Altering Hue/Saturation using scripting

Hi,
I can't work out how to change the hue/saturation/brigtness in photoshop using scripting (currently using applescript) - the 'adjust' command doesn't seem to work.
As I'm using multi-coloured images I don't want to simply fill them with a colour.
Any hints or tips really appreciated!
Thanks

I'm not quite sure how to execute the javascript function from applescript?
and make it operate on the current layer of current document...
I've tried this in applescript:
    tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS4"
        set myDoc to current document
        set myLayer to current layer in myDoc
        do javascript (file "/ Users / emmashipley / huesatlight.jsx") ¬
            with arguments {10, 10, 10}
    end tell
and am getting this error message:
Applescript error:
Adobe Photoshop CS4 got an error: General Photoshop error occurred. This functionality may not be available in this version of Photoshop.
- <no additional information available>
The javascript file huesatlight.jsx is saved in the path referred to so not sure why this isn't working?
Thanks for the help!

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"Max thank you for solving this for me."
I still don't know what went wrong in your original code, so it's not really "solved" I guess!
Anyway, about layer("ADBE Effect Parade") it's the same thing as layer.Effects or layer("Effects") but I'm never sure of what will work in a non-english version of AE.
That's why I'm adding the Hue/Saturation effect using "ADBE HUE SATURATION" instead of "Hue/Saturation"
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- the number of sub-properties of the current poperty (so for the Hue/Saturation effect, that will give you the number of controls of the plugin UI, although there may be some hidden ones too)
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1. So this is simply the wrong tool to change the color?
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Thanks Zeno. Creating a layer with the color and using the blend mode worked fine. But as I stated in the original post, using the H/S/B (there is no HSL) values from the color picker does not work when you place them into the H/S/L values in the hue-adjustment layer with (or without) the colorize box checked. But your first suggestion worked like a charm. Thank you.

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Ok, Jeff, I can not find post 8, i am probably stupid but I do not see how to get to post 8. As far as your question is concerned about ACR and PS differences; I have never really compared them. Apart from the fact in acr every adjustment you make is global, whereas in PS you can mask out and use layers and target areas to be adjusted. I would imagine that there would not be any fundemental difference in the two. One is manipulating th esame information in both packages. Now if you were to ask me to compare say the HSL sliders of photoserif 11 and ACR then I would choose ACR. the reason being is that PS is a professional package and Serif is not. I began with Serif.
But please let me see your first question (8) maybe I ma missing something.
Bets Regards
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