Saving layers as individual files all at once

Since I am creating files to use in PrEl I need multiple layers to become multiple tracks. Is there any way to simply save all the layers of my files as individual files without unhiding each layer and then saving each file one by one.

Have you also asked on the PremEl forum? I do not believe that PSE has any means of doing this - except in this special context, I cannot imagine why anyone would want to. I was wondering if PremEl has an import facility to deal with it for you.

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How do I export Layers to individual Files?

In Photoshop CS, there is a script that exports Layers to individual Files.
Go to File>Scripts>Export Layers to Files.

Hi Arien,
If your animation program supports paste open it and select each layer,
Select>All, Edit>Copy and paste that layer into that program.
If your animation program doesn't support paste you can paste each layer
into a New file and save it as a *.png image.
Alex .,

Scanning Multiple Photos All at the Same Time and Saving It in Individual File Names

Printer : HP Officejet 4500Advantage All-in-One Printer-K710g
Problem: I used to scan 5 multiple pictures all at once and save those in 5 individual files. I cant do that anymore. it scans as a whole picture. can somebody help? thanks.

Hi @kmjamj
Running the Print and Scan Doctor might help. The HP Print and Scan Doctor is a free utility (tool) that helps to quickly resolve common printing, scanning and connectivity issues including but not limited to:
Connectivity:
USB: Verifies that the USB connection from your computer to the HP product is working correctly.
Network: Verifies that the network connection between your computer and your network is working correctly.
Device Status Test: Checks for device errors such as out of paper, paper jams, carriage stalls, and paper feed issues, and then provides instructions for fixing the error.
Driver Check: Checks for missing or corrupt driver files.
Device Manager: Checks for problems in Device Manager that would prevent printing.
Device Online: Checks if the product has been paused or set to offline, and then sets the status back to online if necessary.
Print Queue: Checks for and clears pending print jobs in the print queue (a log of print jobs waiting to print).
Port Match: Checks the port settings for the HP product.
Device Conflicts: Checks for conflicts with other drivers, such as other printer brands.
Ink Issues: Checks the cartridges and ink levels for issues that affect print quality.
Print Settings: Checks and adjusts the print quality settings.
Test Print: Prints a test page for print quality evaluation, and provides options for cleaning and aligning the printhead if necessary.
Scan Tests: Checks the scan mechanism, drivers, and registry entries.
Source:Try the HP Print and Scan Doctor for Windows
Click here to download and run the Print and Scan Doctor> www.hp.com/go/tools
If that does not resolve the issue, post back and let me know if there are any symbols other than green check marks and what they are next to of course. The wrench is not always easy to spot as the wrench and the check mart are in the green circle.
If you see only green check marks (), the tool did not find any problems.
If you see green wrenches (), the utility identified an issue and corrected it automatically.
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Script to save layers as individual files

Hi there guys,
I just got a new job and they require me to save several elements of a PSD file into individual files with their proper name. I'm trying to get a script which would help me with this and also help me be more productive with some other work instead of spending all day doing this. Can someone help me out here with a script that would save each layer as its own file with the layer's name? Does this make sense? Your help is very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dan

Edit the script in ExtendScript Toolkit as per attached pic.

Exporting Layers to individual files

Simple question. Is it possiple to export layers to indivual files in Photoshop elements 8?
This issue is driving up the wall. So far I have been unable to locate a singl, am I ,issing something?
discussion or tutorial on the subject.
Any input will be most appreciated

If you have pse 6 through pse 10, then this export layers to files script should work:
https://acrobat.com/#d=blJVJ4ZFfR7dRg24q-mBbQ
To install:
1. download and unzip
2. right click on the script and choose copy
3. navigate to the elements scripts folder
example path: (windows and sustitute your version for 8.0)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 8.0\Presets\Scripts
4. right click in a blank area and choose paste
5. start or restart elements and export layers to files should be listed under Files>Automation Tools

Batch saving layers as individual jpegs

I have searched the forums and haven't quite found what I was looking for. I have assembled a wholel lot of scanned pages from my sketch pad into one psd file. That file has guides which I use to register and align every page (each page is therefore its own layer). Is there a way I can make an action and save off each individual layer as its own jpeg? I set up an action but I don't know how to get photoshop to save it with a distinct namespace. The first action I set up basically prompted me to re-name each layer as I saved it, which isn't really saving time. What I want is for the action to start at the bottom layer and turn off the visiblity of all the layers above it, save the visible layer as a jpeg with a name based on the layer and then turn on the next layer's visibitlity and repeat, until all layers have been saved. Is that doable?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
ACC

swhinck wrote:
I gave this a shot and it did create multiple files for each layer but there is a problem.
If I manually "Save for web" as jpeg at 80, my jpeg weighs about 8KB.
If I use the script to export the jpegs at "Quality" of 8, I end up with the same image at 55KB.
Thats a big difference, is there something I am not doing in order to get the same compression?
When you save for web at 80% are you saving at 100% size or are you also reducing the images pixel size?

How do I export layers as individual files?

