How to make your own Paint Shop Pro scripts to eliminate repetitive tasks

What are Paint Shop Pro scripts? Paint Shop Pro Scripts are commands/tasks that you record while your working, and play back/execute them again later. They allow you to be more productive by saving you time on repetitive tasks. These scripts come in very handy for tasks such as embedding watermarks, adding titles/names/addresses, applying blurs/borders/frames, and/or any other commands/tasks you want to record. They are also a great way to save entire templates from your different projects. I use them all the time to recreate business cards, birthday cards, and/or Christmas cards. (I simply open a photo, execute my script, and it applies my previously created templates.) This may be common knowledge for some of you seasoned Paintshoppers, but for those of you that haven’t discovered Paint Shop Pro Scripts yet, I am sure you will find them very beneficial.

So how do I record and play back my own Paint Shop Pro scripts? It’s very simple actually. There are only a couple of steps. Lets take a quick look at the tutorial below. One last thing to note, you can also download and use pre-made scripts that others have made. A quick Google search for “paint shop pro scripts” should land you quite a few results.

Step 1

Open up Paint Shop Pro, and then turn on script recording. File > Script > Start Recording

Step 2

Now, issue some commands to Paint Shop Pro. For example, you could open up a photo and apply your favorite border, and/or embed a watermark. Whatever you decide, PSP is going to record all the commands you give, and will play back/apply those commands/tasks whenever you need them. NOTE: I created a script that will create the following layered image below. This script is very beneficial to me because it saves me time. Take for example, I often use this script on the final step of most tutorials here at Paintshopblog. This is so readers will know to click the image, to view the larger resolution.

Here is what the script does, it creates a transparent background, draws a rectangle selection, flood fills it with black, lowers the opacity of the black selection to 40 percent, creates a new raster layer, applies “Click to view full” white text on the new layer, centers the text, sets the font to Tahoma, and the font size to 20. As you can see, by recording these repetitive tasks, I can save myself about 10 steps of work. Now, anytime I need to apply this, I just execute my saved script, and the image below is what I get. For me, 1 step > 10 steps.. Very Nice!

Step 3

Once you are finished issuing commands to Paint Shop Pro. Simply go to File > Script > Save Recording.

Step 4

You will be prompted to name and pick a location to save your script. Name your script and click Save. NOTE: I always just save my scripts in Paint Shop Pro’s default script directory. `

Step 5

Finally, your script is now available for you to use anytime. To execute the script, simply go to File > Script > Run. Then select one of the scripts you have created, and watch Paint Shop Pro quickly execute the script

December 10, 2008 · Filed Under Beginner, Tutorials Scripts, Tutorials: All

posted by torQQue

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7 Responses to “How to make your own Paint Shop Pro scripts to eliminate repetitive tasks”

  1. Yo Spiff (Steve R.) on December 15th, 2008 5:23 pm

    A very useful tutorial.

    To make it even easier, a handy thing you can do for a frequently used script is adding it as an icon in your toolbar.

    View–>Customize–>Scripts.

    From here you can select a script, attach an icon to it, and place it in your toolbar.

  2. torQQue on December 17th, 2008 3:39 pm

    ^Thank you for that very useful tip, I will put it to good use. I did not know you could add icons in the toolbar for custom scripts. I learn something new everyday. Thanks again.

  3. adam on December 26th, 2008 2:24 pm

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  7. Larry Bezark on September 4th, 2009 7:22 pm

    I need help as to how do you actually record the script (ie how do you “issue a command”), I understand what they can do, but how do you actually record the script. I need to resize a batch of files.

    so basically the steps would be:
    1. open the file
    2. resize the file to 374 pixels in height (maintaining perspective)
    3 close the file, and
    4. save the file in a specified folder.

    Can you show me how to put these commands into a script.

    Thanks in advance.

    Larry B.

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