Download

You can place the script into Photoshop/Presets/Scripts folder and access it from File → Scripts menu.
You can also setup a custom hotkey in Edit → Keyboard shortctus…

UI and functions remained pretty much the same, so you can review description of each slider in the previous post

I've added Preview button, which give you ability to preview transformation result before applying it. May be pretty useful.

Take a notice

CC2014/2015 users may experience some interface “flashing” while clicking Preview button. It doesn't affect anything, it's just how things work in the new version of Photoshop, I couldn't find a way to fix this (if you know how — tell me in the comments)
Maybe Adobe will fix this in future patches.

Anyway, hope you'll enjoy using updated version!

It is not the first time when I encounter this, so I decided to write this post so I could remember how to fix this again, and maybe it'll help some of you too.

How it looks

Here's a gif showing how this bug looks like:

How to fix this (OS X)

And in case you ever encounter the same thing here's how to fix this:

1. Quit Photoshop and open Activity Monitor.app and shut down WacomTabletDriver process
2. Relaunch Wacom Tablet Driver, it is just regular *.app file stored in /Library/Application Support/Tablet/
3. Launch your Photoshop, everything should work fine now

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Way to go Wacom!

Recently, Marc Edwards from @Bjango wrote an article on creating color palettes using adjustment layers. Pretty neat idea. But getting all of the color values from resulting image manually can be tedious. So, I made a script that solves this problem.

What it does

Script parses image for colors and add them to your swatches library (Window → Swatches)

How to use it

1) First of all you'll need a grid of colors. Read Marc's article on how to make it:

2) Then you have to make a rectangular selection that contains all of your colors. Use ⌘+click in Layers panel for percise selection:

3) Now it's time to run the script. Here you'll need to specify amount of rows and columns of your colors grid:

4) When you hit “OK” script will scan your selection for colors and add them to your swatches panel (Window → Swatches):

That's it! From there you can either export your palette as Adobe Color File (.aco) or use it right away inside your Photoshop.

You actually don't have to use rectangular or square pieces of colors for this. Just make sure that all of your colors lay down in some kind of a grid. Script will basically split your selection into zones and will pick colors from each one:

Download Color Parser.jsx

You may want to place it into your Photoshop/Presets/Scripts folder to have a quick access from File → Scripts menu.

Script was tested in Photoshop CS5, CS6 and CC’14

Fun Part

Scanning for color palettes may be fun. But what if we will use pixel art picture as a source image? Surprisingly enough, script will depict this image inside of your swatches panel!

For example, you can pick Super Mario sprite and make a rectangular selection around it:

Then enter its pixel dimensions as rows (height) and columns (width)

And voilà!

Take a notice in our case script will make 29 × 18 = 522 color swatches, so it can take few moments to finish. Also make sure to empty your swatches before running the script, here's Mindy Wager writes how to do it

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Hope you'll have some fun with this script! :)

What is it?

Basically, RotateMe is a script that makes desired amount of clones for selected layer and places all copies around a cricle

In new version you can specify radius of the circle and give some rotation to each copy

So you can make some interesing things with it, like flowers, preloaders or even clock face

Download [KAM] RotateMe 3.jsx

Put downloaded file into Photoshop/Presets/Scripts directory and restart your Photoshop. Script will appear in File → Scripts → [KAM] RotateMe 3

You can also setup a hotkey in Edit→Keyboard Shortcuts…

Tested on Photoshop CS5, CS6 and CC.

User Interface

Script's UI looks like this:

In Properties you'll find:
- Copies — total amount of duplicates
- Radius — distance from the center in which each copy will be placed
- Rotation — here you can specify rotation for each copy

In Options you can find:
- Rotate Relative To Center — I guess it's easier to show a picture:

I also added these options because of some requests in comments to previous scripts:
- Group Layers — puts all new copies in a group folder
- Save Original Layer — check this to save original layer, otherwise it'll be deleted

Using with Transform Each 2.0

My previous script can be really useful here if you want to tune up some options after using RotateMe, like rotation:

Or scaling of individual layers for more interesting results:

Yup

There you have it, hope you'll have some fun with this new script. Sometimes you can come up with really interesting results, hope to see some of them in comments ;)

I rewrote it from the ground, fixed previous bugs, redesigned the interface and added some features, which were requested in comments.

If you're new here, Transform Each is a script that gives ability to make individual transformations with a group of layers:

Download Transform Each 2.0 (25 KB)

Transform Each 2.1 is live. Get it here →

Move downloaded file to Photoshop/Presets/Scripts/ and it'll be available in Photoshop through the menu File → Scripts → ...

