Script for stamping the current and below layers

[Fat Croissant]

Hello Hello,

I am a total beginner in the field of scripting; so I ask and hope someone might help me out: Is there a script which stamps the current (selected) layer and all visible Layers below into a new Layer above the selected one?

(The "standard" Command "Shift - Alt - command - E" creates a Layer with all visible Layers below and above...)

I search for this kind of script for quite a time and didn't find it anyway.

Thanks a lot ,

Flo

[r-bin · Accepted solution]

Try it.

var d = new ActionDescriptor();
var r = new ActionReference();
r.putIdentifier(stringIDToTypeID("layer"), activeDocument.layers[activeDocument.layers.length-1].id);
d.putReference(stringIDToTypeID("null"), r);
d.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("selectionModifier"), stringIDToTypeID("selectionModifierType"), stringIDToTypeID("addToSelectionContinuous"));
d.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("makeVisible"), false);
executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("select"), d, DialogModes.NO);

var d = new ActionDescriptor();
d.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("duplicate"), true);
executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("mergeLayers"), d, DialogModes.NO);

Restrictions: does not work in CS6, should not have a Background layer.

Anyone can improve. )

[Fat Croissant]

Thank you very much! 

So far it works super nice 😉 (even with groups under the selected Layer!)

What do I have to do to make it work with an Background layer?

Thank s a lot so far!

[r-bin]

activeDocument.suspendHistory("Stamp layers below", "f()"); 

function f()
    {
    try
        {
        var last_layer = activeDocument.layers[activeDocument.layers.length-1]; 
        var has_background = last_layer.isBackgroundLayer;

        if (has_background) last_layer.isBackgroundLayer = false; 

        var d = new ActionDescriptor();
        var r = new ActionReference();
        r.putIdentifier(stringIDToTypeID("layer"), last_layer.id);
        d.putReference(stringIDToTypeID("null"), r);
        d.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("selectionModifier"), stringIDToTypeID("selectionModifierType"), stringIDToTypeID("addToSelectionContinuous"));
        d.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("makeVisible"), false);
        executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("select"), d, DialogModes.NO);

        var d = new ActionDescriptor();
        d.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("duplicate"), true);
        executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("mergeLayers"), d, DialogModes.NO);

        if (has_background) last_layer.isBackgroundLayer = true; 
        }
    catch (e) { alert(e); }
    }

[Fat Croissant]

Dear @r-bin ,

I wanna say thank you! Your script helps me a lot!
If I might ask you one more favour: If under the top Layer is a group (or more), after making a new Layer on Top all groups are opened. Is there any way to avoid this?

Thank you so much,

Florian

[r-bin]

Strange behavior. This is a bug or a feature. )

Try this script. It may be slower to work if there are many layers (or folders) of the first level of nesting.

activeDocument.suspendHistory("Stamp layers below", "f()"); 

function f()
    {
    try
        {
        var len = activeDocument.layers.length; 

        var act_layer = activeDocument.activeLayer; 

        var last_layer = activeDocument.layers[len-1]; 
        var has_background = last_layer.isBackgroundLayer;

        if (has_background) last_layer.isBackgroundLayer = false; 

        for (var i = 0; i < len; i++)
            {
            if (activeDocument.layers[i] != act_layer) continue; 

            for (var n = i+1; n < len; n++)
                {
                var d = new ActionDescriptor();
                var r = new ActionReference();
                r.putIdentifier(stringIDToTypeID("layer"), activeDocument.layers[n].id);
                d.putReference(stringIDToTypeID("null"), r);
                d.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("selectionModifier"), stringIDToTypeID("selectionModifierType"), stringIDToTypeID("addToSelection"));
                d.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("makeVisible"), false);
                executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("select"), d, DialogModes.NO);
                }

            break;
            }

        var d = new ActionDescriptor();
        d.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("duplicate"), true);
        executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("mergeLayers"), d, DialogModes.NO);

        if (has_background) last_layer.isBackgroundLayer = true; 
        }
    catch (e) { alert(e); }
    }

[Fat Croissant]

Hi! 

Thank you so much!

Somehow it works; but not always. Sometimes nothing happens.

Intersting...

But thank you very much for your support and help!

[r-bin]

Can you reproduce the issue stably?

Replace line

if (activeDocument.layers[i] != act_layer) continue; 

with

if (activeDocument.layers[i].id != act_layer.id) continue; 

and check.

[Fat Croissant]

Hello r-bin,

sorry for the late answer! I tried, and it's not working in my Photoshop. 

Thank you for supporting 🙂

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

@Fat Croissant – Please mark the replies that solved your issue as "correct answers", thank you.

[Fat Croissant]

@Fat Croissant – Please mark the replies that solved your issue as "correct answers", thank you.

By @Stephen_A_Marsh

Hi Stephen; 

Sure! in a moment.

Because now all works fine; but the new layer has "(reduziert)" in its layername. Can I turn this somehow off?!

Thank you so much for your help r-bin!