Paste on multiple layers at once?
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Is it possible to paste something on mutliple layers that you selected at once?
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I often use the keyboard shortcut (Command/Control + ~) to cycle through open files within Photoshop. The great thing is that when the last file is the active document, the keyboard shortcut will jump you to the first image.
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Uh, sorry I missed the point, it is about open documents not layers.
Ctrl + Tab will select next tab as already explained while Ctrl + Shift + Tab selects previous tab. You can aso click on two arrows on the right side of tab list and to select first or any other open document.
Not sure what exactly you want but there are multiple ways to select bottom most image in the Layers stack without clicking on each layer separately. One way is using keyboard shortcut Alt + , (comma) while Alt + . (period) will select top most layer. You can scroll down and manually select bottom most layer, to record action to select bottom most layer or even to fully automate and instruct photoshop to play action on Open Document event https://www.designeasy.co/2018/06/how-to-automate-boring-tasks-using.html
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Maybe I'm doing something wrong but the problem is that if I do this and click the first image as soon as I close that image it goes back to the last open image, which is the bottom file. That is why I click each one so that when I finish an image and go to the next it is in order and I'm not continually hopping to that last image.
You know when you are in finder/file explorer and you can sort things by name a-z or z-a etc I'm basically looking for a way to change my image from z-a into a-z if that makes any sense at all!
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Hi! I'm looking for the solution for the same problem - if I open 50 images at the same time, Photoshop opens each of them but the last one is what I see first, etc.
I also tried Ctrl + tab and if I click the first image, it jumps back on the last. Did you find out how to solve this problem? I can see posts / videos about reversing layers but I don't want layers, I only need to reverse the opened files... If you got the answer, can you please describe how to do it?
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Please explain what you mean with screenshots.
What does »the last one« mean exactly – the last one you clicked in the Finder (temporally), the alpabetically last one, …?
What difference does it make in your workflow which image is frontmost after opening a bunch of images?
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Thanks for your quick reply.
We went on holiday and I wanted to edit the pictures with Photoshop. My camera exports the images to my PC day by day, so I have about 100 pictures per directory. I also like to write on some pictures, what they show (historical buildings or special natural places) and when the PS opens 10 images of the same building in "reversed" order, it'd be silly to write on the last one the name of the site. Also, I remember better "in order" what we did in the morning, noon, afternoon.
The images are made with my camera so their names are always "DSC_number"
If I select all files in one drectory (one day), PS opens them from the beginning, but it means I get the latest (from the evening) at the top, and I don't know how many there were about the same site.
Do you know what I mean? So when I edit and close the "top image" (#01437) I get the 01436, then 01435, etc., so I don't know which one was the first of the same site. As sometimes I only just click on "auto level" and save the image, it'd take a lot more of time to open then one by one.
I hope you can see now why I would need that PS shows me the images in "correct order".
Thanks.
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A new topic would have been better. This is about file open order, not layer order.
Photoshop's open dialog can sort and affect opening order. You can also use Adobe Bridge to open files in order. Finally you can use a Photoshop script to open files in order/reverse order.
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Hi Stephen,
my problem is also about file open order, not layer order. That's why I thought to ask the person who posted this 3 years ago.
I have 100 files in one directory, not 100 layers... Unfortunately I don't know Adobe Bridge, but I'll check it out if it can solve the problem of opening files in order.
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Ok, you're right, the topic title is incorrect.
Have you looked at my previous posts further down the page under this threaded reply?
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Hey Stephen,
I've looked at your previous posts indeed... Unfortunately the Ctrl + tab (+shift) shortcut doesn't work (as I've written in the post, I can click 50 times to get to the first file but as soon as I save & close it, it shows the last one again). As for "filtered by case-insensitive file extension" it seems great if you're an informatician or software-maker.. 🙂 I have no idea how to get to the place to change these lines. The "Adobe scripts" link doesn't help me neither... 😞 But I'll try to find an expert who can help me with it. Thanks to you too!
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Have you had time to install and test Bridge yet?
When you say »write in some pictures« do you mean you add metadata or do you add a Type Layer or …?
Re-saving jpgs in Photoshop will lead to increased damage due to the lossy compression being re-applied.
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Hey,
I haven't tested Bridge yet but I read about it and it seems to do the work.
As for write a text on the picture, it's indeed adding a type layer :
I know I can't change anything on the image after writing, but I save it as a jpg and leave the original psd file, so I can get back to the original at any time. I know that the file would be damaged but they're only for our souvenirs, not for an exposition, so it's OK.
Thanks for the tips.
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Hello all, I just saw this thread and realised that I probably have the answer. No need for Bridge, or scripts etc. Following is a procedure to illustrate how I do it. Here goes (BTW I'm running Windows 10):
1. Create a set of files in any folder, named as follows (they can be any filetype; I'm just using TIFF for this example):
01.tif
02.tif
.
.
