create a layer to apply globally to all work plans

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• Is it possible to resize all work plans at the time the way that you used to be able to do in the configuration of document?

  I have a document with 20 work plans. When I resize a that only changes that are. I'm in CS5. Is it possible to resize all work plans at the time the way that you used to be able to do in the configuration of document? Thank you very much!

  Wade_Zimmerman wrote:

  It's a good script but t vrry does not resize some plans of work and not wouldn't

  @ Wade

  You can recode and a confirm in the loop to determine if you want to resize the work plan current in the iteration of the loop, if no installation then jump her, if yes then prompt for sizes and move forward. Then you can resize regardless of those that you wish as such, some and not others. You can even distinguish with each confirm and ask what work targeted plan by displaying its name. I tested this approach and it seems to work ok, but not super stylish, of course, because if you have tons of work plans, it would be a large number of guests/entry. You could lesson prompts by combining the width/height in a single guest. But then again, even at this time sound just as effective to resize each manually via the window of work plans, probably the same amount of work/time user input processing and the targeting of individual work plans. You could perhaps also create script window for multiple entry for plans of work desired, may be based on the selected and build your dialogue window accordingly, I suppose that, at this time, it would provide a more effective approach for this kind of thing that you seem to be describing.

  But that all said that we would be well beyond the original request that CarlosCanto already so generously filled. He might have some comments on your comments.

• How to use the action on all work plans

  I'm trying to find a way to use a single action that can be applied to several work plans.

  How you configure your work plans and guides. I just tried a test action that created two work plans using the work plan tool, then I did drag the guides. The guides are per document, and not unique to each work plan, but the action ran fine.

• Axes on all work plans

  Hi all

  I am trying to create some simple vertical centerlines to shoot at the same place on all existing work plans in my document.  What I have so far is creating a sufficient amount of centerlines, but only drawing in the right place on the half of the plans of work while the other half are drawn into the space between work plans.  Here's what I have so far.

  function addCenterLines() {
      var doc = app.activeDocument;
  
      for (var i = 0; i < doc.artboards.length; i++) {
  
      var abRect = doc.artboards[i].artboardRect;
  
  
      { // Add top line
      var line = doc.pathItems.add();
      line.stroked = true;
      line.setEntirePath( Array( Array(abRect[2]/2, abRect[1]-10), Array(abRect[2]/2, abRect[1]-20) ) );
      };
  
  
      { // Add bottom line
      var line = doc.pathItems.add();
      line.stroked = true;
      line.setEntirePath( Array( Array(abRect[2]/2, abRect[3]+10), Array(abRect[2]/2, abRect[3]+20) ) );
      };
  
  
      }
  }
  
  

  Here is a screenshot showing the top of a couple of work plans and the central lines placed between the two.

  

  I think I have a misunderstanding of how the abRect coordinates the work, as in which side is [0], [1], [2] and [3], which can be driven to my inability to get this right.  If someone could point me in the right direction so I can sort my construction lines, I would greatly appreciate!

  Thank you

  Ben

  NOTE: Centerlines provided in the print dialog box are not an option in this case.

  artboarRect values in the table are [left, top, right, bottom]

  check this example, I got carried away and added horizontal lines

  function addCenterLines() {
      var doc = app.activeDocument;
      for (var i = 0; i < doc.artboards.length; i++) {
  
      var abRect = doc.artboards[i].artboardRect;
  
      // be more explicit to make it easier to visualize/read/handle
      var abLeft = abRect[0];
      var abTop = abRect[1];
      var abRight = abRect[2];
      var abBottom = abRect[3];
  
      var abWidth = abRect[2]-abRect[0];
      var abHeight = abRect[1]-abRect[3];
      var abCenter = abWidth/2;
      var abMiddle = abHeight/2;
  
      { // Add top line
      var line = doc.pathItems.add();
      line.stroked = true;
      line.setEntirePath( Array( Array(abLeft+abCenter, abTop-10), Array(abLeft+abCenter, abTop-20) ) );
      };
  
      { // Add bottom line
      var line = doc.pathItems.add();
      line.stroked = true;
      line.setEntirePath( Array( Array(abLeft+abCenter, abBottom+10), Array(abLeft+abCenter, abBottom+20) ) );
      };
  
      { // Add left line
      var line = doc.pathItems.add();
      line.stroked = true;
      line.setEntirePath( Array( Array(abLeft+10, abBottom+abMiddle), Array(abLeft+20, abBottom+abMiddle) ) );
      };
  
      { // Add right line
      var line = doc.pathItems.add();
      line.stroked = true;
      line.setEntirePath( Array( Array(abRight-10, abBottom+abMiddle), Array(abRight-20, abBottom+abMiddle) ) );
      };
  
      }
  }
  
  addCenterLines ();
  

• Group all work plans

  Is it possible to move all the cards of the art at the same time? Our Creative Director wanted 12 concepts, and I like working with them, all this while I can improve/eliminate the worst concepts.

