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December 7, 2017
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Layer counter

  • December 7, 2017
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Does anybody have or know of a utility to externally count P/S layers?

I have several thousand .psd files and would like to find out how many total layers they contain.

Trying to do such a thing manually would be impossible.

Thanks,

Joe

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    Correct answer Trevor.Dennis

    Layer Count is one of the options in the Info Panel options, so I suspect it will be scriptable

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    Ussnorway7605025
    Legend
    December 8, 2017

    joef1949  wrote

    Does anybody have or know of a utility to externally count P/S layers

    imo manually will be faster than making a script

    John Waller
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    Community Expert
    December 8, 2017

    He wants to count layers in thousands of separate PSD files. Tedious exercise if done manually.

    jane-e
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 8, 2017

    If you don't know how to write a script, it's probably worth hiring someone to do it for you.

    John Waller
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    Community Expert
    December 7, 2017

    I have several thousand .psd files and would like to find out how many total layers they contain.

    You need to count total layers in thousands of PSD files? Not just how many layers are in one single PSD?

    Should be a feature in Photoshop for this on a single PSD file

    Document Layer Count in Photoshop CC 2015.5 « Julieanne Kost's Blog

    I don't know of any scripts to count all layers in thousands of PSD files sitting on your hard drive.

    joef1949Author
    Participant
    December 7, 2017

    Yes, it's an artwork collection and they were all created with P/S 5.5 & P/S CS2. Is there any kind of external app which would return such a count from the total number of files in a folder [directory]? The total number of layers will probably be in excess of 100,000.

    Chuck Uebele
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    Community Expert
    December 7, 2017

    A script could do that, but each image would have to be opened in PS. I would be slow, but faster than manually counting them.

    Trevor.Dennis
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    Trevor.DennisCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    December 7, 2017

    Layer Count is one of the options in the Info Panel options, so I suspect it will be scriptable