Oh @jane-e I apologize!   I forget muscle memory makes me go a bit too fast. Yes, please let me explain. So, for example I have specific Clone Stamp presets  in this order: - "Hard Round" 70px - Hardness 100% - Opacity 100% - Flow 100% - "Soft Round" 70px - Hardness 0% - Opacity 100% - Flow 100% - "Softer Build Up" 70px - Hardness 0% - Opacity 100% - Flow 10% -  "Soft Chaos" 160px - Hardness 30% - Opacity 100% - Flow 25% The brushes are a mirror image of these.  That way instead of hitting keyboard shortcuts to bring up the clone stamp/brush tools and number keys+shift/alt to change the flow and opacity and manually clicking and dragging on the hardness slider.....I can just right click my pen, click the exact tool and keep painting on my tablet. The problem I'm having is ...if i click on any tool presets that are NOT the brush tool...Photoshop will automatically force itself back to a Brush Tool preset....stopping me from choosing my desired Clone Stamp with saved settings.  I tried to create new brush presets with the Blur Tool, History Brush, etc besides recreating the Clone Stamp presets from scratch... I've tried everything from full removing all Adobe products from my machine starting fresh, resetting tools, etc etc.  Nothing seems to work.  Please let me know if that all makes sense. Definitely a cool/stressful job. Any repetative tasks I have mapped to my tablet's pen buttons, three devices called Stream Decks where I can assign hundreds of actions / keyboard shortcuts / scripts at a press of a button and even 2 USB foot pedals so I can Save with my left foot and open/run a file prep action with my right foot without moving my fingers from the keyboard/tablet.  I realize that sounds a little crazy but the general sentiment in the Entertainment industry is "we needed it 3 hours ago."  🙂 (there's most of my Stream Deck buttons, though they have nested folders so you can make as many shortcuts as you want.  It was taking me 7 taps to go back a few menus tochange Spotify playlists/podcasts so I mapped the buttons to the smaller deck at the bottom to be able to change them with my pinky without leaving all the Photoshop buttons above.) ... View more

Hi @jane-e , thanks so much for replying. That is correct and by design. The 4 brushes on the left are Clone Stamp tool presets with specific sizes, shapes, opacities and flows.  The same goes for the 5 brushes on the right.    My workflow, as I've had it for years now, was to press a button on my pen (which is a right click to bring up the Brush Preset menu) and be able to quickly switch between different specifically created clone stamps and brushes without having to go back and change any settings manually.   Not having the specifc clone stamp attributes right as I need it slows the process down considerably.   I realize this might sound excessive but I retouch images for large live events (e.g. the Oscars last night). The turnaround time to retouch an entire image will sometimes range from 3 to 5 minutes total before it gets published so shaving off every second in the workflow counts.  If you think of anything else, please let me know...and thank you again!   ... View more

Appreciate you attempting it!  I don't know the first thing about scripting or I'd try to hop in and help.  ... View more

That's incredible...especially being able to execute .jsx snippets. Looking forward to finding out how far you can push it. Thanks for introducing me to it.   ... View more

Off the top of your head, do you have any suggestions in terms of use cases?  I'm scouring that message board right now...hadn't heard of XMBC until you. Thanks in advance. 🙂 ... View more

An even quicker response when switching between toggle states. Thanks for this! ... View more

To be completely honest, I hadn't even realized you could assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts since I've used them so little.  Good to know, just got rid of the action and directly used the shortcut instead.    The Stream Deck was a game changer for me.  32 LCD button macro device. You can fill each button with text, pre-made graphics, or graphics you make yourself.  You can also nest folders so there's an infinite amount of 32 button pages you can make. It'll also let you access F13-F24 so you can expand on PS's number of shortcuts possible. Here's my main photoshop page (you can see I just added Toggle Align and Switch Sample Mode bottom right.):     You can integrate it with the Deck's multi-actions and come up with some tricky things. For example, when I want to send a client a first pass I'll:   Save my current document, duplicate the doc so there's no chance of me saving over it, while in that duplicate dialogue, append "_PJZEDIT_v001" to the end, change the colorspace to sRGB, flatten again just to be sure, Save As, navigate to the Desktop, create a folder called v001, and then save it there as a JPG at 12 max quality.    For that, I have the Deck pull up a modified version of Russell Brown's Image Processor Pro script, put in a few 1000ms delays so PS doesn't trip over its own feet and does all the steps in order, have it manually type out the name of a saved .XML file (which has the name change, the file type, and place I want it saved to in it), and then hit Return twice.  So, all of 9 or 10 steps above become a one-button press.      Might be overkill but I enjoy finding ways to make 3 to 25-step processes into a one-button press.  Nerd stuff. 🙂   Now that you and @c.pfaffenbichler have shown me how useful scripts are...I"m going to have to pick up Javascript and start digging deeper.   Thanks again for your help today! ... View more

Winner winner chicken dinner!    This did it. I'm not sure what differed from the original (went back and tried and it still doesn't work). But the above version instantly worked...was able to record it into an Action and then turn it into a one-button press on my Stream Deck.    Thank you so much for your work and all your help. Beyond appreciated. 🙂  ... View more

Gave it a try in the Aligned True State:   And then tried again in the Aligned False State: ... View more

Regardless of what the script alert says, the Clone Stamp is only responding to whether the state is active or inactive in the Options Bar.  So still seems like PS is ignoring the script's intent.  ... View more

  I get "align is true" when I run it initially. And "align is false" if I run it again.    The actual Aligned state doesn't change from whatever it is currently on though.  ... View more

The Switch Sample Mode script works great and actually does switch between Current, Current & Blow and All Layers for me.  (again, I love it so thanks for the great find).    Tried the Aligned toggle script again with Beta. Clone Stamp was selected both times. Also tried starting with Aligned checked and also Aligned unchecked.  Still not working.   I reset Prefs in both 23.3.1 and Beta 23.4.0 but still no change, unfortunately.    Well, thank you for your help...very much appreciate all the feedback.  ... View more

Hmm...no error message. I've run it via File > Scripts inside of Photoshop and I ran it straight from the desktop...both ways, nothing changes at all.   The save state of the document changes (I can see the * appear in the Document tab) but that's about it.  Thoughts? ... View more

This is giving me hope!  Right off the bat, the above script isn't working but this is probably user error...I know nothing of scripting outside of poking around in a .JSX file and getting it to the proper directory.  Is the snippet you posted above missing a function or anything to run it / end it?    Decided to do a few tests and went down a rabbit hole of the author mentioned inside the script. I was able to use his Switch Sample Mode script successfully and to great effect. (and so excited I found this through you, so thank you!)   Appreciate your time and patience.  ... View more

Having the same problem...can't access onOne, NIK, or Topaz suites anymore.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance. ... View more