Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop UXP Plugin API

The modern plugin development platform for Photoshop, replacing the legacy CEP framework. UXP (Unified Extensibility Platform) is powered by a V8 JavaScript engine supporting ES6+ and provides Spectrum design components for building panels and dialogs using HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript. Plugins access a rich Photoshop DOM API for interacting with documents, layers, and actions, along with platform APIs for file system access, network I/O, clipboard operations, and more.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/
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APIReference
https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/ps_reference/
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APIReference
https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/uxp-api/
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GettingStarted
https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/guides/

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adobe-photoshop/refs/heads/main/json-schema/adobe-photoshop-uxp-plugin-manifest-schema.json

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: adobe-photoshop:uxp-plugin-api
name: Adobe Photoshop UXP Plugin API
tags:
- Desktop
- DOM API
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript
- Plugin Platform
- Spectrum UI
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.example.com
humanURL: https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/
properties:
- url: https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/
  type: Documentation
- url: https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/ps_reference/
  type: APIReference
- url: https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/uxp-api/
  type: APIReference
- url: https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/guides/
  type: GettingStarted
- url: json-schema/adobe-photoshop-uxp-plugin-manifest-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
description: The modern plugin development platform for Photoshop, replacing the legacy CEP framework.
  UXP (Unified Extensibility Platform) is powered by a V8 JavaScript engine supporting ES6+ and provides
  Spectrum design components for building panels and dialogs using HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript. Plugins
  access a rich Photoshop DOM API for interacting with documents, layers, and actions, along with platform
  APIs for file system access, network I/O, clipboard operations, and more.