in which folder do I put a script (.jsx) in PSE9?

[Paul Whiting]

Here's the script (action the same thing, only with .atn extension?) I'm trying to install:

QTR StepWedge Tool.jsx

It has to do with linearizing a printer file and was presumably created in the full version of PS.

I'm using Win 10, and PSE9. I may need to tell you more!

Regards,

Paul Whiting

[Sepiana]

Hi Paul,

I believe this is the path.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 9.0\Presets\Scripts

[Paul Whiting]

Thank you, Sepiana,

Hmm, that's what I thought... actually that's where I thought it should go, and put it there before I posted my question. Just wanted to confirm that for me! There's also a subfolder called "Stacked Scripts Only". Can you tell me what that means? I put my script there as well just to be sure.

At any rate, when I call on the script, nothing happens. First I scan a 21 step gray scale, select the steps, and then I execute the script. I should then get a dialog to help me proceed with the rest of the linearization process. But I don't get that dialogue. According to The Missing Manual, I execute the script by doing this: Edit > Guided > Automated Actions > Action Player. But my script does not show up in the dialogue boxes.

Stumped!

Paul

[Sepiana]

Paul,

I have no experience installing .jsx files in Elements. However, if you are supposed to execute this script by going to Edit>Guided>Automated Actions>Action Player, then, the logical place to install it would be in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\9.0\Locale\en_us\Workflow Panels\ . . . There is a folder called actions at the end of this path but I don't see any .jsx files inside it or even inside the Workflow Panels folder.

Hopefully someone else will be able to help you.  If not, I strongly suggest you post in either one of these two Adobe forums.

forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop_elements

feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/categories/photoshop_family_photoshop_elements

[Major Major]

Found this on the web, if it helps:

I don't know if this will be any help, but here are some instructions from the instruction page that I have for installing scripts in PSE on Windows 7:


Close PSE, if you have it running.

Locate the folder for your operating system within the files you have downloaded and unzipped.
Inside this folder you will find an .atn (action) file, a .png file and a .jsx script file.

Install the Script:
Copy and paste the .jsx file to the following location:
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\ Photoshop Elements

Install the Action:
Copy and paste the .atn file and .png file to the following location:
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\ Photoshop Elements\(your version number)\Photo Creations\photo
effects

[Tpgettys]

Hi Paul,
I am on very uncertain ground here, but I do not think there is a way to invoke a script from within PSE like you can do with actions and such.  I can tell you that a script is NOT simply another name for an action; they are very different things.

Try this and let me know if it works for you:
    Get everything ready in PSE for running the script
    Locate the .jsx file on your computer
    click and drag the .jsx file onto the main PSE window

That should cause the script to run on the currently loaded image (if my understanding of these things is correct)

[Sepiana]

Mar 31, 2016 18:47:56 GMT Major Major said:

Found this on the web, if it helps:

I don't know if this will be any help, but here are some instructions from the instruction page that I have for installing scripts in PSE on Windows 7:


Close PSE, if you have it running.

Locate the folder for your operating system within the files you have downloaded and unzipped.
Inside this folder you will find an .atn (action) file, a .png file and a .jsx script file.

Install the Script:
Copy and paste the .jsx file to the following location:
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\ Photoshop Elements

Install the Action:
Copy and paste the .atn file and .png file to the following location:
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\ Photoshop Elements\(your version number)\Photo Creations\photo
effects

Craig,

Thanks! This helps! The only problem is that the instructions to install the action (.atn file) in the photo effects folder assume there is an accompanying .png file, which Elements will automatically convert to a .jpeg file to create the thumbnail for the Effects panel. If Paul doesn't have a .png file, then, the logical place would be to install the .atn file to be accessed via the Action Player because in this case all you need is the .atn file.

C:\Program Data\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\9.0\Locale\en_us\Workflow Panels\actions

Then, open Elements and the action you installed will be in the Action Player drop-down menu.

I wonder if this is what he had in mind when he said:

Mar 31, 2016 16:52:10 GMT Paul Whiting said:

According to The Missing Manual, I execute the script by doing this: Edit > Guided > Automated Actions > Action Player. But my script does not show up in the dialogue boxes.

I did some checking around and learnt someone had asked a similar question about installing .jsx files in Elements in the Adobe Photoshop Elements forum.

