"Change layers in ACR" might be executed or by script?

I am trying to integrate the Dr. Brown: Script CS5: change the layers in ACR (http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html)

in an existing workflow, not my choice.

Here is my delemna. I'm provided CMYK PSD files, and my final backup files must be CMYK PSD.

ACR via Bridge wants TIFFs, script Dr. Brown wants RGB. I know that I can batch convert TIFF or RGB, if necessary, but I think a action/script running in each open file could be simpler and less subject to error or oversight, as each image will be individually opened and edited in any case.

The way I am treated this manually is as follows:

Open PSD CMYK.

Duplicate the Image

Convert the Dupe in RGB

Run the script of "Layers in ACR" on RGB Dupe

Brand changes and click OK in the ACR

+ Shift + drag resulting RGB Dupe layer in the original document of CMKY (centered)

Close the Dupe without saving changes

This gives me a new layer of ACR'ed to blend/mask in my original necessary file.

I tried the action of these steps and everything is working properly through ACR... but... the action is not which actually layer Dupe/cab ' ed more at the Original (drag and drop) document. The ACR Dupe'ed is closed so that the original file is left unchaged.

How can I automate the transfer of the Dupe to the Original layer?

I made a good many changes to Dr. Borwns layers of change in the script of the cab. Here are some of the most important changes.

1. now supports color RGB, CMYK, Lab and grayscale modes. If the document is not embedded tiff RGB is converted to RGB using RGB profile for work in Photohsop.

2 now supports vector masks.

3. the density and the pen of the mask Panel settings are now kept for channel and vector masks.

4. now, to keep the name of the original layer.

5. don't use a State in history.

It is a script of CS5. It can work in CS4, but I didn't test.

On my system when the document canvas size get above about 20-25 members ACR really slows down. Well above that and it takes too much time or crashes. So I would say that this script is not designed for documents with sizes really big canvas in high resolution.

I could not find a way to replace the contents of a smart object with a tiff file and do not have the ACR dialog show when the ACR are set to change the TIFF in ACR. Because of this it really cannot be registered by an action, the ACR dialog box will always show. If you install the script in the scripts folder, it can be called from an action like any other script. It just does not work in batch mode.

Support the transparent layer is still is not ideal because ACR does not support transparency. If it was my script, I drop the support of the transparent layer instead of trying to force ACR to do something is was not designed to do.

// c2011 Adobe Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
// Produced and Directed by Dr. Brown ( a.k.a Russell Preston Brown )
// Written by Tom Ruark because I wrote listener! I get credit for all listener code.

/*
@@@BUILDINFO@@@ Dr Browns Edit Layer in ACR.jsx 1.1.1
*/

// enable double clicking from the Macintosh Finder or the Windows Explorer
#target photoshop

// save some state so we can restore
// we pop the ACR dialog so users can cancel out and we are in a bad state
var historyDocument = app.activeDocument;
var historyState = app.activeDocument.activeHistoryState;
var isCancelled = true;

app.activeDocument.suspendHistory( 'Dr Browns Edit Layer in ACR', 'EditLayerInACR();');
if( isCancelled ){
     if (historyDocument != app.activeDocument) {
          app.activeDocument.close( SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES );
     }
     app.activeDocument = historyDocument;
     app.activeDocument.activeHistoryState = historyState;
}
isCancelled ? 'cancel' : undefined;// do not localize cancel

function EditLayerInACR(){
// Show this message just once.
// If I have preferences then I must of done this already.
var message = "Special Instructions\r";
message += "Make sure that you have set your Camera Raw Preferences to the following setting:\r";
message += "(Automatically open all supported TIFFs)\r";
message += "To access this preference setting, go to your Main Menu and select: Photoshop/Preferences/Camera Raw\r";
message += " \rAlso, your default resolution for TIFF images in ACR must be set to 240ppi. If you see your layers change in size, then you know that your resolution is not set correctly.\r";
message += "";

var optionsID = "5714ecb5-8b21-4327-bf64-135d24ea7131";
var showMessage = true;
try {
    var desc = app.getCustomOptions(optionsID);
    showMessage = false;
}
catch(e) {
    showMessage = true;
}

if (showMessage) {
    alert(message);
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
    desc.putInteger(charIDToTypeID('ver '), 1);
    app.putCustomOptions(optionsID, desc);
}

var tempName = "Raw Smart Temp";
var tempFile = new File( Folder.temp.toString() + "/" + tempName + ".tif" );

try {

// make sure active layer is a normal art layer
if( app.activeDocument.activeLayer.typename != 'ArtLayer' || app.activeDocument.activeLayer.kind != LayerKind.NORMAL ) return 'cancel';

