Tych Panel

Version 2.6.0 - Tue 21 Jul 2020

by Reimund Trost reimund@code7.se
Website http://lumens.se/tychpanel/

Description

Tych Panel is an extension for Adobe Photoshop that automates diptychs and triptychs creation. It supports an arbitrary number of layouts using a powerful row/column compositing paradigm. Together with a super easy panel interface, Tych Panel is the ultimate diptych, tripych & ntych automation tool.

Tych Panel is released as open source and licensed under the MIT license.

Download & Install

1. Download & unzip https://www.dropbox.com/s/05fwlesonv4sbeg/tychpanel-v2.6.0.zip?dl=1
2. Run Photoshop as administrator.
   MacOS: In terminal, run ´sudo /Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CC\ 2018/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CC\ 2019.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CC\ 2018´.
   Windows: Right click Photoshop executable > Run as administrator.
3. In Photoshop, goto File > Scripts > Browse...
4. Browse to the newly uncompressed folder. Select the installer.jsx that corresponds to your Photoshop version.
5. Restart Photoshop.
6. Show the panel by going to Window / Extensions / Tych Panel.

Building & testing (CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019, CC 2020) - Html5 panel

1. Run package-html to build the panel.

2. Install using installer script. In Photoshop, goto File > Scripts > Browse...

3. Select the installer.jsx that corresponds to your Photoshop version.

4. Restart Photoshop.

5. Enable the panel via Window / Extensions / Tych Panel in Photoshop.

Installation (CS5, CS6, CC) - Flash panel

1. Copy the contents of scripts/photoshop to /Presets/Scripts/Tych Panel (create the "Tych Panel" directory if needed).
2. Open flash-panel/Tych Panel.gpc in Adobe Configurator and export it to /Plug-ins/Panels.
3. Enable the panel via Window/Extensions/Tych Panel in Photoshop.

Changelog

2.6.0

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 && 2020 (upgraded to CEP 9).

2.5.0

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (upgraded to CEP 8).

2.4.1

• Fixed bug in installation script preventing installation on CC 2017.
• Installation script now gives better error messages (hopefully).

2.4.0

• Added drag & drop support. Just drag pictures to the buttons in the panels.

2.3.6

• Photoshop CC 2015.5 compatibility fixes.

2.3.5

• Fixed incorrect paths in Bridge script.

2.3.4

• Added installer script for installing without Adobe Extension Manager.

2.3.3

• Photoshop CC 2015 compatibility fixes.

2.3.2

• Included missing thumbnail placeholder image.

2.3.1

• Fixed broken 'Use selected images in Adobe Bridge'.
• Fixed issue with Bridge startup script adding menu elements multiple times.
• Fixed issue with large images.

2.3

• Ported panel to html5 panel (Flash panels were discontinued in Photoshop CC 2014).
• Added color theme support.
• Adapted for retina displays.

2.2.2

• Fixed flatten bug.

2.2.1

• Fixed revert units bug.
• Fixed bug which caused documents being closed when autosave=false.

2.2.0

• Tych Panel ProTools support.

2.1.8

• Keep transparency when flattening documents.

2.1.7

• Fixed bug when specifying the same image twice or more from the command line.

2.1.5

• Prevent reorder window from appearing when with only one image from command line.

2.1.4

• Fixed issue with reorder window not appearing when called from command line.

2.1.3

• Fixed bug with long filenames. Names with more than 255 characters will be truncated.

2.1.2

• Alert the user when trying to save to an invalid directory.

2.1.1

• Use the correct icon on new row button.

2.1.0

• Changed theming of CS6 panel to match the default (dark) theme of PS CS6.
• Added icon.

2.0.2

• Minor fix for PS CS6.

2.0.1

• Fixes a bug that breaks Tych Panel in non-English Photoshop installs.

2.0.0

• Reorder images with thumbnails.
• New impoved row/column paradigm that allows virtually unlimited number of layouts.
• Rows & columns can be attached on either side of your document.
• Resize to both target width & height.
• Maintain width or height when adding new rows & columns.
• Convert images to smart objects.
• Ability to use layer masks instead of cropping images.
• Run Tych Panel on selected images in Adobe Bridge.
• Added option to use selected images in Adobe Bridge as input
• Save as PSD.
• Background color option.
• Support for images with layers (via Flatten Image)
• Outer border width and color options.
• Rounded corners on each image.
• Rounded corners on outermost images.
• Added option to save each individual layer.
• Smarter file naming so that allows the resulting file name to derive from input files.
• Save as PNG.
• Apply an arbitrary number of actions.
• Decide when to apply actions - before laying out pictures, or after.

0.9.96

• Removed workaround for panel background color. If the color doesn't match in PS, you should update your Photoshop.

0.9.95

• Fixed triptych bug that made seams the wrong size and the background to not be filled.

0.9.94

• Fixed nasty bug which made the script ignore that the resizing option was disabled.

0.9.93

• Preload button images; hopefully fixing problem with button state images not showing all the time.

0.9.92

• Fixed rounding error issue on some of the layouts (diptych 1 and 2 and quaptych grid) giving seams that were slightly off.

0.9.91

• Fixed compositing bug with already opened document.

0.9.9

• Fixed unit bug where current unit in Photoshop was used rather than pixels, leading to images being resized using the wrong unit.

0.9.84

• Use own stack script instead of Adobe's "Load Files into Stack" which acted a bit buggy when called from a html link.

0.9.83

• Fixed 'Close on save' bug.
• Changed to button layout to be centered and added a little top margin.