I have an animation with 24 bit colors and alpha transparency. Each frame is a layer in my project and I wish to export each individual layer as a PNG so I can create an animation in a different tool. Is there a way to do this?

Hi Arien,
If your animation program supports paste open it and select each layer,
Select>All, Edit>Copy and paste that layer into that program.
If your animation program doesn't support paste you can paste each layer
into a New file and save it as a *.png image.
Alex .,

Photoshop Elements 11 Script to Save Layers as Individual Files?

I am BEYOND frustrated right now. I do not understand why this feature is not built into this program. I am not, nor will I ever be, rich enough to afford any of the Photoshop CS programs and it seems absurd to spend 800+ dollars just for this feature.
I have spent the last FOUR hours painstakingly creating a 200-frame animation. All I want. Is to turn it into a gif. That's all I want. NO program will import the psd. I downloaded the free trial of Flash CC but, not only is it over complicated, it lags SO BADLY it takes one minute just to perform the import action. After that, it only imports one image from the PSD anyway and won't animate. I found a post here a little bit ago where somebody posted a script that will make PSE11 do what I want it to. They did not however post it in plain text, they posted it in a link. All that link did was redirect me to the main Adobe web page. I am sick. And tired. Of hunting for a solution. I cannot find this script through google no matter what I try. So I am asking here. PLEASE TELL ME I did not waste the last four hours of my life creating a useless animation.

Wafflemonster234 wrote:
I found a post here a little bit ago where somebody posted a script that will make PSE11 do what I want it to. They did not however post it in plain text, they posted it in a link. All that link did was redirect me to the main Adobe web page. I am sick. And tired. Of hunting for a solution. I cannot find this script through google no matter what I try. So I am asking here. PLEASE TELL ME I did not waste the last four hours of my life creating a useless animation.
Not $800+, only $12. The affordable Elements+ has lots of useful scripts, including Exporting Layers to Files.

Is it possible to place multiple PDFs cropping to bleed box in one Photoshop file all at once?

I have looked around for scripts, but it doesn't seem to be one.
I came across Dr. Brown's Place-A-Matic, but it doesn't place the the bleed box like I need.
Is there a script out there that can do this?
Thank you so much.

I would highly recommend posting your question in the Photoshop Scripting Forum too.
Photoshop Scripting

Collections Missing Files - Is there a way to fix them all at once?

Hello,
Due to new computer, all files has been moved to a new location.
Obviously, the collections I have can't find them now and reporting "Missing Files".
Now, I need to fix them by finding them folder by folder, and since the collections contains items from many folders, It will take hours to fix them all so I wondered if there is a way to tell Bridge about the new location of the files all at once.
I hope I managed to explain what I'm looking for.
Thank you,
shlomit

Which OS? If on Windows you can find your Bridge collections list at (win 7 bridge cs6 example):
C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CS6\Collections
The files in Collections folder are .filelist - text xml format. You could copy filelists from the old system's Collections folder to the Bridge AppData Collections folder in your new system so long as all the referenced files listed in the collection filelists are in the same disks and folders on your new system.

Photoshop CS6 program error saving layered files

I recently updated my adobe software and I am still getting issues with saving layered files. I keep gettting program error - only occasionally. Sometimes saving to my desktop works and other times it doesnt. Other coworkers are experiencing same thing ever since they updated. It happens when working on a layered file for any length of time and need to save it out as a layered photoshop file. We are forced to flatten and save as a tif and loose our layers. I think it has something to do with background task but not sure...

Drag the file to your desktop, open the file there, do your edits, save, and then drag back.
Let us know what you are working off. If server, what server software are you using. System preferences >> spotlight, uncheck all items.

How to import a PSD file into Indesign WITH layers so it can be edited/saved as an InDesign file?

How to import a Photoshop file into Indesign CS6 so that it's layers show in InDesign and it can then be edited/saved as an InDesign file?

MyTienN wrote:
Someone had mentioned the possibility of saving each individual layer in Photoshop as a png file and importing into Indesign and adjusting it in there
What do you mean by "adjust"? Editing of Photoshop images should be done in Photoshop.
Sure, it's possible to save individual layers from an image in Photoshop as inidvidual files in a variety of formats, but what's the point? You could just as easily import the layered file, then copy/paste it into a new layer for each layer in the image and use layer visibility to control which ones show. I don't think that will do you a lot of good, though, if you use adjustment layers or opacity controls on the layer in Photoshop.

Saving metadata manually - saves to all files, not only touched

Since "Automatically write XMP" didn't work properly before version 1.3, I'm still not using it in 1.3. Still a little scared.
My idea is to once in a while select all pictures (or just right click the topmost folder in the folder view) and select "save metadata". But I did some tests now with various images, and this command actually wrote metadata to ALL selected files, even though no keywords, metadata or adjustsments had been made. The import was done with no preset too.
So how do I ensure that only changes I have made are written to the files and that old files remains untouched? And what imaginary metadata does it write?

