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Hi,
A friend of mine is working on a project for a painting course and came to me in the hopes that the current phase of it could be automated in Photoshop. Basically, she has a greyscale picture over which she draws a black grid with each square about an inch on a side.
After drawing the grid, she goes through each square and determines, through a rough estimate, the "level" of greyscale contained in the underlying picture for that particular square. Basically, a completely white grid area is considered having a value 0, black has value 10. Intermediate shades of grey would fall in between these bounds. Check out
http://members.cox.net/~m_masi/example.jpg for an example of what I mean.
So the question is, can this process be automated in Photoshop? Creating the grid doesn’t seem to be a problem, it’s getting the program to process each individual square and produce an arbitrary greyscale value.
I’m wondering if there exists a plugin that can provide this functionality. Does the software have scripting capabilities that could allow me to accomplish this? Eventually, I’d like to have it so she could load any greyscale image, run a plugin/script/etc and get a text file with a bunch of numbers corresponding to the greyscale grid values. Maybe I’m asking for more than what this progam can offer, but I would appreciate any insights! Thanks in advance.
Mike
A friend of mine is working on a project for a painting course and came to me in the hopes that the current phase of it could be automated in Photoshop. Basically, she has a greyscale picture over which she draws a black grid with each square about an inch on a side.
After drawing the grid, she goes through each square and determines, through a rough estimate, the "level" of greyscale contained in the underlying picture for that particular square. Basically, a completely white grid area is considered having a value 0, black has value 10. Intermediate shades of grey would fall in between these bounds. Check out
http://members.cox.net/~m_masi/example.jpg for an example of what I mean.
So the question is, can this process be automated in Photoshop? Creating the grid doesn’t seem to be a problem, it’s getting the program to process each individual square and produce an arbitrary greyscale value.
I’m wondering if there exists a plugin that can provide this functionality. Does the software have scripting capabilities that could allow me to accomplish this? Eventually, I’d like to have it so she could load any greyscale image, run a plugin/script/etc and get a text file with a bunch of numbers corresponding to the greyscale grid values. Maybe I’m asking for more than what this progam can offer, but I would appreciate any insights! Thanks in advance.
Mike
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