, ColorBlendMode.VIVIDLIGHT,
25, false)
To fill the current selection with the tenth item in the history state:
N : See
OTE
AS
fill selection of current document with contents history state 10¬
of current document
VBS
selRef.Fill docRef.HistoryStates(10)
JS
selRef.fill(app.activeDocument.historyStates[9])

Loading and storing selections

You can store
it should have its
selected area channel
"Setting Application Preferences" on page 32
"Using history state objects" on page 47
objects in, or load them from,
Selection
( /
kind Kind kind
(
psSelectedAreaAlphaChannel
for information on
Channel
) property set to a type that indicates that channel holds a selected area:
Working with the Photoshop Object Model 45
for examples of how to change
History State
objects. To store a selection in a channel,
)/ .
ChannelType SELECTEDAREA
objects.
). The following