Some times when I work in Adjustment Curve/levels/ or other tools, I dont' go to adjustment layer, because may be not sure for result, but when is good, I want to save this as adjustment layer from any adjustment windows. Not sure I'm clear, but I think is not so difficult put one new button in any adjustment tool windows, like "save as adjustment layer".
If I understood you correctly, then this script can solve the problem: after activation, it remembers the result of each application of curves or levels.If you hold down the Shift key when creating the corresponding adjustment layer, it automatically substitutes the last saved settings.Without pressing Shift, the adjustment layer will be created with the default settings.
/*
<javascriptresource>
<name>Adjustments tracking</name>
</javascriptresource>
*/
#target photoshop
var UUID = '6fdba335-bf6d-4167-8872-8920758ad32b',
s2t = stringIDToTypeID,
t2s = typeIDToStringID,
cfg = new Config();
try {
var evt = arguments[1];
if (evt == s2t('curves') || evt == s2t('levels')) {
cfg.putScriptSettings(arguments[0], evt, cfg.getScriptSettings());
} else {
if (ScriptUI.environment.keyboardState.shiftKey) {
(r = new ActionReference()).putProperty(s2t('property'), p = s2t('adjustment'));
r.putEnumerated(s2t('layer'), s2t('ordinal'), s2t('targetEnum'));
var kind = executeActionGet(r).getList(p).getObjectType(0);
var adjustment = cfg.getScriptSettings(kind)
if (adjustment.count && adjustment.hasKey(s2t('adjustment'))) {
(r = new ActionReference()).putEnumerated(s2t("adjustmentLayer"), s2t("ordinal"), s2t("targetEnum"));
(d = new ActionDescriptor()).putReference(s2t("null"), r);
(d1 = new ActionDescriptor()).putEnumerated(s2t("presetKind"), s2t("presetKindType"), s2t('presetKindCustom'));
d1.putList(s2t("adjustment"), adjustment.getList(s2t('adjustment')))
d.putObject(s2t("to"), kind, d1);
executeAction(s2t("set"), d, DialogModes.NO);
}
}
}
} catch (e) {}
if (!evt) {
dialogWindow();
}
function dialogWindow() {
var w = new Window("dialog {text: 'Adjustments tracking',alignChildren:['fill','top']}"),
bnNotifier = w.add("button {text: 'Enable adjustments tracking'}"),
g = w.add("group {alignChildren:['center', 'center']}"),
bnOk = g.add("button {text:'Ok'}", undefined, undefined, { name: "ok" }),
evt = new Events();
bnNotifier.onClick = function () {
if (evt.checkEvents()) evt.removeEvents() else evt.addEvents()
setEnabledButtonValue()
}
w.onShow = function () {
setEnabledButtonValue()
}
function setEnabledButtonValue() {
var enabled = evt.checkEvents()
bnNotifier.text = enabled ? 'Disable adjustments tracking' : 'Enable adjustments tracking'
bnNotifier.graphics.foregroundColor = enabled ? bnNotifier.graphics.newPen(bnNotifier.graphics.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1, 0, 0, 1], 1) : bnNotifier.graphics.newPen(bnNotifier.graphics.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [0, 0.8, 0, 1], 1)
}
w.show()
}
function Config() {
this.getScriptSettings = function (kind) {
var d = new ActionDescriptor();
try { d = getCustomOptions(UUID) } catch (e) { }
if (d.count) {
if (kind) if (d.hasKey(kind)) return d.getObjectValue(kind) else return new ActionDescriptor();
}
return d
}
this.putScriptSettings = function (d, kind, parent) {
parent.putObject(kind, s2t('object'), d)
putCustomOptions(UUID, parent, false);
}
}
function Events() {
var f = File($.fileName);
this.addEvents = function () {
app.notifiersEnabled = true
app.notifiers.add('Crvs', f)
app.notifiers.add('levels', f)
app.notifiers.add('Mk ', f, 'AdjL')
}
this.removeEvents = function () {
for (var i = 0; i < app.notifiers.length; i++) {
var ntf = app.notifiers[i]
if (ntf.eventFile.name == f.name) { ntf.remove(); i--; }
}
}
this.checkEvents = function () {
for (var i = 0; i < app.notifiers.length; i++) {
if (app.notifiers[i].eventFile.name == f.name) return true
}
return false
}
}
This topic is an idea/feature request. End users can only do so much with the tools on offer. The preset is the "standard" approach, outside of scripting.
Of course, the simple answer would be to just work with an adjustment layer from the beginning, then delete it if you don't wish to use it. Your choice of modal adjustment first complicates things, necessitating either preset or script workarounds to try to offer something similar to your feature request.
Thanks Stephen. I work a lot with adjustment, I like shortcuts for it, like Comand+M, +L, +U, Adjustment Layer palette is smaller, yes I can make it bigger, but this not solve problem, I discover PS in 1992 it was PS 2.5., Yes I'm archaic. But those inovation in PS not help me in a lot of cases. sometimes when I work like a machine I need this button in Adjustment dialog is usefull, when I want this. I don'tthink is a big deal make this button. And I think o lot of production/prepress peoples thanks for this.
Alex, I'd offer a script to create a new curves adjustment layer, then you can assign the old modal keyboard shortcut of CMD + M to the script (same for the other legacy adjustments). The best of both worlds! I get it, I too first used Photoshop before it had layers and have chosen to adapt rather than fight against various keyboard shortcut changes over the years.
I understand that this is a little different from what the @Alex Millman wants, but it is worth mentioning the wonderful panel from @Davide_Barranca, Floating Adjustments, which allows you to edit adjustment layers in a modal window
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