How to rasterize smart object layers with scripting

Hi!

I'm pretty new on photoshop scripting. I see there's a rather obscure way I can't even understand 😅.

I've tried iterating though layers, detecting that it's a smart layer, but I can't seem to raster it. Ex, I tried this:

if(layerRef.kind == LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT) {
layerRef.rasterize(LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT)
}

And I'm getting:

Runtime Error: Error Code# 1227: Illegal argument - argument 1
- Wrong type of enumerated value @ file '' [line:0, col:NaN

Eventually, I would like to be able to raster smart objects, and then re-create that raster content into a smartobject again.

For the moment, I don't care much about performance, I just want this to work as readable as possible.

Thanks!!

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Correct answer r-bin

Have you read about the rasterize function in the documentation?

Use instead

rasterize (LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT)
valid argument, e.g.

rasterize (RasterizeType.ENTIRELAYER)

r-binCorrect answer

Legend

Have you read about the rasterize function in the documentation?

Use instead

rasterize (LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT)
valid argument, e.g.

rasterize (RasterizeType.ENTIRELAYER)

Participant

haha! that made it work!

I've check the Photoshop Scripting Guide and Photoshop JavaScript Reference, I still don't see much info about the rasterize method.

Any help or directions on searching for creating a smart object from a given layer? 🙂

Legend

Try reading about the ScriptingListener plug-in here, or look for more yourself.

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