Elements 9 - Actions

[Sepiana]

Mar 31, 2016 16:52:10 GMT Paul Whiting said:

Paul, sorry! I overlooked your question.

I checked several versions of Elements. The Stack Scripts Only folder contain the .jsx files for the Photomerge Panorama feature. I recommend you remove your script from there.

[Paul Whiting]

Sepiana et al,

Sepiana, you asked where in The Missing Manual for PSE9 I found the text on scripts and actions. It's pages 434-436. At the start of this section I found the phrase "An action is a little script". Aha, there's where I (and perhaps, with due respect to Mlle Barbara) went astray. As one member in this thread said, they are not the same. Of course they're not says I, why else would they have different extensions!

What threw me off was that there are in fact scripts in PSE, and they do end in .jsx. But these have to do with panorama or something like that. Wherase there are actions files (.atn) in another folder and these are the ones that pop up when I go to Quick Edit -> Automatic Actions. But .jsx files and .atn files are in entirely separate locations, I discovered.

So what I need is an Action file version of the QTR Stepwedge Tool.asx.

One suggestion was to go to the Adobe Forums and post my question there, so perhaps I'll do that. The file I downloaded is a .zip file, and contains only a documentation file, the .jsx script, and a tiff of a 21 step gray scale. Alas, it does not contain an Action version.

@Tpgettys : I did try your drag the script file over to my image, but somehow that didn't take hold... I'll try again.

@everyone else: Thanks so much for all your suggestions, I have read them all!

All for now,

Paul

[Tpgettys]

Hi again Paul,
I am assuming your are trying to run the script available here

The documentation says that it is to be used in Photoshop CS3 or CS4, so I am not hopeful about its success in PSE. 

However, I was able to run it myself by simply double-clicking on the .jsx file.  If that doesn't work for you you will need to either set up the association between that filetype and PSE, or use the drag-and-drop method I described earlier.  Photoshop does have a means for launching a script through the user-interface, but PSE does not, and so it doesn't matter where you choose to place the jsx file.

For me, it chugged along for a bit and then PSE crashed, but in the meantime it appeared to be working correctly (displayed a dialog and such).

[Tpgettys]

BTW, if you have an action that is bundled with a jsx file, then it WILL matter where the jsx file is housed, simply because the action will expect to be resident in some specific folder.

The action you place where all actions go, so that when you open the actions window it will be found, but then after it is launched if there are support files (such as a script) it will go looking for them where the documentation tells you to put them.

[Sepiana]

Mar 31, 2016 22:40:01 GMT Paul Whiting said:

Sepiana, you asked where in The Missing Manual for PSE9 I found the text on scripts and actions. It's pages 434-436. At the start of this section I found the phrase "An action is a little script". Aha, there's where I (and perhaps, with due respect to Mlle Barbara) went astray. As one member in this thread said, they are not the same. Of course they're not says I, why else would they have different extensions!

Paul, thanks! I found it.

I am quite familiar with Barbara Brundage's writings (going back to Elements 4). I believe she is using "scripts" in that section to mean "a list of commands that are executed by a given program". In this sense, she is right. An action (.atn file) is a little script, i.e., a series of commands automating the steps needed for doing something.

[Paul Whiting]

tpgettys,

Yes, you are correct... what you have found is the very script I'm working with.

Would you care to elaborate on just how you double-clicked the .jsx file? I mean, how do I view it, or access it, when I'm looking the work area in PSE? I know where it is, but when PSE is up and running, I don't see the .jsx file anywhere that I can double-click on it. And is right or left double-click.

Sounds hopeful - thanks for that tip.

Paul

[Paul Whiting]

Tom,

Hold it... I think I answered my last question. I simply clicked Open on the .jsx file, outside of PSE, in the unzipped folder of the download you pointed out. It was just a single click. And I got the dialogue box! And it hasn't crashed (yet). Apparently it doesn't need to be in any particular folder, accessible within PSE. Things are looking up.

Crossing my fingers,

Paul

[Tpgettys]

Excellent Paul! I am so glad it is running for you! Almost certainly I had the wrong kind of file loaded when I tried running it, and That is what caused it to crash.

BTW, I looked at you site and really am intrigued by the digital charcoal printings; I would imagine the blacks are very deep! You said it is on the surface of the paper; will it smear?