I have this script that someone shared with me a while ago to add guides to a selection, but when working with artboards, it creates document guides, not artboard guides. Is it possible to change that?   // Add guides to selection.jsx //@target Photoshop if (app.documents.length) { // Get doc. var doc = app.activeDocument; if (doc.selection) { // Get bounds of selection. var bounds = doc.selection.bounds; doc.selection.deselect(); // Add guides to match bounds of selection. doc.guides.add(Direction.VERTICAL, bounds[0]); doc.guides.add(Direction.HORIZONTAL, bounds[1]); doc.guides.add(Direction.VERTICAL, bounds[2]); doc.guides.add(Direction.HORIZONTAL, bounds[3]); } else { alert("Make a selection"); } } else { alert("Open a document"); } ... View more

This is something I also struggled with in Photoshop for years. Can't we just crop a single image that we have in our document? Using the layer mask is not ideal, because if I then want to resize the image, it includes the space taken by the mask (unless I'm missing something?) Yes, I can select, invert, delete. But why so many steps? Also, if the image goes beyond the document's borders, it only deletes what's visible. What I usually do now is I select, create a new layer only with that selection, delete the layer underneath it. Again, why so many steps for something that could be achieved with a single tool or shortcut?   Why is it that Adobe hasn't included a tool or shortcut just for this? Any idea? This seems to be such a basic thing a lot of us use, that's why I can't really wrap my head around why it isn't possible. ... View more

Using Actions doesn't help and I'm not familiar with scripts. So basically I have to resize 300 layers to 3000px using the largest size (width or height, whatever is bigger).   I saw scripts to resize images (not layers), so that won't do the job. I saw other solutions for very particular scenarios, but not what I'm looking for either, and since I'm familiar with scripting, I won't be able to adjust it to my needs.   Any chance that someone can help me with this? I would really appreciate it, as this would save me so much time for this very tedious task and I need to deliver this asap   EDIT: I found the script that does this, but it needs a subtle change as described by the script's author @Stephen Marsh (thank you for your contribution, Stephen). Use the following script (the original script used "Math.max" and I changed it to "Math.min" to fit the largest dimension to the canvas):         // https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1968642 // https://forums.adobe.com/message/8022190#8022190 #target photoshop var oldPref = app.preferences.rulerUnits app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS; var doc = activeDocument; var iLayer = doc.activeLayer; doc.activeLayer = iLayer; var scale = Math.min(doc.width/(iLayer.bounds[2]-iLayer.bounds[0]),doc.height/(iLayer.bounds[3]-iLayer.bounds[1])); // Optionally change Math.max to Math.min to fit canvas short side iLayer.resize (scale*100,scale*100); iLayer.translate(doc.width/2-(iLayer.bounds[0]+iLayer.bounds[2])/2,doc.height/2-(iLayer.bounds[1]+iLayer.bounds[3])/2); app.preferences.rulerUnits = oldPref;     To make it clear what the Math.max and Math.min do:       ... View more

I never used snapshots before, but today I was doing some research and it seems like a great feature, but the issue is that it doesn't save them with the file. If the idea of a snapshot is that we can compare multiple versions, it would make sense that we could come back a few hours/days/weeks/months/years later and maybe make some changes, after not looking at it for a while (fresh perspective).   Some could argue that this approach would require too much memory, the file size would increase, etc, but let's be honest: would you rather have that "huge" file, but being able to have access to early edits or instead always live on the "edge", because your computer could freeze or Photoshop suddenly quits, etc, and you lose all the alternatives that took you so much time to create? Sure, you can create a new document based on a snapshot, but you will end up with the same space being used on your drive, the only difference is that it won't be on a single file, but now you're jumping around documents/tabs. To me, this is not a good workflow. Just my personal taste anyway.   So my workaround, which creates an alternative to snapshots, but allows us to save them as "snapshots" is to create a smart object as soon we create a new document (snapshot #1), then work on that smart object as if it was our main document. Once we want to take a snapshot, we go to the main document, right click the smart object and choose "New Smart Object Via Copy" (snapshot #2). Open that smart object (snapshot #2) and work on it. When we want to compare different snapshots, we just go to the main document and while holding ALT, we make each snapshot visible, which pretty much mimics the same behavior as the normal snapshot feature.   This approach also has another advantage: you can update the current snapshot, instead of creating a new one (if you don't want to) with slightly different modifications, so again, you have the behavior of the default snapshots (you can create a new one), or you can simply make the changes and save that single "snapshot" (Smart Object).   This is just my workaround, but I'm happy to know if there are any disadvantages to this, other than the file size and the memory it takes, of course. Let me know your thoughts ... View more