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‎Jul 23, 2024
12:13 PM
This issue has still not been addressed in Phoroshop 2024. I have used Layer Comps for years and not noticed this issue. Why does it matter how something is moved? Can't the position of the layer be updated with the coordinates it is in at the time of saving the new layer comp? Compared to all of the advances in Photoshop since 2017, this seems like a relatively small fix.
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‎May 30, 2024
09:55 AM
I have recently upgraded to MAC OS Sonoma v14.5 and found that a keyboard shortcut I've used for a long time no longer works. Description of process: While on a layer (including a Background layer) I make a selection. I then hit CMD+OPT and drag (ctrl+alt+drag) the selection. This copies it to another part of the same layer. It doesn't create a new layer. For example; if I have one object in an image and I want two, I simply select it and drag to create two. This is nice because I could do it without jumping (layer via copy), moving and flattening. Now I see that this shortcut no longer works. Is this a bug? Is it something that Adobe can address and make it work in Sonoma? It would be great to have this timesaving shortcut back.
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‎May 28, 2024
12:30 PM
I just upgraded an iMac to OS X Sonoma14.5 and this same issue exists. The work around of right clicking the droplets and opening them does work but Adobe has still not addressed the issue of ensuring the droplets work after OS upgrade. It would be nice if this matter could be addressed and a fix created.
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‎Aug 25, 2023
02:07 PM
1 Upvote
I have now reopened Photoshop again and it's working normally. I had previously restarted Photoshop and tried multiple files with the same negative results. It appears to have been a "Glitch" rather than a Bug (I hope) My divice is an iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2019) macOS Monterey processor 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 Memory 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 Graphics Radeon Pto 580X 8 GB
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‎Aug 25, 2023
01:10 PM
2 Upvotes
I have just updated to 25.0.0 and now when I click on the generative fill field it expands beyond the right side of the Photoshop application window. There is no way to see any of the functionality to the right of the Generative Fill panel. Hitting enter does run the Generative Fill process.
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‎Oct 27, 2022
02:21 PM
Hi Stephen, Thanks for the link to the Photoshop Guru Script. That works great but I posted a request for a slight narrowing of it's scope. I need to narrow the layer names written to keywords to omly those found in a layerset called "Elements". If you or anyone else have any suggestions, it would be much appreciated. Thanks, https://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/threads/pull-layer-names-for-file-info-keywords.69966/#post-153...
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‎Oct 10, 2022
09:06 AM
You need to open the smart object and edit it. It appears that you are trying to edit the smart object as a regular layer. You could use a mask on the smart object to remove the background but you won't be able to delete it unless you open it in it's own window. Hope that helps.
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‎Oct 07, 2022
08:54 AM
1 Upvote
This is very helpful. Knowing what to use to get the desired results is important. I'm still very much learning.
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‎Oct 06, 2022
11:43 AM
The onlything I have done with Metadata was to transfer keywords to description for about 300K files because the DAM we had needed it. I'm sure there is a lot more I could do with Metadata. Our photographers are entering data such as sku, product skus in the shot and other data manually. I created an Excel document that concatonates product info into a string so they can copy/paste it easily. It would be nice if we could just scan products to enter the data.
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‎Oct 06, 2022
10:38 AM
Back in 1999 I attended my first NAPP conference. Scott Kelby was presenting in Los Angeles. YOU are the real thing! Congrats on the awards! Hmmm... Or did you just Photoshop them? LOL
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‎Oct 06, 2022
10:34 AM
Chuck, that Excel file is just my structual analysis of the directory structure. The CSV file that would be used would be more like this, attached. These products are to be placed in background scenes.Up to 5 will be chosen per background. I am likely to save all 5 as a group in a folder named for the primary sku [Sku1] in the CSV. Does this make more sense?
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‎Oct 06, 2022
10:13 AM
Yes, that's what I was thinking. It's a process of narrowing down from the root to the folder where the file should be located. Thank you for all your help. You and Stephen are invaluable and much appreciated!
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‎Oct 06, 2022
09:54 AM
Ye, thanks Chuck. That returns a zero that can denote "no alpha".
