Hi guys, I got a little question in mind: I often need to trace objects in photoshop to illustrate them. And for the tracing I put a layer below the layer I am drawing on as a reference. So what I would like to do is, change the view options to two window and hide the reference layer in only on of the views, so I can draw in one window and see the finish outcome instantly in the other window.
A simple toggle of the visibility won't work, as it influence both of the windows.
Hey there, thanks for your reply, I just thought of working with smart objects, but I would like to have something like a "live preview" which won't work with smart objects.
It is actually possible to have 2 documents opened like on your png screenshot, so one next to other, where the second is duplicate of first. Everything will be like you wish with exception that content of other document (with only "Draw" layer) will be immediately updated each time you release left mouse button, so at the moment of ending some another of many drawings you do for example with Brush Tool. Would be that okey for you? I think yes as in original post you said:
"so I can draw in one window and see the finish outcome instantly in the other window."
so after all you don't expect completetly 'live preview' that you said in next post of you?
By duplicating the image, I got an independent file and the changes which I apply in one image won't transfer to the second image. This is not what I'm looking for.
Yes I know it's not you look for, because I didn't mention scripting must be involved into this process. I mean manually you can't do it, but that can be programmed what I'm able to do. Still I didn't get answer is finish outcome sufficient for you after each mouse button release?
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