  

  Above is the result of reorganizing the art boards, but feel here like a kind of paste that manually move each art Board, I get this by making a new artbaord.

  

  I can just make a new document .ai, but just looking for more stuff work with plans as rename them to digital control with a single command.

  The art Board size is 41.7 "x 64,45, on CS6 and I could do in 2014 CC. Did not notice any help in CC2014, but we don't use CC every day, so may be missing something.

  Hi Mike, it's with CS5

  make 2 copies, manually by dragging with the tool of work plan

  

  re - organize once again

  

  fact

  

• Is there a way to make the guides specific art-Council, rather than the Global - Crossing other work plans?

  

  When you are in mode (select art Board tool) to the artboard, drag guides.

• Error when creating a layer of text, when 2 + work plans are available in the document

  Hi, I met a weird error while trying to create a new text layer.

  When a single work plan is available in the document, the script works well and create a new empty text layer;

  When 2 or more work plans are available in the document, the script generates the layer, but she then gets stuck when trying to convert a text. The console says "the layer cannot contain text.

  Paste my code here with comments.

  #target photoshop
  
  
  //this script attempts to create a text layer above the selected layer contained into an artboard.
  //For some reason, it works on the first available artboard, but not on the other ones. The error is "The layer cannot contain text"
  
  
  //get active PS document
  var doc = activeDocument; 
  
  
  //get active artboard 
  var currentArtboard = getActiveArtboard();  
  
  
  //create new art layer in the current artboard
  var newLayer = currentArtboard.artLayers.add();
  
  
  //trying to convert to text layer. Fails when 2+ artboards are available int the document
  newLayer.name = "test";
  newLayer.kind = LayerKind.TEXT; 
    
    
  function getActiveArtboard() {  
      var key = false;
      var l   = doc.activeLayer;
      var p   = l.parent;
  
  
      try {  
          while (!key) {  
              doc.activeLayer = p;  
              var ref = new ActionReference();  
              ref.putEnumerated(charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt'));  
              key = executeActionGet(ref).getBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("artboardEnabled"));  
              if (key) {  
                  return p  
              }  
              p = p.parent;  
          } 
  
  
      } catch (e) {  
          alert('This layer is not contained within an artboard');  
          return undefined; 
      }  
  }  
  

  
  

  Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

  var doc = activeDocument;
  
  var currentArtboard = getActiveArtboard();
  
  function makeTextLayer() {
      var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
      var desc2 = new ActionDescriptor();
      var ref = new ActionReference();
      ref.putClass(app.charIDToTypeID('TxLr'));
      desc.putReference(app.charIDToTypeID('null'), ref);
      desc2.putString(app.charIDToTypeID('Txt '), "text");
      var list2 = new ActionList();
      desc2.putList(app.charIDToTypeID('Txtt'), list2);
      desc.putObject(app.charIDToTypeID('Usng'), app.charIDToTypeID('TxLr'), desc2);
      executeAction(app.charIDToTypeID('Mk  '), desc, DialogModes.NO);
      return doc.activeLayer
  }
  
  var newLayer = makeTextLayer();
  
  newLayer.move(currentArtboard, ElementPlacement.INSIDE);
  
  function getActiveArtboard() {
      var key = false;
      var l = doc.activeLayer;
      var p = l.parent;
      try {
          while (!key) {
              doc.activeLayer = p;
              var ref = new ActionReference();
              ref.putEnumerated(charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt'));
              key = executeActionGet(ref).getBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("artboardEnabled"));
              if (key) {
                  return p
              }
              p = p.parent;
          }
      } catch (e) {
          alert('This layer is not contained within an artboard');
          return doc
      }
  }
  

• How the layer is duplicated into several work plans?

  Hello

  I use Photoshop CC 2015.

  I'm working on a document with different arboards.

  And I need to duplicate a layer from one to all work plans.

  Is it possible to do?

  Thanks for your help!

  Unfortunately there is no other way for the exception manually.

• By selecting the same outline color or fill in only a single work plan (not all)?

