Photoshop move question

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#1

I am putting together a script in Photoshop where I need to move a layer to the left or right by a certain amount of pixels. I have gone through the entire dictionary and scripting reference and don’t seem to find any command or way of moving a layer. I tried changing the bounds of the layer but this is “read only” and there is no scripting method, that I could find, for doing a transform and moving it that way. And the “move” tool only changes the location of the layer in the layer pallette–not the x and y location of it in the image.

Any suggestions?

#2

You need to use the translate command, move is used for other purposes. This may not seem logical to the average user but there is a lot to do in PS and the engineers need some way to differentiate the myriad number of commands.

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
	translate layer "Test" of current document delta x 10 delta y 20
end tell
#3

Thanks. That worked. Didn’t think to look for translate!:rolleyes: