! would add is a check of the background color and set it to white if needed. ... View more

Two things to keep in mind. The position property accepts UnitValue objects. You can use number objects be then it will default to whatever the current ruler unit is set to in the GUI. So you should either use UnitValues or set the ruler unit before changing theposition. app.activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem.position = [UnitValue(10,'px'),UnitValue(20,'px')]; The second thing to keep in mind it there are two types of text in Photoshop. PointText and ParagraphText. With paragraphText the position is determined from the top left corner of the bounding box. With pointText the position is determined from either the start of the text, the center of the text, or the end of the text depending on the justification property. So pointText can be the hardest to position using the position property if the text is centered or has right justification. ... View more

I assume you mean you are trying to move the text with a script. There is two ways you can move type. One way is with the textItem properties. The other way it with the artLayer.translate(). Which way are you trying to use? ... View more

You want to change a layer's opacity. You do that by changing the layer's opacity property. Your code tries to change a selection property. Because selection does not have an opacity property what that line really does is create a new property for selection and sets it to 17. There is no error but it doesn't do what you want. If you are just starting you may want to look at the Photoshop JavaScript Reference for you version of Photoshop. It lists the object, properties, and methods for Photoshop. ... View more

You can reference pahs by name - app.activedocument.pathItems.getByName('my path'); You can reference by index( the order in the paths panel ) - app.activedocument.pathItems[2]; The code I posted selected the shape layer because that is the only way to access the path in the vector mask. If you set the doc up so that everything is in normal paths then you don't need to loop the layers. You loop the paths. If you want to loop the paths change part that outputs the layer name to output the pathItmem name. Move the line dataStream = dataStream+'\r'; to outside the loop. You have in inside so it is putting a line break between each path point ... View more

The opacity of a layer is changed by setting the layer object's opacity property app.activeDocument.activeLayer.opacity = 50; You can only set the opacity one layer at a time so if you want to change several layers you will need to change them one at a time. You do not have to have a function or other control structures like a loop but depending on what else you want to do or coding style them could be helpful. ... View more

There is very little scripting support for working with slices. I have not seen a script that does that and I do not think it is possible to create one. ... View more

In the layer loop add a line to output the layer name dataStream = dataStream+doc.activeLayer.name+'\r'; At the end of the path loop add a line for the break after the point data dataStream = dataStream+'\r'; And sorry I missed you wanted the output in pixels. Because you said you set up the doc to have 1cm per pixel I thought you would have had the ruler set to cm and would want the values in cm ... View more

I haven't done much with text styles but I think you need to use Action Manager. As I understand the text style overrides the default text settings and you need Action Manger to get the paragraph style range and settings. ... View more

You may be able to get the info you want from the text layer itself but I don't think it is possible to get the info from the panel. ... View more

This is an example of how to export the path points of the shape layer to a tab separated value text file. var dataFile = new File('~/desktop/exportData.txt'); var doc = app.activeDocument; doc.activeLayer = doc.artLayers.getByName('Rectangle 1'); var pathItem = doc.pathItems[doc.pathItems.length-1]; var dataStream = ""; for(var subPathIndex = 0;subPathIndex<pathItem.subPathItems.length;subPathIndex++){     for(var pointIndex = 0;pointIndex<pathItem.subPathItems[subPathIndex].pathPoints.length;pointIndex++){         dataStream = dataStream+pathItem.subPathItems[subPathIndex].pathPoints[pointIndex].anchor+'\t';     } } dataFile.open('w'); dataFile.write(dataStream); dataFile.close(); ... View more

Yes app.system() will not return the output of the comand string. For something like this you could use a DOS redirect to file to save the output as a file the have the script read the file. app.system() is asynchronous so timing between the system call and reading the file will be a problem. And it is not supported on all version of Photoshop. ... View more

I agree that the op could have supplied more details about what the script should be but the script posted doesn't meet all the requirements of the screenshot. So that may be why it is not marked as correct. That is the activeLayer is not one of the overlay layerSets. The script below doesn't require a overlaySet be active. It does require the layer structure in the screenshot. var overlaySet = app.activeDocument.layerSets.getByName('Overlay Icon').layerSets.getByName('overlayicon'); for( var setIndex = 0;setIndex<overlaySet.layerSets.length;setIndex++){     if(overlaySet.layerSets[setIndex].visible){         if(setIndex == overlaySet.layerSets.length-1){             overlaySet.layerSets[setIndex].visible = false;             overlaySet.layerSets[0].visible = true;         }else{             overlaySet.layerSets[setIndex].visible = false;             overlaySet.layerSets[setIndex+1].visible = true;         }         break;    } } ... View more

