Photoshop does have a Javascript scripting system and IDE (ExtendScript Toolkit) that exposes many of its features. Unfortunately its pretty slow and clunky, a

Photoshop does have a Javascript scripting system and IDE (ExtendScript Toolkit) that exposes many of its features. Unfortunately its pretty slow and clunky, and it doesn't let you draw programmatically or anything like that. I used it to create a texture/sprite atlas maker for game development[1], and to do batch image composition for animation frames in my last game project[2]. I tried to use it to create animated image processing effects, but I ended up having to use Processing, after reimplementing a bunch of Photoshop features in Java. [1] http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/ http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-tex... [2] http://richardjdare.com/blog/2013/03/toxin-advanced-sprite-techniques/ http://richardjdare.com/blog/2013/03/toxin-advanced-sprite-t...