You can also set shortcut in Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts… (open File> Scripts> and find installed script).

Tested in Adobe Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC

New Interface

I guess most noticeable change is script's new interface:

I decided to get rid of Skew, Move and Random, because, well, they were not so useful. Excpet for the Random I guess, it has potential, but I think it needs some rethinking, maybe I'll make it as a separate script someday. Anyway, as the result we have Scale and Rotate — functions that were most popular among people I polled.

Anchor Point

I also added option to select the anchor point — point around which all transformations will be made. You can choose one of the nine positions: top left corner, middle center, bottom right corner etc. You can see how it works on this gif:

Basically it replicates functionality of the same control in Photoshop's transform tool options.

Small fixes

Beside that, Transform Each now works correctly with layers inside different groups and you can now undo all script actions in one click. Finally.

Yep

Yeah, it's 2.0 despite of the fact that previous version was just “Beta”. Because this is how things are work here, son.
Anyway, hope you'll find this update useful. Have fun!

Should be useful if you are layer organization geek or if you use applications like Slicy or new Photoshop CC feature called Image Assets, that can export layers using tags in their names.

Download and Install

Download Latest Version of the Script
Put downloaded file into Photoshop/Presets/Scripts/ and restart Photoshop. Script will be available in the menu File → Scripts → [KAM] Layers Renamer - APR

And as always you can setup a custom hotkey for the script in Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts…. I have F2 hotkey for renaming layers (basically it is Layer (Group) Properties), so I used alt+F2 for group renaming.

How it works

Basically, all you need is select target layers, run the script, enter new text and choose renaming method:

Methods are:
Append — add text at the end of the layer name;
Prepend — add text at the beginning of the layer name;
Replace — completely replace layer name by entered text

I also added special keyword %n, that will be replaced by layer's index while renaming process.

For example, if you enter Item #%n:

Then layers will have names like Item #1, Item #2, Item #3 and so on:

Update according layer folders renaming:

if you use @darkwark's Layer Renaming script in PS CS6 – use cmd to select multiple groups not shift, then it only renames the group folder

— Matthew Rose (@matrose25) October 31, 2013

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Finally I released this script, hehe. Its functionality were done a while ago, but I was lazy to make a UI for it. But here it is. Hope it will help in your workflow.

Have a good week!

Read on Smashing Magazine ...

Long story short, script makes you able to setup a hotkeys for changing foreground color's brightness

There are actually two scripts: one increases brightness by 10% and another decreases it

Of course, you can do it manually in color picker or in Color panel, but I always wanted to have a hotkey for this. If you missed this too, download link and instructions are below.

Download

Latest version of the script can be downloaded here.

Installing

In the archive you'll find two script files: [KAM] Color Darken.jsx and [KAM] Color Lighten.jsx

You have to put them into Photoshop/Presets/Scripts/, just like regular scripts, nothing special

Then, you have to restart Photoshop and go to `Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts...thenFile >,Scripts >`` look for just installed scripts and setup hotkeys for them. My shortcuts look like this:

• Color Darken — cmd+alt+[
• Color Lighten — cmd+alt+]

I was kind of surprised that they were available. After configuring hotkeys you are ready to go.

Yup

Yeah, again blog-post about scripts for Photoshop. And I can not promise you that it will be the last one — I have few more in the development process :P

Anyway, hope this will be helpful in your workflow. Have a good summer everyone!

P.S.: And sorry for my poor English guys, hehe (read recently in Twitter that someone is lol'ing about it)

If you like me, then you know the problem with templates in Photoshop. Everything that Adobe gave us is document size presets. It's cool, but not enough, for me at least. I have bunch of “starter-kits” for different design tasks, like iOS icon grid or iPhone screen with native navigation bar, tab bar etc. I have to duplicate them to my project folder again and again.

I think, such routine processes should be automated and be done by computer, to save our precious time for actual work. Therefore I decided to write this script.

What it is?

Here's how it works. When you create new document in Photoshop, you can add to the end of your document name special keyword, +960x12 for example:

Then our new document will have 12 column 960 grid with guides in layer group called “Grid (960x12)”:

That's it :)

Download and install

Installing

Install process differs from regular scripts, so please read carefully and do all steps as described below:
1. Move downloaded folder (!) to Photoshop/Presets/Scripts/Event Scripts Only/ (if there's no Event Scripts Only folder, then create it)
Take a notice that you need to move whole folder, not just scripts inside them.

