Scripts

Toggle Layer Visibility

Overview:

• This script toggles visibility of layers with specific prefix

Usage:

• Assign script to a hotkey;
• Defaul prefixes are: hide, cont and prefixes of Perpsective Tools: perspective and parallel;

Advanced:

• Layers with color labes will be ignored: that’s useful when you have several different versions of a layer you want to toggle. If you don’t want labels to be ignored, change a line ignoreColorLabels = false; to ignoreColorLabels = true; in the toggle_layer_visibility.jsx file;
• To change the prefix, add more prefixes or remove some, edit the toggle_layer_visibility.jsx found in Scripts fodler of your Photoshop;
• It’s possible to have several copies of the script with different prefixes, just make a copy of the toggle_layer_visibility.jsx and edit <name> and prefixes fields of a copy;

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Toggle Active Layers

Overview:

• This script toggles visibility of selected layers.

  • This is useful to switch between two versions of a layer/groups of layers;
  • To check how layers or selected adjustment layers are affecting the lower layers;

Usage:

• Assign script to a hotkey;

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Toggle Channel Visibility

Overview:

• This script toggles visibility of channels with specific prefix.

Usage:

• Assign script to a hotkey;
• Defaul prefixes are: hide and cont;

Advanced:

• Having a channel is useful if working with several windows of one document:

  • Channels may be visible only in one window;
  • Eyedropper doesn’t pick occasional colors from visible channels;

• To change the prefix, add more prefixes or remove some, edit the toggle_channel_visibility.jsx file found in Scripts fodler of your Photoshop;
• It’s possible to have several copies of the script with different prefixes, just make a copy of the toggle_channel_visibility.jsx``and edit ``<name> and prefixes fields of a copy;

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Toggle Zoom

Overview:

• This script toggles between two zoom levels;
• It only works in Photoshop versions from CC2015 though;

Usage:

• Assign script to a hotkey;
• Change options inside the toggle_zoom.jsx file;

Advanced:

• with smartZoom option set to true Toggle Zoom will toggle between two last used zoom extremes. For example, you were at 25% zoom, calling the function will zoom to 300%. Next time you call teh function, you’ll unzoom back to 25%. If you unzoom to 16.67%, first call bring you back to 300%, second — to 16.67%.
• with smartZoom option set to false Toggle Zoom will toggle zoom between current zoom value and value from zoom variable (default is 25%). Yes, I used a word zoom 5 times in this sentence.

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Toggle Flip

Overview:

• This script flips canvas horizontally (by default) or vertically while maintaining visual center of the document;
• It only works in Photoshop versions from CC2015 though;

Usage:

• Assign script to a hotkey;
• Change options inside the toggle_flip.jsx file;

Advanced:

• with isHorizontal option set to true Toggle Flip will flip canvas horizontally;
• with isHorizontal option set to false Toggle Flip will flip canvas vertically;
• if you’re using a HDPI display (4K, 5K, Retina display on Mac), change scaleFactor to the value of your zoom factor. For Mac Retina it’s 2. For Windows get a percent value from Display Settigns and divide it by 100 (150% > 1.5);

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