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whainsjr

Joined: 10 Feb 2010
Posts: 1
PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:02 pm    Post subject: CS4 Action to select only layers with clipping mask Reply with quote
Hi,
I need to create a action is CS4 that will allow me to open a psd, select only the layers with clipping mask applied, extract the entire image, and save those images individually.

I have 1000's of psd's to go through in which I need to extract the all of the stock photos out of. So each psd could have up to 5 photos included and I need to create an action that will do this for me.

Anyone have any ideas on the best way to do this with actions, or is this not possible. I have thousands of psd's I need to go through.

Thanks
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Paul R

Joined: 06 Apr 2010
Posts: 57
PostPosted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
This should be no problem for a script. What format would you like the output to be?
Here is an example saving to psd.
Code:

main();
function main(){
if(!documents.length) return;
var doc = activeDocument;
var Name = app.activeDocument.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
var Path = decodeURI(doc.path);
for (var a = 0 ; a< activeDocument.artLayers.length;a++){
    activeDocument.activeLayer = activeDocument.artLayers[a];
    if(isClippingLayer()) {
        var NewDocName = decodeURI(Name+"-"+activeDocument.activeLayer.name);
        dupLayers(NewDocName);
        var saveFile = File(Path+"/"+NewDocName +".psd");
        SavePSD(saveFile);
        activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
    }
   }
}   
   
function isClippingLayer(){
   var layer = activeDocument.activeLayer;
   return (layer.grouped == true && layer.kind == LayerKind.NORMAL)
};
function dupLayers(NewDocName) {
    var desc143 = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref73 = new ActionReference();
        ref73.putClass( charIDToTypeID('Dcmn') );
    desc143.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref73 );
    desc143.putString( charIDToTypeID('Nm  '), NewDocName );
        var ref74 = new ActionReference();
        ref74.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
    desc143.putReference( charIDToTypeID('Usng'), ref74 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Mk  '), desc143, DialogModes.NO );
};
function SavePSD(saveFile){
psdSaveOptions = new PhotoshopSaveOptions();
psdSaveOptions.embedColorProfile = true;
psdSaveOptions.alphaChannels = true; 
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, psdSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);
};
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