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July 17, 2020
Question

Paste on multiple layers at once?

  • July 17, 2020
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Is it possible to paste something on mutliple layers that you selected at once?

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schroef
Inspiring
December 29, 2023

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?!

c.pfaffenbichler
Braniac
December 29, 2023
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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? 

schroef
Inspiring
December 29, 2023

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

 

@c.pfaffenbichler 

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

Stephen Marsh
Braniac
July 17, 2020

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.

 

Stephen Marsh
Braniac
July 20, 2020

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!

JJMack
Braniac
July 17, 2020

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.

JJMack
Bojan Živković11378569
Braniac
July 17, 2020

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

AshFackAuthor
New Participant
July 17, 2020

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! 

Participating Frequently
May 20, 2023

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?

Michael Bullo
Participating Frequently
July 17, 2020

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.