We have some common Photoshop scripts/actions that we need to distribute to artists at our company.
Does Photoshop provide any kind of environment or common presets folder re-direction (so I can store them in one place on our server, rather than install them individually to MyDocs folders per work machine)?
Good grief, I already asked this last year! Memory fail…
http://tech-artists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1107
Ah well, if anyone has any better solutions than perforce, would love to hear them!
This is something we’ve talked about as well and something I feel we haven’t found a great solution for quite yet either.
However! Because all our tools are currently written in Javascript what we’ve done is made a new panel using Adobe’s Configurator and we add buttons that launch separate tools through this panel. The cool thing about this is that this panel is installed using Adobe’s Extension Manager allowing our artists to just install a new version of this panel that in turn installs the most recent scripts to their local machine. It’s relativity painless however there has been issues with this method if the artist for some reason doesn’t have admin abilities on their machine.
For actions, that’s a different story if using the panel and something I personally haven’t looked into. However if you wanted to keep everything bound to the panel, I’m sure you could package the actions within an “Actions Install Script” that just moves the actions into the proper dir. However another setup like step for that doesn’t seem like the right way to go about that.
Let me know if you run across a brilliant solution to all this, as we too could make some improvements to getting our tools out to the artists as well.
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better solutions that perforce[/QUOTE]
than or for?
Perforce works well for us, scripts and actions live on perforce, all the artist has to do is drag the actions into their photoshop windows and it’s all ready to go.
If there is another way I’d be interested to hear it.