The Photoshop Productivity Series: Automating Photoshop

Getting Started

First things first: Where do we find all these automation features? In Photoshop, you can access them under File > Automate and File > Scripts. In Bridge, you’ll find them under Tools > Photoshop. As we’ll see, some functions appear in both applications and there are advantages to accessing the functions in both.

The main difference between accessing the automated commands from within Photoshop or Bridge is how you choose the files. Very simply, Bridge lets you easily choose images using the thumbnail view, and it combines automated tasks and scripts under one menu. When accessing the automated commands from within Photoshop, you need to select files by name—but you often can select a folder of files in addition to individual ...