  This seems to be an obvious question. I have 6 work plans in a document, each containing a slightly different version of a complex logo that I'm working on. In the past, I would have just used a large body of work and had a layer for each different version but this time I thought I'd give multiple work plans, a go (I've just updated for CS3) and without layers. Trying to go to Select - same line color, it seems that it selects the same color of stroke on ALL working plans. In the past I would have had the layers locked except the one I was working on. I looked in preferences to see if there's something to turn it off, but it does not exist. Am I missing something?

  One thing you can do:

  Select the entire document on the artboard, you are dealing with, select reverse, Lock (Cmd + 2).

  This way you have blocked all on other work plans.

  You can now select same wotever on the artboard, you deal with without affecting the others.

• Layer Palette list jumping around on DSP with multiple work plans

  Just upgraded to Photoshop CC2015, and I'm doing a work of mobile design - work plans are perfect for this kind of work, so I decided to take advantage of the new functionality of the artboard. Now, a lot of actions that update of content in the palette layers (duplicate elements, for example), force the selected item to be concentrated in the top of the layers palette. This means that my layers are constantly scrolling themselves around and making it physically exhausting to use Photoshop. I'm on a retina screen 27 "(5K iMac)." Not only did I get distracted by the pallet to move, I have to also remember where I was still in the palette (layers are named, but I have 26 work plans, so it's a lot.), then scroll around to get there.

  Also, when I delete the layer, the palette groups of select and focus parent of the deleted group at the top of the list. In this case, let's say I duplicated only accidentally an item (and then removed), then I have to realize I've been teleported elsewhere and find my way back.

  I know the new behavior of items being placed in groups now sitting at the top instead of the bottom of the group - is not that, but maybe a bug related to this new behavior?

  This issue does not appear to occur in PSD who did no work plans.

  Hi Zack,

  There is bug here that is being developed at the present time in development.

  When you choose the command duplicate the layer (or group of two copies) and the layer is a work plan, it is moved to the top of the layer stack and then re-nested in the above work plan that can hold the layer. When nested in a work plan, the layer is placed on top of the stack in the artboard. Most of the time, it seems just the layer gets duplicated upward from the current artboard, but in some cases, as you have discovered, it can actually go to another plan of work.

  Of course, this is problematic.

  The workaround for now is option and drag the layers in the layers palette to explicitly in the order of desired layer stack.

  In addition, there are a number of other behaviors that you describe in this thread that I think can also be problematic, but he'll have to look more carefully. Thanks for the information and please let us know if you see anything that affects your workflow with work plans.

• Adjustments to the sliders in brush adjustent are applied globally, not locally

  Hello, I am a new user of Lightroom and don't know if I'm missing something. Of all the Googling, I did apparently not someone else has had this problem, or maybe I'm not looking for the right keywords. About 50% of the time when the adjustment brush stops working as a brush, and on the contrary any setting that I do for cursors is applied globally to the entire image immediately. What happens while I'm using the adjustment brush and clicking on 'new '.   Is there a setting that is getting changed in the course of my work flow to cause this? Thank you in advance!

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• Hello... I'm having a problem with ps cc ever time that I create a layer mask

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  Can you please try reset tool.

  To reset a tool, you must first have the selected tool. Then Ctrl-click (Windows users: right click) the button tool preset in the Tool Options bar.

  

  When you click this button, you will see a small menu and you can select Tool Reset to reset the current tool to its default value or reset all tools to deliver all the tools to its default value. Once selected, the tool will act as the first time you have used it.

  

  Using this simple method to reset your tool with a single click, you can quickly remedy any situation where the tool does not correctly and to maintain the flow of creativity going.

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• I need help creating a layer mask to this jpeg.

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  When I select all, then copy and paste the image in the layer mask he paste a black rectangle. No matter what I do, it creates the transparent part semi of the mask.

  

  Hello, Kim.

  Try this.

  (1) convert the image into grayscale

  (2) harvest as requires it

  (3) find a graphic you want to use the border on and drag it down about the size of the image of the border

  (4) with the two open files select all in the graph on the border

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  It should look like this

  

  Hope that helps

  Terri

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  Happy to help you. This program is INCREDIBLE... but he got a very different "paradigm" of the interface which works very well once you have learned and it work a number of hours, and oh, spent two full weeks on Creative Cow & Lynda dot com & so on... the people who created this built and he remade and re-built it and all did a wonderful job , but... documentation of how he can do all the stuff for it, and how to use it... was never an immediate need.

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