Chadwick Wood

I'm Moving to Austin, Texas

wickamos — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:14:46 +0000

All of my current clients know, most of my friends know, and now it's time to let the rest of the internet know: I'm moving to Austin, Texas, on June 28th! Although my location is changing, most other things are staying the same: I'm still freelancing (with clients in several states), and I'm still working on my personal projects as well.

Aside from my client work, I'll be doing a lot of swimming and development for Sphericle this summer. Check back regularly for my progress on both of those fronts.

Sphericle now available on the iPhone App Store

wickamos — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:01:47 +0000

Well, Apple hasn't emailed me yet, but I checked Sphericle's review status today and it said "Ready for Sale", and sure enough, it's on the App Store now (although it isn't turning up in searches yet). Please download it, review it, and rate it highly! I'm already working furiously on the next release, which is going to be big! Stay tuned.

Applying our Photoshop Thumbnail Script to Multiple Documents

wickamos — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:05:31 +0000

A reader asked if there was a way to apply the Photoshop Thumbnail script I wrote to all open documents, so I figured I'd post it up here for everyone to see. All it takes is a small addition and modification, to iterate through all of Photoshop's open documents, instead of just the active one. Here's the code, with comments:

// docs is a reference to the Documents collection, that holds all open documents
docs = app.documents;

for (i=0; i < docs.length; i++) {
    // instead of getting the active document, iterate through each open doc
    doc = docs.index(i);

    // the rest of the script is unchanged
    doc.changeMode(ChangeMode.RGB);

    var thumbDim = 60; // the dimension of the square

    // crop to a big square, conditionally, based on dimensions
    if (doc.height > doc.width) {
        doc.resizeCanvas(doc.width,doc.width,AnchorPosition.TOPCENTER);
    }
    else {
        doc.resizeCanvas(doc.height,doc.height,AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
    }

    // resize, then auto-contrast and sharpen
    // specify that our units are in pixels, via creation of a UnitValue object
    doc.resizeImage(UnitValue(thumbDim,"px"),null,null,ResampleMethod.BICUBIC);
    doc.activeLayer.autoContrast();
    doc.activeLayer.applySharpen();

    // our web export options
    var options = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb();
    options.quality = 70;
    options.format = SaveDocumentType.JPEG;
    options.optimized = true;

    var newName = 'thumb-'+doc.name+'.jpg';

    doc.exportDocument(File(doc.path+'/'+newName),ExportType.SAVEFORWEB,options);
}

Getting Sphericle Approved for the App Store

wickamos — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:10:05 +0000

Well, the results are in on my first submission of Sphericle 1.0 to the App Store: rejected. They cited two very specific, and very valid reasons. Both reasons have to do with conforming to the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines, and they should be pretty easy to fix. They have to do with handling errors with regard to lack of internet connectivity, so as not to confuse users.

Hopefully by the end of today I'll have a new submission for them to review.

New Design

wickamos — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:48:42 +0000

Over the weekend, I implemented a new design for this site. I'm going for something that feels a little more refined. Also, the front page now differentiates between "articles" and "news". I hope you like it!