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‎Oct 06, 2022
09:52 AM
Yes, that's about it Stephen. If you look at my original post, I included a spreadsheet that had a folder structure that showed basicly how things are layed out. By using what you have provided, I was hoping to be able to read the file name from Excel and use it to hone in on the correct folder. Then I would pull the file from that folder to, as you said, a desktop folder for example. I would have to write something into the code to bypass a file that was not found/unavailable. I already have a script I wrote about 12 years ago with the help of Mike Hale, R.I.P., that asks the user for CSV location, Source and destination folders. It then grabs the files, renames them to Column B and saves them. I was hoping to somehow use it as the base to build upon. Only thing is, I would need to read the CSV and THEN determine each individual source folder based upon the SKU number read. The whole looping thing does my head in. Here is the Find, Rename and Save script. function main() {
var csvFile = File.openDialog("Open Comma-delimited File","comma-delimited(*.csv):*.csv;");
datafile = new File(csvFile);
var csvString = [];
if (datafile.exists){
datafile.open('r') ;
while(!datafile.eof){// read one line at a time until end of file
csvString.push( datafile.readln().replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') );
}
datafile.close();
}
var searchFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("Select folder to search in")
var saveFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("Select folder to save files")
getListOfFiles(searchFolder);
for(var l =0;l<csvString.length;l++){
var toFind=csvString[l].split(',');
for(var i=0;i<searchFiles.length;i++){
var m = toFind[0].toLowerCase();
if(decodeURI(searchFiles[i].name).toLowerCase() == decodeURI(m)){
var ext =searchFiles[i].name.substring (searchFiles[i].name.lastIndexOf ('.'));
var newFilepath = saveFolder.fullName+"/"+toFind[1]+ext;
if( saveFolder.exists && searchFiles[i] instanceof File){
var newFile = new File(newFilepath);
searchFiles[i].copy(newFile);
}
}
}
}
};
searchFiles=[];
main();
function getListOfFiles(folder) {
var fileList = folder.getFiles();
for (var i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++) {
var file = fileList[i];
if (file instanceof File) searchFiles.push(file);
if (file instanceof Folder) getListOfFiles(file);
}
}
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‎Oct 05, 2022
05:14 PM
1 Upvote
That works 🙂 Thanks Chuck!
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‎Oct 05, 2022
04:54 PM
Thank you Chuck! This worked very well too but it didn't handle a situation where there was no alpha character. I was able to pull the letter when one was present with your version, var sku = '24t23'
var pos = 'none'
for (var i =0;i<5;i++){
var digit = sku.substr (i, 1);
if(isNaN(Number(digit))){
pos = i+1
break;
}
}
alert( "The letter " + (myFunction(sku,pos)) + " is at position " + pos)
function myFunction(a, n) {
return a.charAt(n - 1);
}
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‎Oct 05, 2022
04:05 PM
Thanks Stephen, I'm checking it out now. Cheers!
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‎Oct 05, 2022
04:04 PM
Hi Chuck, Thank you for your feed back. I'm afraid I'm not highly skilled in the art of scripting and if you have some code examples that I can work with it would help greatly.
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‎Oct 05, 2022
02:56 PM
Hi folks, I am looking for a way to determine if and where an alpha character may be found in a string. I am trying to put a script together that would read the strings, which happen to be SKU numbers, from an Excel file. It would then determine what folder on a server to search in to retrieve a file. We have complex folder structure that is broken down into subfolders. Being able to know where the Alpha falls in the SKU# (file name) and report what the Alpha character would help direct me to the right place. Searching the terrabytes of data from the root directory is too slow. My end goal is something along the lines of : 1) Read the first string in column A in csv file. 2) Check if string has an alpha character and in what position it is. Currently SKUs are 5 characters long. 3) If an alpha is found, report the position and what letter it is to be used to determine the correct directory path to check for the file. 4) Download/copy file to a folder location. Theses are examples of strings and their associated folder structure. 12345 no alpha F1234 position 1 has folders: [alpha]2000-[alpha]2999 etc. D2000-D2999 1R234 position 2 has folders: 1C000-1C999, 1D000-1D999 etc. 12Y34 position 3 has folders: 10A-19Y, 20A-29Y etc. 123X5. position 4. has folders: 000A0-099A9, 100A0-199Z9 etc. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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‎Apr 26, 2022
09:41 AM
1 Upvote
I'm now using CSV UTF-8 (Comma delimited) (.csv) and it's working.
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‎Apr 23, 2022
03:23 AM
Thanks Stephen, No I didn't try using code. It would have to change the hyphens to code after it reads from the csv file and before writing if that's the answer. I have to look deeper at why the hyphens are stopping the text writing for me.
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‎Apr 23, 2022
02:13 AM
Hi, It seems that when I read the data from a csv file and try to write it to a text layer It breaks when there are hyphens in the string. Nothing is written. The ASCII characters do not apperear to cause an issue. Here is how I'm writing the data to the layers. Layer set with text layer. col_A is the vatiable that contains the data from the .csv file. app.activeDocument.layers.getByName( "Column A Layer" ).layers.getByName('col_A text').textItem.contents = col_A ; This does not work: 588-719-163-879-þ80 1-512-29-1286-5 This works: 90536601 944023 235 Y44 546 þ432 7245 7090 Using Photoshop 2021 on MAC OS X (Mojave) Thanks!
