Dragging To Select Multiple Layers In Document Window?
I've looked this up but can't seem to make it work. I want to select the 6 or 7 layers that make up a picture in my file. I'm working with a file someone else created so there are dozens of layers, which makes it hard to select just a few from the Layers Pallete.
Is there an easy way to select all the constituent layers of a particular item on the document window? I've tried ho0lding Shift down while trying to select all the layers, but that isn't effective because the layers are on top of eachother. Is there no way I can drag my mouse and have Photoshop select every layer that is complete inside the dragged area?
Thanks.
Ken
Ken, Marek's response is correct with regard to selecting, (read: targeting), layers in the Layers Panel.This is good if you need to apply a transformation to the contents of multiple layers simultaneously, use alignment/distribution features on those layers, or merge them.
Your description of what you're attempting, however, suggests you want to select the pixels residing on particular layers. The way you're doing it isn't the way it works. What you want can be done, but not in the image window. In the Layers Panel, Ctrl+Click on the layer thumbnail of the first layer you want selected, (you should see the actuated selection in the form of 'marching ants' surrounding the layer's non-transparent pixels...in the image), then add the Shift key and Shift+Ctrl+Click on the layer thumbnail of each of the additional layers to subsequently add their non-transparent pixels to the selection.
Note that all you're doing here is making a selection, as opposed to selecting the contents of multiple layers. Such a selection can only target a single layer, and any pixel-altering operation you apply with this selection active will only affect one layer...not all those that may have contributed to the additive selection-building process described.
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Selecting multiple keyframes in edit window
i am trying to figure out how select multiple keyframes at once in the edit window, to drag either to start or end of a clip instead of doing it one by one, i have used premiere for a long time, and i am used to just dragging a marquee box over the desired keyframes and moving them, i just cant seem to find out out this simple process in fcp. thx
You cannot grab a "selection" of keyframe's and move them within the clip, it is an all or nothing operation with FCP ... and its been yet another of the major failings of the app for a long time, the sort of thing that was forgivable for a fairly long while, but really by now it should have been addressed.
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Andy -
Is it possible to select multiple layers by selecting first and last layers?
I frequently get Illustrator files in that have individual objects such as paths on individual layers that could be grouped to make the layers more concise. I find that I have to shift click each individual layer to select it to eventually group it. At times, I have 25 or so layers that I need to select. Is there a way to select the first and last layer in the layers palette, and have Illustrator select all layers in between?
Katrina,
And I guess it's the way I work. 1) I routinely select objects by selecting them from the layers palette, and not the canvas, so that I can't accidentally move an object that is the clients artwork. I prefer to work this way, as I consider it "safer". (I lock layers I'm not using) I routinely run into artists work that for instance, converted fonts to outline, and now each compound layer that is an individual letter is an object on it's own layer. 2) I need things grouped together and titled so that if I need to come back to this file and quickly fix something on press, I can tell what layer holds what object.
3) Therefore, I frequently need to select objects in a two mile long (slight exaggeration ) list of layers/sublayers and group them, retaining them in their same layers in the event an effect has been applied at the top hiearchy of that layer.
It would be great if a key, or combination of keys, would allow me to select the top object, scroll down and select the last object, and have Illustrator select all between those two.
If you create and use selections as suggested in post #12, you do have to select individual objects when they share layers with other objects (but you can select whole layers as well) in exactly the way you are used to (1), but you only have to do it once instead of having to repeat it (3), and you have them collected with a title so you can find them again (2).
At least it is part of the way. -
Illustrator script to select multiple layers
I have about 74 layers in illustrator and i want to run a script to select combination of layers at a time.
For e.g. I want 5 layers to be selected and save them as one .jpg. Then say i need to select other 3 layers to save it as a seperate .jpg file. If i do it manually it comes upto 300,000 images.
