Very Basic Script Making

The idea of making scripts can be frightening. I balked at using scripts for almost a year although I knew they could be useful for doing time consuming and annoying tasks. I depend on three scripts in daily PSP. I have a large variety of scripts. I bought some, downloaded a ton of others and have made my own. That, in itself, can be a nuisance when I want a timesaver and have to scroll to find it. A bound script eliminates that problem unless you get too many of them. I have 3 bound scripts pinned to my Tools Palette on the left side of my workspace.

Scripting is easy once you realize that you are simply recording a common task before saving it. That task becomes a single click operation in the future.

One task that annoys me because it is time consuming when I'm in a hurry, and I usually end up hitting the wrong command, having to repeat the process. I fixed the annoyance of:
Selections > Select All
Selections > Float
Selections > Defloat

This is the script you will learn to make a bound script from. This is baby steps scripting. Once you use it, you'll wonder why you didn't do this a long time ago. It's so easy and saves alot of cussin' later on. That's a guarantee.

If it's not open in your toolbars, open your Scripts Toolbar first. Right click on a blank spot on your desktop and select Toolbars > Scripts



Open any tube that's on a transparent background.

Make sure that the layer you want to "defloat" is the layer selected before you start the script. Click on the O in your script toolbar to start recording.



Now, do the action you want the script to do.

Selections > Select All
Selections>Float
Selections>Defloat

Stop!

The Save Icon will be active instead of greyed out. Click it and save your script giving it a name that you will remember.

(I saved mine as Vetchfloatdefloat. I've taken to naming my work with my name. Not out of vanity, but so I can tell if it's something I did or something I snagged. That's when you know you've done way too much PSP!)

Walla! You just created your very first script and saved it to use over and over.

Before going any further, try it out. Deselect the tube. Click the dropdown arrow by the Scripts selections and find the new script you just saved. Click the blue arrow next to the name box and see if your script is going to work.

Great job! Congratulations!

Now, let's make that puppy into an icon that will stay on your desktop so you don't have to look for it.

Right click on an empty spot on your workspace and choose Customize.

Select the Scripts tab. If you need to, search for your new script in the dropdown box. (The one that is selected in the scripts toolbar is the one that will show up in the Customize name box.)

Select an icon for your BOUND SCRIPT that you can live with on your desktop. I chose a star.

Click on Bind. It adds the new script with a shiny new icon to the Bound Scripts list below.

Pretty cool, huh? But, we're not done yet.

Click on the Toolbars tab and makes sure that Boundscript is checked.

Click on the Commands Tab and choose Boundscript. It will show the icon(s) of the boundscripts you made.

Drag and drop the icons to your toolbar where you want them placed. You can put them on a separate toolbar or cram them somewhere into any other toolbar you want. I put mine just below my Tools Toolbar so they are there all the time.

When you remember to use these basic task scripts, you soon will be dependent on them.

Happy BoundScripting!