Photoshop 3.0.4 SDK PDF Guide Manual

Introduction
Welcome to Adobe Photoshop TM Software Developers Toolkit! With this guide, you can create a software known as plug-in modules that extend the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop.

Audience
This equipment is for C programmers who want to write plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop for Macintosh and Windows. This guide assumes that you are proficient in C programming language and tools. Source code in this toolkit is written for compilers Apple MPW and Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Mac and Microsoft Visual C + + on Windows and Windows NT.

You should have a working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, and understand how plug-in modules to work from the user perspective. This guide assumes you understand Photoshop terminology, such as paths, layers, masks, etc. For more information, contact the Adobe Photoshop User Guide. This guide contains information on creating plug-in modules for Photoshop versions of Unix.

How to use this guide
This toolkit documentation begins with information that is common to all types of plug-in. Chapter 2 provides an overview on writing plug-ins, including specific information for Mac OS and Windows development. Chapter 3 deals with a callback routine to Photoshop. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss Pipli PiMI and resources that provide plug-in host with information about plug-in modules. Chapters 6 to 9 cover four types of plug-in modules (load, export, Filter and Format) in detail.

The best way to use this guide is the first reading of Chapters 1 to 5 Then turn to the chapter contains specific information about the type of plug-ins you write. If you are writing plug-ins, you should also study and understand the source code of the sample plug-ins. You can choose to use these source files as a starting point for creating your own plug-in modules.

Content Photoshop plug-in toolkit
Files included in this toolkit includes C language header files PITypes.h, PIGeneral.h, PIAqcuire.h, PIExport.h, PIFilter.ha PIFormat.h that define structures and constants that you need to build a plug-in modules. “Examples” directory contains the complete source code examples for each plug-in type. There is also a directory containing information on the Adobe Developer Association.

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September 13, 2009 | Posted in Image Processing Manual, Software

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