yes,. I have that installed. The mixer function is fine, but it won't sample color under the cursor- it just finds white. Oh well. Time to throw in the towel.  Thanks for your help! Much appreciated my friend. Perhaps someone will chime in later on and find a solution ... View more

looks like it is indeed sampling white instead of the color under the curor. I inserted an 'alert' after the pixCol.rgb.hexValue= psEX.getXYcolour(); line and it returns "ffffff" #target Photoshop  var SCRIPTS_FOLDER =  decodeURI(app.path + '/' + localize('$$$/ScriptingSupport/InstalledScripts=Presets/Scripts'));   var libPath =SCRIPTS_FOLDER + "/BasicExternalObject.dll";  var  psEX = new ExternalObject("lib:" + libPath);  //$.writeln("Original foreground colour = " + app.foregroundColor.rgb.hexValue);  pixCol = new SolidColor;  pixCol.rgb.hexValue= psEX.getXYcolour();  //$.writeln("Pixel colour  = " + pixCol.rgb.hexValue);  alert (pixCol.rgb.hexValue) var alph = 0.15;  MixRGB(alph,pixCol);  //$.writeln("Forground colour now = " +app.foregroundColor.rgb.hexValue);  psEX.unload();    function MixRGB(alph,pixCol){  var frg = new SolidColor;  var fr = app.foregroundColor.rgb.red;  var fg = app.foregroundColor.rgb.green;  var fb = app.foregroundColor.rgb.blue;  frg.rgb.red =Math.floor(alph * fr + (1-alph) * pixCol.rgb.red);  frg.rgb.green=Math.floor(alph * fg + (1-alph)  * pixCol.rgb.green);  frg.rgb.blue=Math.floor(alph * fb + (1-alph) * pixCol.rgb.blue );  app.foregroundColor= frg;  };  ... View more

it still samples towards white, although it does it in larger chunks (more than 15% each time) The mix function looks fine. I'm wondering - could the problem be where it samples the color under the cursor? Maybe it just keeps sampling White instead of the color that is actually there. And this is why the color heads towards ffffff? ... View more

;SPLIT COLOR FUNCTION============================== ;color MUST be in RGB form ;this function splits the color into its Red, Green, and Blue parts SplitRGBColor(RGBColor, ByRef Red, ByRef Green, ByRef Blue) {     Red := RGBColor >> 16 & 0xFF     Green := RGBColor >> 8 & 0xFF     Blue := RGBColor & 0xFF } return ;MIX FUNCTION============================================ MixRGB(alph,R,G,B,RR,GG,BB,ByRef ORed,ByRef OGrn,ByRef OBlu) { ORed:=Floor(alph*RR+(1-alph)*R) OGrn:=Floor(alph*GG+(1-alph)*G) OBlu:=Floor(alph*BB+(1-alph)*B) } return ;========================================================= thanks again SuperMerlin, I've spent the past 3 or so days working on the autohotkey version of the code and *finally* managed to get it working. The funny thing is, the functions in this code are very similar to the functions you used - I don't get why it isn't working. It looks like your code should indeed be moving the foreground color towards the color under the cursor, instead of adding the R,G and B values until they each read reach pure white (hex code ffffff, or RGB  255). Maybe javascript operates differently? But again, your help is much appreciated.  Maybe down the line a solution to your code (which is already so close) will be discovered. Here's the working functions (above) in the autohotkey code to show just how close your code and the .ahk code is: ... View more

or am I doing something wrong?  I tried the first script only. Not the second one. Do I need to combine them somehow? ... View more

wow. I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to look at this! Yes, it is doing something - but the problem is, when I run the script, the foreground color is moving towards 100% white instead of moving towards the color under the cursor. So for example, if the foreground color is Blue, and the color under the cursor is Yellow, then the foreground color should move towards the Yellow (15% each time you run the script). Right now, the foreground color is only moving towards White. But yes, it is near - it looks to be possible. Again, I am eternally greatful for your time here. I wish I could do something in return Do you think it's possible to make it work? ... View more

Autohotkey indeed gets the color at the cursor position, but what format does that color need to be in? For example, it could be any of the following: 0xC5504B (this is hex) C5504B (this is hex) 197 80 75 (this is RGB) 1978075 (this is RGB) the fgc variable in the script represents the foreground color in Photoshop ( on line 08), but I can't figure out what format it has to be in (any of the above, perhaps?) ... View more

