Anyone doing large scale image handling with Adobe Photoshop will occassionally want to automate some tasks. The easiest way to do this is by writing an action. However, Photoshop actions don’t allow you to ask questions, or act in different ways based on different circumstances. In the terms a computer programmer might use, Photoshop actions [...]

A few articles worth reading: Kathy Sierra fears the ease-of-use police. Though they mean well, they often destroy the usefulness of websites and software by dumbing down the product: Is our heart in the right place but our execution flawed when we neuter a product in the name of newbie-friendliness? In the push to make [...]