How to setup a new icon in toolbar with customized parms?

[pstein]

Assume I have to increase oftentimes but not always the brightness of digital photos by a certain value (e.g. 20). The contrast should be 0.

Ok, I could go now (in PSP X2) to menu

Adjust--->Brightness and Contrast---->Brightness/Contrast

then manually adjust the values and click OK.

However these multiple steps is somehow unhandy. Even if I put the Brightess/contrast icon into the toolbar I still have always to adjust the actual values.

I want to perform this operation by ONE click.

Is there a way to put a customized icon into toolbar which (when clicked) performs always the brightness/contrast operation
with my pre-defined values regardless which values are set up currently in the "normal" brightness/Contrast dialog?

if yes: How can I do it (in PSP X2)?

Peter

[LeviFiction]

Scripts.

1) Record a script using the values you want. 2) Then bind the script to an icon. 3) Finally drag that icon onto a toolbar.

1) Recording a script is easy. Make sure you have the script toolbar visible by selecting it from the View menu.
Next hit the big red Record button (big red circle) and it'll start recording your actions. Use the command you want to execute and change the parameters to what you want. The script will record everything.

Next hit the Save Script button (floppy disk) and give it a special name.

Finally, select that script in the script toolbar and click on the "Edit Script" button (pencil on a scroll) and change the execution mode of the command from Default to Silent. This prevents the dialog from popping up when you run the script.


2) In the View menu go to Customize

In the Customize dialog click the "Scripts" tab.

Select the script you want to bind to an icon from the drop-down list. In this case the script you just made. And select an icon to use.

Finally click on "Bind" and you should see it appear in the bottom list with the icon next to it. You're now ready to move the script into a toolbar.

3) While still in the customize dialog drag the script from the bottom list onto a toolbar. It will go ahead and dd the script to the toolbar.

Now when you click on the icon it will run the script for you. And since you set it to run Silently no dialogs will pop up.

Even better, you can also bind a script to a short-cut key if you prefer shortcuts to toolbar items. Or you can drag it into a menu.