08.tif
09.tif
2. Click on View in the folders menu bar, and select Details. Sort by Ascending Name, by toggling the little chevron above the Name column until it points upwards. 01.tif should now be the first entry, and 09.tif the last.
3. Click on 01.tif, then while holding the Shift key down, click on 09.tif. All nine files should now be selected.
4. Click and hold on 01.tif and drag&drop the selected files onto a PhotoShop shortcut on your desktop. [For the purpose of this exercise I'm assuming that you have a shortcut on your desktop which points to Photoshop.exe.]
5. PhotoShop opens the files in the following order:
01.tif
02.tif
.
.
08.tif
09.tif
09.tif will be the last window opened, and it appears on top of the other windows. If you click on the 'Window' menu item, the filenames displayed are as follows:
1 01.tif
2 02.tif
.
.
08 08.tif
09 09.tif
6. Now, quit PhotoShop and repeat step 2, except that this time you sort by Descending Name, with the little chevron above the Name column pointing downwards. 09.tif should be the first entry, and 01.tif the last.
7. Click and hold on 01.tif and drag&drop the selected files onto the PhotoShop shortcut on your desktop.
8. This time, PhotoShop opens the files in reverse order:
09.tif
08.tif
.
.
02.tif
01.tif
01.tif will be the last window opened, so it appears on top of the other windows. If you click on the 'Window' menu item, the files displayed are as follows:
1 09.tif
2 08.tif
.
.
08 08.tif
09 01.tif
I hope this is useful. I think it will solve Ancsi090929978672s34m's problem, at least.
Oh and I should say, I would support Stephen Marsh's call to have this tipped into a new topic. It has morphed into something that has nothing to do with layer management.
All the best - Brett RC.
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We spoke about this method earlier. However, when using batch, you assign a folder and this won't work. There is something funky going around when using batch on a folder.
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It is actually a workflow in Photoshop, it seems. When you close a new selected document, no matter where in the order it was during opening, Photoshop will still go to the order in which it opened the documents.
IE: if you open documents in order of 1 ~ 10 and you select Doc named 3 and than close that document. Photoshop will jump to Document 10. Because that was the last document opened.
If you want to keep order while working and closing documents. Like @Stephen Marsh showed you. Open de the documents in reversed order. You dont actually need a script for this.
However, it seems when we use Batch, this has some weird effect on the order of documents we open.
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Is Michael Bullo other account?
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A Script like load files into a stack has an interactive files selection dialog where you cam select files from all over the place from many folder one many disk. Once you done with your selections the script start and creates a document withe layers containing the composite images of your selected files.
The point is such a script could open the files in any order you want if there is some logical order. If the select you want to process is something simple like all the images in a folder or all the psd files in a folder the section process would be as simpler select folder dialog. The script would get the list of file and open in the reverse order process the list from the end to the beginning.
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Something like this which will open all files in a given directory, filtered by case-insensitive file extension...
/*
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/opening-images-in-reverse-order/td-p/11294160
Opening images in reverse order
*/
var inputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Please select the folder to open the images in reverse order:");
for (i = !(fileList = Folder(inputFolder).getFiles(/\.(jpg|jpeg|tif|tiff|bmp|png|eps|psd|psb|gif|tga)$/i).sort().reverse());
i < fileList.length;)
open(fileList[i++]);
https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html
Using .reverse() will load the files such as:
003.psd
002.psd
001.psd
(003 at the first left tab, 002 in the middle, 001 on the right tab which should be the first doc open/visible).
One can remove the .reverse() after the .sort() if required for the opposite order.
I'm not sure how to call the open dialog for interactive manual selection of only certain files, perhaps somebody that knows can post the code.
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P.S. At least on the Mac OS, the sort-order of files is maintained from the file/open dialog window when manually sorting and selecting the files to open... So no need for a script to get the required files open in the order you need!
EDIT: The File > Open window works the same on MS Windows too!
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I'm not sure how to call the open dialog for interactive manual selection of only certain files, perhaps somebody that knows can post the code.
I just stumbled over this old post as it was bumped... To answer my own question:
var openDialog = stringIDToTypeID( "open" );
executeAction(openDialog, undefined, DialogModes.ALL);
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You would need to use a custom script for this.
Im kinda baffled why most to all answers above are almost all about something completely different. I see stuff about opening documents. Is this forum getting totally mingled or what?!
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You would need to use a custom script for this.
Im kinda baffled why most to all answers above are almost all about something completely different. I see stuff about opening documents. Is this forum getting totally mingled or what?!
By schroef
How attentively have you perused this thread (that was started in 2020 by the way) before offering your critique?
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Yes, it starts with someone asking about copy/pasting on all selected layers and then suddenly its about opening images and tab-order. I scrolled up and down making sure it showed correctly
Have you checked the initial question of this post? Not sure why you attack me about this
Perhaps you see something different, but this is what i see


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