// change image res to match defalut ACR 240
if( app.activeDocument.resolution != 240 ) {
     var docRes = app.activeDocument.resolution;
     app.activeDocument.resizeImage(undefined, undefined, 240, ResampleMethod.NONE);
}

var channelMask = hasChannelMask();
var vectorMask = hasVectorMask();
var layerTransparency = HasLayerTransparency();

// save channel mask if exists
if( channelMask && !layerTransparency ) {
     var channelMaskSettings = getChannelMaskSettings();
    var tempAlpha = channelMaskToAlphaChannel();
     deleteChannelMask();
}
// save vector mask if exists
if( vectorMask && !layerTransparency ) {
     var vectorMaskSettings = getVectorMaskSettings();
    app.activeDocument.pathItems[app.activeDocument.pathItems.length-1].duplicate( 'tempPath' );
     app.activeDocument.pathItems[app.activeDocument.pathItems.length-1].remove();
}
if( layerTransparency ) {
     if( channelMask ){// apply existing channel mask
         var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Msk ') );
          desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
          desc.putBoolean( charIDToTypeID('Aply'), true );
          executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Dlt '), desc, DialogModes.NO );
     }
     if( vectorMask ) {// save existing vector mask
          var vectorMaskSettings = getVectorMaskSettings();
          app.activeDocument.pathItems[app.activeDocument.pathItems.length-1].duplicate( 'tempPath' );
          app.activeDocument.pathItems[app.activeDocument.pathItems.length-1].remove();
     }
     var transMask = layerTransparencyToAlpha();
     // stamp visible
     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
    desc.putBoolean( charIDToTypeID('Dplc'), true );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('MrgV'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
     // merge down
     executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Mrg2'), undefined, DialogModes.NO );
}

convertLayerToACRSmartObject();

// create a  channel mask from original layer transparency
// currently does not support a layer with transparency and existing channels mask.
if( layerTransparency ) {
     alphaToChannelMask( transMask );
     transMask.remove();
     if( vectorMask ) {
          app.activeDocument.pathItems['tempPath'].select();
          createVectorMask();
          setVectorMaskDensity( vectorMaskSettings.density );
          setVectorMaskFeather( vectorMaskSettings.feather );
          app.activeDocument.pathItems['tempPath'].remove();
     }
}
// restore channel mask if needed
if( channelMask && !layerTransparency ) {
     alphaToChannelMask( tempAlpha );
     setChannelMaskDensity( channelMaskSettings.density );
     setChannelMaskFeather( channelMaskSettings.feather );
     tempAlpha.remove();
}
// restore vector mask if needed
if( vectorMask && !layerTransparency ) {
     app.activeDocument.pathItems['tempPath'].select();
     createVectorMask();
     setVectorMaskDensity( vectorMaskSettings.density );
     setVectorMaskFeather( vectorMaskSettings.feather );
     app.activeDocument.pathItems['tempPath'].remove();
}

// well at least this is the same!
// replace contents of selected smart object
var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
desc.putPath( charIDToTypeID( "null" ), tempFile );
executeAction( stringIDToTypeID( "placedLayerReplaceContents" ), desc, DialogModes.NO );

tempFile.remove();