Hi
Some files may have had metadata written by other applicatons (IPTC - not XMP), but the recent test I did yesterday was fresh files from my cellphone-camera. So what I did was first to select just a few images in the grid and select "save metadata". All files were updated (both the timestamp and the archive-attribute. And with the archive-attribute changes, everything will be backed up again if a normal incremental backup procedure is used). I also right-clicked a folder in the left pane and selected "save metadata" and the same happened.
So I did not do this operation on my whole library, still not trusting LR I prefer to test things in small scale first. Lucky for me.
I checked the files and what had happened is that XMP-data was written to the files. This is just like when I turned on "automatically write XMP" on LR 1.0 - it updated all my image files, even those that was not changed. So it seems I have got almost the same situation again.
So, no - it did not re-write files that had already been touched. This is the first time LR writes to the files, but I don't see why it should write to files that are not changed. I don't agree that LR needs to write to the files once. Why should it? What should it write?
Did this make sense?
Funny, I'm listening to an old Lightroom podcast right now and the team says that one of the design ideas was to be friendly to existing image catalogs. Saving data to unchanged files is not really friendly.

All my saved layers disappeared. Shows only one locked black layer.with red sripes

All my saved layers disappeared. Shows only one locked black layer.with red sripes

Apple changed the save behaviour several times in the past few versions of MacOsX - there is a good article about this:
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/os-x-mountain-lion-how-apple-rescued-save-as
The trouble is, you should (I know, not much of a help to you at this point) always create backups AND work with versions. So save many versions (x1, x1a, x2, x2a, etc), because when you work within one master file you run the risk of these type of accidents and there is always a tiny change your file becomes corrupt for some external reason. You never know. Disk space is cheap, losing your work is often a real hassle, and can become very problematic when dealing with clients.
So, save many versions, and make backups of your work. And never NEVER open your original files in any other software - always use a duplicate. You never know what that software might do to your files.
Anyway, have you tried searching for the file name on your mac? Maybe, just maybe there is a duplicate lying around somewhere with the layers intact.

Can't open .msg files more then once, saved or as an attachment to an email

we use :
microsoft xp & office/outlook 2003
can't open .msg files more then once, saved or as an attachment to an email
If we save an email as a outlook.msg file , we can only open it once, close it,
when trying to open it again it gives an error that it is not possible due to a scurity issue or it is already open.
After closing outlook and starting it again, we can open it once again.
Same when clicking an .msg that is attached to an email, but here we can switch to another email, go back to the one and open it again.
We have installed all updates for both xp and office 2003 also internet explorer 8.0 to test if that would work, normally we have ie7.0.

Hi,
1． What is the detail error information, please try to reproduce the issue and then post the detail error information here.
2． Did you save the msg file locally or on a network drive?
3． Please try to check security on the msg file and also check the drive NTFS permission.
4． Copy over the email messages from the affected user machine to a different machine and check if the issue persist.
5． Test if the issue persist after saving a new email on Mailbox to local drives.
6． Copy over the affected email messages from local drive to a PST file and check if these emails can be opened fine.
1)    Create a new PST file .
2)    Added to user’s Outlook profiles.
3)    Launch Outlook .
4)    Highlight a folder under this PST.
5)    Drag and drop or copy/paste the emails from local drive to Folder highlighted under the PST files.
Besides, please try to remove all the add-ins like Entrust and then test the issue again.
1.     Remove add-ins
1)    Uncheck all Third-Party Add-ins selected in Outlook , found under Tool\Options\Other\Add-ins managers.
2)    Export the registry hive below for backup.
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook \Addins
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook \Addins
3)    Delete the registry entries under the above path for all Third-Party Add-ins.
4)    Close , Open Outlook and attempt to open email message on local drives.
2.     Temporarily stop all third-party application running following the steps
below.
1)    Run MSCONFIG
2)    Go to Services Tab\Select Hide all Microsoft Services check box.
3)    Click Disable All.
4)    Restart the Machine Test if the issue persist.
5)    To revert back the above setting Run MSCONFIG, Go to General Tab , Select Normal
Startup and restarted the machine.
Regards,
Xiu
1 Translated from dutch as good as i know :
"Can't open : c:\test.msg, it might not exist, do you have the required permission to open the file or is it open in another application. Click
with the right mousebutton on the map click properties to view/check the rights for that map."
2 tried both, the network and locally, i have the rights to save it in the map and open it once, so thats not the problem, iseems that outlook locks the file after it is openen once.
3 security and ntfs permissions are ok, see 2
4 tried it from different pc's networks maps etc.
5 done.
6 in a pst file the msg can be openen ore than once, but thats not the problem, tried and this works, but i need to save an email as an .msg file.
7 addins removed and doen all of that part, didn't help.
We also have tried:
-Installing all updates and ie8
-going back to xp sp2 (fresh install of xp)
Only thing that did work was an msg file attached to an email, we couldn't open that more then once,
but after checking "Use exchange modus with cache" at the account properties we could open that more than once.
Now we need to be able to open the email's saved as .msg more then 1 time.

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