I can create a csv file with all layers to be selected presented in a row. I need help with the command to select 4 or more layers at a time, say if i have layer1, layer2, layer3, layer4 then a command to select those 4 layers and save them as a .jpg file.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
H Patel
CEO
Data Entry IndiaCreate a csv or .text file ( i used "test.txt" and place it at any location say C:\\)
Enter the layer names to be exported in each row separated by ";" like
Layer 1;Layer 2
Layer 4;Layer 5;Layer 7 // you can type in the names of as many layers you wanted to export in a single jpeg
Open your main .Ai file in Illustrator and run the following script
var count;
count =1;
var f = new File ("C:\\test.txt");
f.open("r");
while(!f.eof)
c=f.readln();
var arr = c.split(";");
var len= arr.length;
for(i=0;i<len;i++)
lay= app.activeDocument.layers.getByName(arr[i]);
lay.hasSelectedArtwork=true;
app.copy();
app.documents.add();
app.paste();
var exportOptions = new ExportOptionsJPEG();
var type = ExportType.JPEG
var fileSpec = new File("c:\\"+count+".jpg");
app.activeDocument.exportFile( fileSpec, type, exportOptions );
app.activeDocument.close();
for(i=0;i<len;i++)
app.activeDocument.layers.getByName(arr[i]).hasSelectedArtwork=false;
count ++;
What this script is doing is
it is reading a line from the .txt file (c:\\test.txt in this case) and pushing the layers to be exported in an array
then selecting the objects on the layers to be exported
copying the selected contents
pasting the contents on the new doc
exporting as jpeg
closing the doc
deselecting the selected objects
Hope this will solve your problem ... -
Selecting multiple Layers (AS)
Hi,
How i possible to select more than one layers using AS.
If I select manually 2 layers and after I get properties of document, result say that current layer is only one. There is no trace about the current active selection on layer palette.
StefanoCapste, Im not convinced that you can do this with Applescript at least in CS2 unless some one else knows otherwise. the dictionary says:
current layer (layer) : selected layer for document
Again you should be able to set your target single layer as current layer then use some scriptlistener output to add to this. In the handler below your parameter options are in the commented notes. It should be self explanatory. The Add_Ref options are equivalent to GUI holding down either "Shift" or "Command"
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
activate
set Doc_Ref to the current document
tell Doc_Ref
set current layer to layer "Layer 5"
delay 0.2
my Select_Layers(Doc_Ref, "Layer 3", "addToSelectionContinuous")
end tell
end tell
on Select_Layers(Doc_Ref, Layer_Ref, Add_Ref)
-- Layer_Ref = Name string of layer to add to selection
-- Add_Ref = addToSelection or addToSelectionContinuous
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
tell Doc_Ref
do javascript "Select_Layers(); function Select_Layers() { function cTID(s) { return app.charIDToTypeID(s); }; function sTID(s) { return app.stringIDToTypeID(s); }; var desc01 = new ActionDescriptor(); var ref01 = new ActionReference(); ref01.putName( cTID('Lyr '), '" & Layer_Ref & "' ); desc01.putReference( cTID('null'), ref01 ); desc01.putEnumerated( sTID('selectionModifier'), sTID('selectionModifierType'), sTID('" & Add_Ref & "') ); desc01.putBoolean( cTID('MkVs'), false ); executeAction( cTID('slct'), desc01, DialogModes.NO );};" show debugger on runtime error
end tell
end tell
end Select_Layers -
Need a click and drag script for multiple layers.
Hi. I'm realitivly new to Flash and Action Script.
For a Majour project school asignment i am trying to create an interactive map for a hypothetical theme park, and i'll cut to the chase, i need a script that allows the player to drag the content of two or three layers around the screen upon mouse click, similar to this example:\
http://www.dreamworld.com.au/content/drw_2008_shopping.asp?name=ParkMap
I will have a layer for buttons (probably called Buttons) and a layer for the map graphic (Probably called Map), similar to this tutorial:
http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/interactive_map/
If anyone could produce, or has a script lying around that could do this; i would really apreciate it.
This assignment has a large impact on my UAI (universities admission index).
Thanks for your time,
PatThanks for your help. I really appreciate it.
The problem is; this is the script i am using to make the map interactive:
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
var cities:Array = ["muscat", "sohar", "dubai","abu_dhabi"]
function mover (targetX, targetY){
currentX = marker_mc._x;
currentY = marker_mc._y;
var xTween:Tween = new Tween(marker_mc, "_x", Strong.easeOut, currentX, targetX, .5, true);
var yTween:Tween = new Tween(marker_mc, "_y", Back.easeOut, currentY, targetY, 1.5, true);
for (var i = 0; i<cities.length; i++){
var my_btn = this[cities[i]+"_btn"];
my_btn.myCity = cities[i];
my_btn.onRollOver = function() {
mover( this._x, this._y);
marker_mc.gotoAndStop(this.myCity);
And when the buttons are made to be part of a movie clip with the image i am using for the background this script does not work.
The script is located in a layer called "Actions", if that is of any help at all.
Any ideas?
I am sorry if I am being a newsense.
Thanks
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