// convert back to orginal resolution
if( docRes != undefined ) app.activeDocument.resizeImage(undefined, undefined, docRes, ResampleMethod.NONE);

isCancelled = false;// no errors so save to record
} /* try block ender */
catch(e) {
     if( tempFile.exists ) tempFile.remove();
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////// functions below /////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// see if i can tell that this layer has transparent pixels
function HasLayerTransparency() {
    var hasTransparency = false;
     if( app.activeDocument.activeLayer.isBackgroundLayer ) return false;
    try {
        SelectLayerTransparency();
        var s = activeDocument.selection;
        if ( null != s && ! s.solid ) {
            activeDocument.selection.deselect();
            return true;
        }
        if ( (s[2].value - s[0].value) == activeDocument.width.value &&
             (s[3].value - s[1].value) == activeDocument.height.value) {
            activeDocument.selection.deselect();
            return false;
        }
        activeDocument.selection.deselect();
    }
    catch(e) {
        activeDocument.selection.deselect();
        hasTransparency = false;
    }
    return hasTransparency;
};
function SelectLayerTransparency() {
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( "Chnl" ), charIDToTypeID( "fsel" ) );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID( "null" ), ref );
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID( "Chnl" ), charIDToTypeID( "Chnl" ), charIDToTypeID( "Trsp" ) );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID( "T   " ), ref );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID( "setd" ), desc, DialogModes.NO );
};
function SaveAsTIFF( inFileName ) {
     var tiffSaveOptions = new TiffSaveOptions();
     tiffSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
     tiffSaveOptions.imageCompression = TIFFEncoding.TIFFLZW;
     tiffSaveOptions.alphaChannels =  false;
     tiffSaveOptions.layers = false;
     app.activeDocument.saveAs( new File( inFileName ), tiffSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE );
};
// a color mode independent way to make the component channel active.
function selectComponentChannel() {
    try{
        var map = {};
        map[DocumentMode.GRAYSCALE] = charIDToTypeID('Blck');// grayscale
        map[DocumentMode.RGB] = charIDToTypeID('RGB ');
        map[DocumentMode.CMYK] = charIDToTypeID('CMYK');
        map[DocumentMode.LAB] = charIDToTypeID('Lab ');
        var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
            var ref = new ActionReference();
            ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), map[app.activeDocument.mode] );
        desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
        executeAction( charIDToTypeID('slct'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
    }catch(e){}
};
// function to see if there is a raster layer mask, returns true or false
function hasChannelMask(){
     if( app.activeDocument.activeLayer.isBackgroundLayer ) return false;
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     return executeActionGet( ref ).getBoolean( stringIDToTypeID( 'hasUserMask' ) );
};
// function to see if there is a vector layer mask, returns true or false
function hasVectorMask(){
     if( app.activeDocument.activeLayer.isBackgroundLayer ) return false;
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     return executeActionGet( ref ).getBoolean( stringIDToTypeID( 'hasVectorMask' ) );
};
// create an new alpha from layer channel mask, returns channel object.
function channelMaskToAlphaChannel() {
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Msk ') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Dplc'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
    var dupedMask = app.activeDocument.activeChannels[0];
    selectComponentChannel();
    return dupedMask;
};
function deleteChannelMask() {
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Msk ') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Dlt '), desc, DialogModes.NO );
};
// creates a layer channel mask from a channel object
function alphaToChannelMask( alpha ) {
     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
    desc.putClass( charIDToTypeID( "Nw  " ), charIDToTypeID( "Chnl" ) );
     var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID( "Chnl" ), charIDToTypeID( "Chnl" ), charIDToTypeID( "Msk " ) );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID( "At  " ), ref );
    desc.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID( "Usng" ), charIDToTypeID( "UsrM" ), charIDToTypeID( "RvlA" ) );
     executeAction( charIDToTypeID( "Mk  " ), desc, DialogModes.NO );
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Msk ') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
    desc.putBoolean( charIDToTypeID('MkVs'), false );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('slct'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
            var ref = new ActionReference();
            ref.putName( charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), alpha.name );
        desc1.putReference( charIDToTypeID('T   '), ref );
        desc1.putBoolean( charIDToTypeID('PrsT'), true );
    desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID('With'), charIDToTypeID('Clcl'), desc1 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('AppI'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
    selectComponentChannel();
};
// creates a new alpha channel from active layer's transparency, returns channel object
function layerTransparencyToAlpha() {
     var tempAlpha = app.activeDocument.channels.add();
