Can I loop an action in Photoshop ?

Hi guys, I am in need of something similar but I added a Save step to my action. But it seems that as the action is looped in the script, the save is always with the same name, overwritting each file instead of saving each layer to a separate file 😞

(Ps: I saw a simier question asked by someone else and the answer was a script to run. I have no idea about scripts or coding. So couldn't really understand the reply.)

I created the following guide to help users such as yourself use scripts:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html?m=1

I wrote such a script to create a separate SO from all top level layers/sets here, so no need for an action:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/smart-objects-in-separate-layers/m-p/11137197?page=1#M331763

// convert all top level layers and layer sets to smart objects.jsx

function main() {

    if (!documents.length) {
        alert('There are no documents open!');
    } else {
        processAllLayersAndSets(app.activeDocument);
    }

    function processAllLayersAndSets(obj) {

        // Process all layers and layer sets
        // Change the following 2 entries of "obj.layers" to "obj.artLayers" to exclude layer sets
        for (var al = obj.layers.length - 1; 0 <= al; al--) {
            app.activeDocument.activeLayer = obj.layers[al];

            newPlacedLayer();

        }

        // Process Layer Set Layers 
        for (var ls = obj.layerSets.length - 1; 0 <= ls; ls--) {
            processAllLayersAndSets(obj.layerSets[ls]);

            newPlacedLayer();

        }
    }

    // Convert to smart object (Cleaned AM code)
    function newPlacedLayer() {
        var s2t = function (s) {
            return app.stringIDToTypeID(s);
        };
        executeAction(s2t("newPlacedLayer"), undefined, DialogModes.NO);
    }
}

activeDocument.suspendHistory('Smart Objects from Layers & Sets', 'main()');

That being said, the great thing about a script that plays an action is that you can record an action to do what you want without having to rely on somebody to write you a specific script.

Hi,

You can loop through all the layers using javscript and call your actions using method app.doAction

var doc = app.activeDocument;
for (var i = 0; i < doc.layers.length; i++) {
    doc.activeLayer = doc.layers[i];
    app.doAction("Action 1","Set 1");
}

app.doAction will take two parameters, first is Name of the action(here "Action 1") and second is Set Name (here "Set 1") in which exists. You can change both according to your actions defined in the photoshop.

Let us know if this works for you.