I think the best way to ignore an extension is to pass getFiles a custom function. What extension do you want to ignore? ".stitchinfo"? function ignoreMe( f ){    return f.name.match(/\.(stitchinfo)$/i) == null; } Folder("~/desktop").getFiles(ignoreMe); ... View more

You could use action manager to do the ctrl-n ( new doc from clipboard ) part. function newDocFromClipboard() {     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();         var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();         desc1.putString( stringIDToTypeID('preset'), "Clipboard" );     desc.putObject( charIDToTypeID('Nw  '), charIDToTypeID('Dcmn'), desc1 );     executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Mk  '), desc, DialogModes.NO ); }; app.activeDocument.selection.selectAll(); app.activeDocument.selection.copy(true); // want to grab all visible layers to clipboard newDocFromClipboard(); var myNewDoc = app.activeDocument; myNewDoc.paste(); if(myNewDoc.layers.length>1) myNewDoc.layers[1].remove(); ... View more

I don't think this fixes everything but it seems to process all the files without error if(curFiles.length>0){// only needs to run if there were image files to process     newLayer.remove();// can't remove this layer unless other layers were added in the loop above     newDoc.revealAll();// no need to revealAl if no layers were added } I think the problem was when there are no image files to process it throws the error because it is tries to remove the only layer in the doc. ... View more

I don't see how curFiles could have anything but jepg files. You are only adding to the array after checking that the object is a File and the name ends with .jpg. Even if curFiles was a folder object you should get a different error message. When I try to run this I get an error at newLayer.remove(); I think that is because the mergeVisibleLayers() call make newLayer an invalid object. i.e. that layer no longer exists in the document, it was merged. ... View more

I missed that you want to process subfolders. So you can either call getFiles without an argument or write a custom function that will only return folders and jpeg files. I don't know why you are getting that strange error message. In the second code you posted there is a mis-placed ) but that gives a dffferent erro So now I am not sure what you mean by 'I want to check if there are any jpg's in folder'. Do you mean you only want to push folders that also contain jpeg files? ... View more

The getFiles method accepts a regular expression as an argument. If you use it all you need to check the the returned array's length to make sure there were jpg file in the folder. var curhit = sourceFolder.getFiles(/.jpg$/i); ... View more

Seems you are still having problems posting code, your last line is incomplete. Try alert(app.documents.length); if( app.documents.length > 3 ){     app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;     var doc1=app.documents[0];    var doc2=app.documents[1];    var doc3=app.documents[2];    var doc4=app.documents[3]; }else{     alert("you don't have enough documents open!"); } ... View more

I assumed the missing s was a typo in the post not the script itself. Otherwise the error message would have been 'undefined is not an object'. To get the 'no such element' message you need to try to access a document in the collection that doesn't exists. And if the first element doesn't exists that means there are no documents open. ... View more

For that line to work in Photoshop there has to be an open document. And from the error message I would bet there isn't. ... View more

I don't think there is a short easy way to explain how to work with Action Manager( other than mining the scriptlistener log ). And there isn't much offical documentaion on using Action Manager. Here is how to get the number of frames and the framerate. function GetFrameCount(){     var ref = new ActionReference();      ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( 'Prpr' ), stringIDToTypeID( "frameCount" ) );      ref.putClass( stringIDToTypeID( "timeline" ) );      var desc = new ActionDescriptor();      desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID( 'null' ), ref );      var resultDesc = executeAction( charIDToTypeID( 'getd' ), desc, DialogModes.NO );           return resultDesc.getInteger( stringIDToTypeID( "frameCount" ) ); }; function GetFrameRate(){     var ref = new ActionReference();      ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( 'Prpr' ), stringIDToTypeID("documentTimelineSettings") );       ref.putClass( stringIDToTypeID( "timeline" ) );      var desc = new ActionDescriptor();      desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID( 'null' ), ref );      var resultDesc = executeAction( charIDToTypeID( 'getd' ), desc, DialogModes.NO );      return resultDesc.getDouble( stringIDToTypeID('frameRate') ); }; ... View more

It's more like here and there are the same place when you self reference the layer. It's always a good idea to watch out for dupe layernames but as you need a layer object you don't have to reference by name. The code I posted doesn't care about names. Nor would using the suggestion of getting activeLayer index before the add as csuebele suggested. ... View more

Wherever you go, there you are. Using the layer you want to move as the argument really says 'move  to the layer below yourself''. If you want it to move in relation to another layer you need to use that layer as the argument. ... View more