Export combination of layers

[chrisa90912733]

Hi all,

At the moment I have a psd setup with two groups and a background layer as so:

What I'm trying to do is run an export that saves a combination of these layers in sequence. e.g. 1st "Icon" + 1st "Colour" + Background then 2nd "Icon" + 1st "Colour" + Background until I have a copy of each icon with each of the available colours. Ideally I would also like the exported file to use the icon and colour names e.g. Hospital-Red.png, etc. The amount of icons and colours will increase over time so I'd need to take this into account also.

Is this something that's possible ?

Many thanks,

Chris

[Kukurykus · Accepted solution]

displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO

function sTT(v) {return stringIDToTypeID(v)}

runMenuItem(sTT('selectAllLayers'));

(ref = new ActionReference()).putEnumerated

(sTT('layer'), sTT('ordinal'), sTT('targetEnum'));

(lst = new ActionList()).putReference(ref);

(dsc = new ActionDescriptor()).putList(sTT('null'), lst)

executeAction(sTT('hide'), dsc)

runMenuItem(sTT('selectNoLayers')), aD = activeDocument

iL = (icn = aD.layers[0]).layers.length, icn.visible = true

cL = ( clr = aD.layers[1]).layers.length, clr.visible = true

for(aHS = aD.activeHistoryState, i = 0; i < iL;) {

     aD.activeHistoryState = aHS, aD.suspendHistory('', '');

     (n1 = (lyr = aD.layers)[0].layers[i++]).visible = true

     for(j = 0; j < cL;) {

          (n2 = (c = lyr[1].layers[j++])).visible = true;

          (sfw = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb()).PNG8 = false

          sfw.transparency = true, sfw.format = SaveDocumentType.PNG

          fle = File(aD.path + '/' + n1.name + '-' + n2.name + '.png')

          aD.exportDocument(fle, ExportType.SAVEFORWEB, sfw)

          c.visible = false

     }

}

aD.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES)

[chrisa90912733]

Thanks, that's great. Would it be possible to add a progress bar as it's hard to tell how far along the process is with a large number of layers.

[Kukurykus]

In CC 2018 change:

for(aHS = aD.activeHistoryState, i = 0; i < iL; i++) {

to:

pb = (win = new Window('palette'))
.add('progressbar'), win.show()
aHS = aD.activeHistoryState
for(i = 0; i < iL; i++) {
     pb.value = (i + 1) / iL * 100; win.update()

As previous answer seems to satisfy you, why don't you mark my solution as correct answer?

[chrisa90912733]

I made the changes but now it misses half of the layers. At the moment I have 296 items in the icons folder and it only exports 592 combinations. It looks like it only processes 1st then 3rd and so on.

displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO  
function sTT(v) {return stringIDToTypeID(v)}  
runMenuItem(sTT('selectAllLayers'));  
(ref = new ActionReference()).putEnumerated  
(sTT('layer'), sTT('ordinal'), sTT('targetEnum'));  
(lst = new ActionList()).putReference(ref);  
(dsc = new ActionDescriptor()).putList(sTT('null'), lst)  
executeAction(sTT('hide'), dsc)  
runMenuItem(sTT('selectNoLayers')), aD = activeDocument  
iL = (icn = aD.layers[0]).layers.length, icn.visible = true  
cL = ( clr = aD.layers[1]).layers.length, clr.visible = true  
pb = (win = new Window('palette'))  
.add('progressbar'), win.show()  
aHS = aD.activeHistoryState  
for(i = 0; i < iL; i++) {  
     pb.value = (i + 1) / iL * 100; win.update() 
     aD.activeHistoryState = aHS, aD.suspendHistory('', '');  
     (n1 = (lyr = aD.layers)[0].layers[i++]).visible = true  
     for(j = 0; j < cL;) {  
          (n2 = (c = lyr[1].layers[j++])).visible = true;  
          (sfw = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb()).PNG8 = false  
          sfw.transparency = true, sfw.format = SaveDocumentType.PNG  
          fle = File(aD.path + '/TEST/' + n1.name + '-' + n2.name + '.png')  
          aD.exportDocument(fle, ExportType.SAVEFORWEB, sfw)  
          c.visible = false  
     }  
}  
aD.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES) 

[Kukurykus]

Change this line:

(n1 = (lyr = aD.layers)[0].layers[i++]).visible = true

to this one:

(n1 = (lyr = aD.layers)[0].layers[i]).visible = true