     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
            var ref = new ActionReference();
            ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Chnl'), charIDToTypeID('Trsp') );
        desc1.putReference( charIDToTypeID('T   '), ref );
        desc1.putBoolean( charIDToTypeID('PrsT'), true );
    desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID('With'), charIDToTypeID('Clcl'), desc1 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('AppI'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
     selectComponentChannel();
     return tempAlpha;
};
// gets channel mask settings, returns custom object
function getChannelMaskSettings(){
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     var desc = executeActionGet(ref);
     var channelMask = {};
     // density should be percent. it is 0-255 instead. so convert because percent is need to set
     channelMask.density = Math.round((desc.getInteger( stringIDToTypeID( 'userMaskDensity' ) ) / 255)*100);
     channelMask.feather = desc.getUnitDoubleValue( stringIDToTypeID( 'userMaskFeather' ) );
     return channelMask;
};
function setChannelMaskDensity( density ) {// integer
     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
        var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
        desc1.putUnitDouble( stringIDToTypeID('userMaskDensity'), charIDToTypeID('#Prc'), density );
    desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID('T   '), charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), desc1 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('setd'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
};
function setChannelMaskFeather( feather ) {// double
     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
        var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
        desc1.putUnitDouble( stringIDToTypeID('userMaskFeather'), charIDToTypeID('#Pxl'), feather );
    desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID('T   '), charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), desc1 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('setd'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
};
// gets vector mask settings, returns custom object
function getVectorMaskSettings(){
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
     var desc = executeActionGet(ref);
     var vectorMask = {};
     vectorMask.density = Math.round((desc.getInteger( stringIDToTypeID( 'vectorMaskDensity' ) ) / 255)*100);
     vectorMask.feather = desc.getUnitDoubleValue( stringIDToTypeID( 'vectorMaskFeather' ) );
     return vectorMask;
};
function setVectorMaskDensity( density ) {// integer
     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
        var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
        desc1.putUnitDouble( stringIDToTypeID('vectorMaskDensity'), charIDToTypeID('#Prc'), density );
    desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID('T   '), charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), desc1 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('setd'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
};
function setVectorMaskFeather( feather ) {// double
     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
        var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
        desc1.putUnitDouble( stringIDToTypeID('vectorMaskFeather'), charIDToTypeID('#Pxl'), feather );
    desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID('T   '), charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), desc1 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('setd'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
};
// create a layer vector mask from active path
function createVectorMask() {
  try{
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putClass( charIDToTypeID('Path') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );
        var mask = new ActionReference();
        mask.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Path'), charIDToTypeID('Path'), stringIDToTypeID('vectorMask') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('At  '), mask );
        var path = new ActionReference();
        path.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Path'), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
    desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('Usng'), path );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Mk  '), desc, DialogModes.NO );
  }catch(e){ return -1; }
};
// converts the active layer into a tiff embedded smart object so it can be edited in ACR .
// editing in ACR requires ACR preferences to be set to edit all supported tiffs
function convertLayerToACRSmartObject(){
     var layerName = app.activeDocument.activeLayer.name;
     app.activeDocument.activeLayer.name = "Raw Smart Object";
     // trim layer to document bounds.
     app.activeDocument.crop(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.bounds);
     // convert selected layer to smart object
     executeAction( stringIDToTypeID( "newPlacedLayer" ), undefined, DialogModes.NO );
     //  edit selected smart object
     executeAction( stringIDToTypeID( "placedLayerEditContents" ), new ActionDescriptor(), DialogModes.NO );
     if(app.activeDocument.bitsPerChannel != BitsPerChannelType.SIXTEEN) app.activeDocument.bitsPerChannel  = BitsPerChannelType.SIXTEEN;
     if(app.activeDocument.mode != DocumentMode.RGB) app.activeDocument.changeMode(ChangeMode.RGB);
     SaveAsTIFF( tempFile );
     app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
     app.activeDocument.activeLayer.name = layerName;
};
};// end EditLayersInACR()

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