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‎Mar 17, 2022
11:41 AM
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
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‎Mar 06, 2022
04:37 PM
I am running a script that intermittantly fails with an error: Could not compleate your request because of a program error. I can't figure out why it's failing. Can you tell from this diagnostic? Photoshop Error information Code: -1 Text: because of a program error Message: Could not complete your request because of a program error. Stack: Adobe Photoshop 23.2.1 20220222.r.303 eedc582 0 address: 0x10925dffc base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '0 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x000000010925e02c Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 76668972' 1 address: 0x106fec224 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '1 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106fec224 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 40550948' 2 address: 0x106fec464 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '2 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106fec464 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 40551524' 3 address: 0x1099bd14c base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '3 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x00000001099bd14c Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 84398412' 4 address: 0x1099bd128 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '4 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x00000001099bd128 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 84398376' 5 address: 0x1099bd11c base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '5 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x00000001099bd11c Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 84398364' 6 address: 0x1099bd110 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '6 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x00000001099bd110 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 84398352' 7 address: 0x1099bd08c base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '7 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x00000001099bd08c Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 84398220' 8 address: 0x106fe9a64 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '8 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106fe9a64 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 40540772' 9 address: 0x106fe7820 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '9 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106fe7820 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 40532000' 10 address: 0x106fe5284 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '10 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106fe5284 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 40522372' 11 address: 0x106fcf6a0 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '11 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106fcf6a0 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 40433312' 12 address: 0x106fcf7c8 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '12 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106fcf7c8 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 40433608' 13 address: 0x106ed3428 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '13 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106ed3428 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 39400488' 14 address: 0x18f5a459c base: 0x18f13b000 module name: 'AppKit' symbol info: '14 AppKit 0x000000018f5a459c -[NSApplication _handleEvent:] + 76' 15 address: 0x18f16d5cc base: 0x18f13b000 module name: 'AppKit' symbol info: '15 AppKit 0x000000018f16d5cc -[NSApplication run] + 636' 16 address: 0x106ed3e90 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '16 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106ed3e90 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 39403152' 17 address: 0x106ed65a4 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '17 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106ed65a4 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 39413156' 18 address: 0x106fd0000 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '18 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000106fd0000 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 40435712' 19 address: 0x109915fc0 base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '19 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x0000000109915fc0 Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 83713984' 20 address: 0x10494533c base: 0x104940000 module name: 'Adobe Photoshop 2022' symbol info: '20 Adobe Photoshop 2022 0x000000010494533c Adobe Photoshop 2022 + 21308' 21 address: 0x10d7e10f4 module name: '<unknown module>' symbol info: '21 dyld 0x000000010d7e10f4 start + 520'
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‎Mar 05, 2022
06:14 PM
I have a question regarding the line var res It seems to work fine but I was wondering, don't you have to at least put something after the variable like var res = "" Is is good enought to declare a variable as simply a name as shown here?
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‎Mar 05, 2022
05:09 PM
1 Upvote
Thanks Stephen! This is very helpful and much simplified. I believe test() works with a string. I'll play with it and create a condition to append if false.
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‎Mar 05, 2022
04:39 PM
Thanks Stephen, That's what I figured. The file contents will need to be read in as some sort of array and then compared against fName. I wonder if I can just change the file extension when creating the log file to .csv? var fileName = decodeURI(doc.name); I wonder if I can just change the file extension when creating the log file to .csv? I do have the following code I used to read from an Excel doc saved as a CSV file. This first opens a dialog to chose a csv file. I'd replace it with a hardcoded path. //Open dialog to locate CSV file
var csvFile = File.openDialog("Open Comma-delimited File","comma-delimited(*.csv):*.csv;");
datafile = new File(csvFile);
//Open dialog to provide location of files to import
var searchFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("Select folder to search in")
var csvString = [];
if (datafile.exists) {
//open CSV file into memory
datafile.open('r') ;
// Skip first line
datafile.readln();
// read one line at a time until end of file
while(!datafile.eof) {
csvString.push( datafile.readln().replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') );
}
datafile.close(); //Close CSV after reading into memory
} The thing then would be to make the comparison and IF the entry does not exist, append fName to the file. I am learning to think, I am just behind on the doing! I'm learning though. 😉
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‎Mar 05, 2022
04:15 PM
Wouldn't this give the number of entries (lines) in the file?
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