Shortcut-key to set color label on one or multiple layers at once

Question

Hello, does anyone have a way to create a shortcut key for setting a color label on one or multiple layers at once?

Stephen Marsh · Accepted Answer

You can only have the hard-coded colours, not custom colours.

/*
Prior to version 2024: "none","red","orange","yellowColor","grain","blue","violet","gray" 
New in version 2024: "magenta", "seafoam", "indigo", "fuchsia"
Adding an unsupported name is possible to return "black".
Install this script in the Application folder Presets/Scripts and restart Photoshop.
Assign a custom keyboard shortcut via Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > File > Scripts
*/

// Set the label color
setLayerLabelCol("grain");

function setLayerLabelCol(labelCol) {
    var c2t = function (s) {
        return app.charIDToTypeID(s);
    };
    var s2t = function (s) {
        return app.stringIDToTypeID(s);
    };
    var descriptor = new ActionDescriptor();
    var descriptor2 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var reference = new ActionReference();
    reference.putEnumerated(s2t("layer"), s2t("ordinal"), s2t("targetEnum"));
    descriptor.putReference(c2t("null"), reference);
    descriptor2.putEnumerated(s2t("color"), s2t("color"), s2t(labelCol));
    descriptor.putObject(s2t("to"), s2t("layer"), descriptor2);
    executeAction(s2t("set"), descriptor, DialogModes.NO);
}

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

Stephen Marsh · Answer

@Omineus – This can be scripted and a custom keyboard shortcut applied to the script. Even an action could do it if you were happy with an F-key shortcut.

As there are 11-12 possible colours, this could be a bit convoluted with separate scripts for each colour.

Another option would be to take the extra effort to add a GUI to pick the colour and then one would only need a single script (but would this really be any better than Myra's suggestion of using the standard native feature?).

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