RButton:: ; sample under cursor color MouseGetPos X, Y PixelGetColor sample, %X%, %Y%, RGB SplitRGBColor(sample,R,G,B) ; convert sample to RGB ; get ps foreground color appRef := ComObjActive("Photoshop.Application") fgc :=  appRef.ForegroundColor.rgb ;mix with sampled color MixRGB(0.15,fgc.Red,fgc.Green,fgc.Blue,R,G,B,ORed,OGrn,OBlu) ; set ps foreground to mixed color solidColorRef := ComObjCreate("Photoshop.SolidColor") solidColorRef.rgb.red := ORed solidColorRef.rgb.green := Ogrn solidColorRef.rgb.blue := OBlu appRef.ForegroundColor := solidColorRef Return SplitRGBColor(RGBColor, ByRef Red, ByRef Green, ByRef Blue) {   Red := RGBColor >> 16 & 0xFF   Green := RGBColor >> 8 & 0xFF   Blue := RGBColor & 0xFF } MixRGB(alph,R,G,B,RR,GG,BB,ByRef ORed,ByRef OGrn,ByRef OBlu) { ORed:=Floor(alph*RR+(1-alph)*R) OGrn:=Floor(alph*GG+(1-alph)*G) OBlu:=Floor(alph*BB+(1-alph)*B) } Thank you SuperMerlin. I have some code above from a different language (AutoHotKey) and what this script does is that it interacts with Photoshop using COM. The problem is, the script works when just one version of Photoshop is installed (in my case, CC2014), but when a second version is installed (in addition to CC2014), such as CC2018, the script crashes - I'm guessing it can't decide which version it's supposed to interact with (just a guess on my part). So if I remove CC2018, it still crashes. I'm positive it's all to do with the COM interaction (which I know very little about unfortunately). So now, the script no longer works, but it's probably the single most important bit of code I use on a daily basis and I can't get it going anymore. Here's what it does: When the hotkey is pressed (let's say the right mouse button for example), it samples the color currently under the cursor in Photoshop and then mixes 15% of this color with Photoshop's foreground color. So for example, if the color under the cursor is red, and the foreground color is blue, then 15% of that red is mixed into the foreground color. In other words, each time the right button is pressed ontop of the red color, the blue foreground color will move towards the red color, until it eventually reaches the full red (so long as the right button is pressed enough times). Again, each button press moves 15% towards the red. I hope it's not too confusing, but this is some code that would be very beneficial to so many users here. Not to confuse things further, but if you go into the Gradient Tool and then into the Gradient Editor, you can have one end of the gradient color be Red, and the other end be Blue. Just imagine that each time you press the Right Button on the red color (inside a Photoshop document of course, not in the gradient editor), the foreground color is slowly moving along that gradient from the blue end to the red end. I'm trying to find a way to alter the code so it doesn't use COM. I'm getting close, but am running into obstacles. I'd like to post the code here, even though it isn't .jsx, but perhaps somebody could figure this out or maybe find a way to alter it so it's in full javascript. Again, the script is priceless and I'm certain that all Photoshop painters would be ecstatic to have this. Here is the code, and I'm just hoping that maybe it could start something or jog someone's creativity. The actual link that the code is from is found here: https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=4984 ... View more

thanks Chuck... for whatever reason, the numbers weren't there, but I clicked something and they're there now - no idea what I did lol. The format of these forums don't appear to be standard so I find them somewhat confusing to navigate. ... View more

if you downloaded your brushes as .abr files, then they are still somewhere on your hard drive. Then, if you loaded these brushes one-by-one into your existing brush set, but failed to save the updated brush set before closing Photoshop, then you have lost those brushes and will need to re-load them all in. It sounds like you right-clicked in your document, selected 'Load Brush', which then added the new brushes to your existing brushes, but you forgot to save them after loading the new ones in.  I've done this many times when using Tool Presets. Tip- if loading them brush-by-brush into your existing set, make sure you save the set before exiting PS. ... View more

