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How about if you had the option to duplicate a layer on all artboards at once?
It would be great for the designs.
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There is a script for that:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57050942/duplicate-layers-in-multiple-artboards-photoshop-2019
I made a quick edit to the script to use the active layer as the original script assumed a single layer only... I have not put it through exhaustive testing so I'm not sure if my hack is bullet-proof or not:
var doc = app.activeDocument;
// assumes your bottom most artboard in the layer tree contains the layer you want to copy from AKA Artboard 1
var artBoardToCopyFrom = doc.layerSets[doc.layerSets.length - 1];
/*
// assumes there is only 1 layer in this artboard that we need to target
var layerToCopy = artBoardToCopyFrom.layers[0];
*/
var layerToCopy = app.activeDocument.activeLayer;
// set that layer as the active layer
doc.activeLayer = layerToCopy;
// select all
doc.selection.selectAll();
// copy the selection
doc.selection.copy();
// loop through each layerSet aka artboard except the last one -- no need to paste an additional copy into the bottom most layerSet
for (var g = 0; g < doc.layerSets.length - 1; g++) {
// set layer 0 in this group as the active layer -- again assumes there is only one layer in each artboard
doc.activeLayer = doc.layerSets[g].artLayers[0];
// select all
doc.selection.selectAll();
// paste into selection aka create new layer and paste with mask
doc.paste(true);
}
Depending on artboard properties and layers in each artboard, layer positioning and layer stack order may or may not be correct.
https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html