2. Inside downloaded folder you'll find file called +install.jsx, you have to run it in Photoshop. To do this, double click on it. If somehow script will not opens in Photoshop, then run it from it manually via menu File→Scripts→Browse or just drop script file into Photoshop window/icon on dock.

It should show you message, that script was installed successfully. After this installation is completed.

Uninstalling

If you want to uninstall script, then you have to run file +uninstall.jsx, just as described above in step 2, it'll show you message that script was uninstalled, then you can just remove folder from your /Scripts/Event Scripts Only/ directory

What other keywords exist?

I decided to add few preinstalled templates, here they are:

960 Grid System: from +960x2 to +960x16

This is popular 960.gs grid with from 2 to 16 columns. Here's how it works: you write keyword +960xN where N can be: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 or 16. For example, if you enter +960x8 it will create grid with 8 columns.
Take a notice, that your document should be at least 960 px wide.

OSX Icon Template: +OSXicon

This keyword will make a grid for OS X icons with major sizes of 512, 256, 128, 48, 32 and 16 pixels. All sliced up and ready for export to PNG via Save for Web and Devices (don't forget to check All User Slices) Minimum size of the document is 850x640 px

iOS Icon Template: +iOSicon

This will create roundrects with major sizes for iPhone and iPad icons. Just like OS X icon template, all roundrects are sliced and ready for export to PNGs. Minimum size of the document is 850x640 px

User Templates

You can use your own templates and customize existing iOS and OSX icon templates. To do this, you just have to add your PSD with template inside /templates/ folder. Keyword for the template will be name of the document. For example, if you have template called test.psd, then keyword will be +test. Take a notice, that name of the file must have only latin characters and numbers (no special symbols)

Also, inside /templates/ folder you'll find iOS and OSX icon template, so you can customize or replace them if you want.

Inside document you can create text layer called %DocName%, then it will be renamed to the new document's name. Take a notice, that this layer should lay on the root of layers stack (e.g. it shouldn't be in the group)

Also, you may have noticed, that script resizes templates to the size that was entered in the New Document dialog. If you want to prevent this and use template as is, then you need to create empty layer in your template file with name Lock Size and place it to the top of all layers. Then script will not resize your new document and will use size of the template file

What else?

In future I want to add more dynamic templates like 960 grid, I have some thoughts about making responsive 960.gs. If you have any suggestions or ideas for the templates — add them in comments.

Yep

And that's it! Hope this script will help you save some time
Thanks.

What is it?

Imagine, that you have a feed with some text paragraphs and userpics:

You need to resize each userpic in 50%. If you'll select all of them and transform it via default Transform Tool, then it'll look like this:

Not cool. Alternatively, you can choose each image and transform it manually. This can be tedious process. So, here comes Transform Each, it transforms each of selected layers as it was transformed individually:

In our case, script resized each userpic in 50%, and moved it top right in 20px.

Download @ Install

Also don't forget to setup a hotkey (Edit→Keyboard Shortcuts…, look for File>Scripts>[KAM] TransformEach). My hotkey is cmd+alt+ctrl+T

Window description

When you run script you'll see this window:

All inputs are from default Transform Tool, but just in case, I'll write a bit about them:

Scale

Resizes layer
Horizontal (%) — horizontally resizes layer. 100% — is initial size, 200% — doubled size etc.
Vertical (%) — vertically resizes layer
You can enter negative values to flip object horizontally/vertically

Move

Moves layer relative to its current position
Horizontal — moves layer horizontally in pixels. Positive numbers moves layer to the right, negative — to the left
Vertical — moves layer vertically in pixels. Positive numbers moves layer to the bottom, negative — to the top:

Shear

Shears layer:

Horizontal — shears layer horizontally. Positive numbers shears layer to the left, negative — to the right. Vertically — shears layer vertically. Positive numbers shears object to the top, negative — to the bottom

Rotate

Rotates object
Angle — angle of the layer rotation in degrees. Positive numbers rotates object clockwise, negative — counterclockwise

Scale Styles checkbox

I guess it's self-descriptve—scales layer styles with layer.

Random checkbox

Allows to apply random transformation to the layers in the range of initial values to new values. For example, if you'll enter 360 in Rotate Angle and check Random, then script will randomize rotation angle for layers from 0 to 360. Same goes for scale: if you set horizontal/vertical scale to 500, then random will be in the range from 100 to 500

Some notices

There's one issue, that I'm still working on: If each of the selected layers were in their own groups, after script finish work all your layers will be in one group

I'm thinking how to walkaround this thing.
Also take in mind, that if you'll select big amount of layers it will take some time to perform all transformations

Yep

And that was another post with script for your Photoshop.
Hope you'll find it useful :)