thanks - I have a subscription. What does perpetual mean? ... View more

dang. Oh well. I'm pretty sure it can be done with scripting... I'll try it. So in other words, every time you hold down ALT, it will temporarily change the above layer's opacity to 100% while it samples a color- and then when you let go of ALT, it will return the top layer's opacity to 25% and you can begin painting again on the layer below, having successfully sampled a color from the layer above at full opacity. The reason for this is fast workflow. Selecting the layer above, changing its opacity, then re-selecting the layer below to paint is a workflow kill, in the worst way. It's not practical. I'll report back if I can find a way to do this. ... View more

thanks. I'm using the top layer (layer with the original photograph) as the original sample reference. I want to drop the opacity to 25%, so it can be used as a "tracing paper". Then with the new layer underneath, I'll sketch/paint(trace) the image. I want to sample the true colors from the photo on the layer above, but not at the 25% opacity it is displaying. I need to sample the color from that layer at its *true* 100% opacity color. I know the mixer brush can do this. So load the photo on the top layer, then drop it to 25% opacity. Next, create a blank layer under it. Next, choose the mixer brush tool and choose a brush to your liking, and make sure "sample all layers" is turned on. Make sure to turn OFF the "load" icon in the mixer brush well, and to turn ON the "Clean" icon in the mixer brush well. Now, on the blank layer underneath, begin painting. It will sample the colors from the photo layer ontop, and it does so as if the top layer was at 100% opacity even though it's at 25% This is what I'm looking to do - but with the brush tool instead of the mixer tool. ... View more

Thank you my friend. No, it's set to "all layers". The problem is that the photograph layer on top is at 25% opacity, so it samples the color at 25% opacity- which ends up being a de-saturated, dull color. I was hoping to find a way to sample the *true* color from that layer, regardless of its opacity level, without having to manually change its opacity to 100%, sample the color, then change the opacity back to 25%. ... View more

very cool. It's a little easier to select a tool preset from your list than from the standard interface. Especially with hundreds of presets- all that scrolling up and down through the list just trying to find 2 or 3 common presets is a workflow killer. There's always the 'recent tool presets' list, but doesn't that get erased when you re-start Photoshop.. and, if you go through, say 15 presets or so then that list becomes overwritten from what I remember. Also, there's the preset manager where you can shuffle/re-order your most common tools to the bottom of the .tpl panel, but again that just seems like a hassle- it's not all that user-friendly. You could always use scriptlistener to record the selecting of your tool preset, then save that script file, and assign it to a keyboard shortcut- that works. And then you can use 3rd party software (or even javascripting) to create a little on-screen button which, when clicked on,  will run that particular script file to select your tool preset. Software like AutoHotKey and PowerPro do just that. Being able to type in the name of the preset at the top of your list and it automatically selects the preset is an excellent feature - I'll stay tuned should you continue to work on it ... View more

both of your guys' scripts work - awesome. I'll look into a way to see if it helps to make it easier to select tool presets from a large list ... View more

man, this would be so useful.. but when I run the script nothing happens. What should happen when you run it? I'm using CC2014.2.2 in case it matters.. ... View more

isn't that just the same as "save tool presets", unless there's some other kind of data being written to the file? I'd like to know if there's a way to get a list as well, it could open up a few doors for allowing easier selection of tool presets, especially when you're working with hundreds of them ... View more

wow, thanks - I had no idea it was that easy. How about if the 'concrete' layer was indeed inside a group - does it make things more complicated? ... View more

ps-scripts was a goldmine of code... it's all gone? If so, that would be a catastrophe.. surely it must be backed up somewhere? ... View more

That part I'm not sure about. All I can say is that the script I posted will create a new, empty layer above the active layer and *not* send it to the top of the stack. Try running the snippet I posted as is and test it to see if the new layer is created above the active layer. Hopefully it can help you move things along, but someone more knowledgeable might be able to help out with where exactly in your code you need to place it ... View more

is this what you're looking for: // ======================================================= var idMk = charIDToTypeID( "Mk  " );     var desc2805 = new ActionDescriptor();     var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );         var ref775 = new ActionReference();         var idLyr = charIDToTypeID( "Lyr " );         ref775.putClass( idLyr );     desc2805.putReference( idnull, ref775 ); executeAction( idMk, desc2805, DialogModes.NO ); ... View more