Copy Layer Styles Script

[Oscar Gomez]

Thanks for responding Dave,

That’s definitely one way of doing it. The problem is we have many different layers which different layer styles assigned to them, that need to be copied and pasted to multiple different layers in multiple different comps. This becomes a very tedious task, one that could be improved by adding a Copy Layer Styles button to something like FT Toolbar or Kbar.

Thanks!

[Roei Tzoref]

No specific shortcut unfortunately. you can press UU to reveal modified properties and highlight the layer styles hirerchy and copy paste.

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[Walter Soyka]

I would love to see your Kbar setup sometime.

Of course this is possible:

var selectedItem = null;
var layerStylesExist = false;

// find the first selected item
if (app.project.activeItem instanceof CompItem) {
if (app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers.length > 0)
selectedItem = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0];
}

// see if it has layer styles
if (selectedItem == null) {
clearOutput();
writeLn("No valid selection.");
} else {
layerStylesExist = true;
try {
selectedItem.property("Layer Styles").selected = true;
} catch (err) {
layerStylesExist = false;
clearOutput();
writeLn("No layer styles on (first) selected layer.");
}
}

// copy the layer styles if they exist
if (layerStylesExist) {
app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Deselect All"));
selectedItem.property("Layer Styles").selected = true;
app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId("Copy"));
clearOutput();
writeLn("Copied layer style(s).");
}

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[Oscar Gomez]

Oh man! you’ve done it again!

Thank you so much, I’ve got to start learning to code. It’s amazing how you just know how to do this. Thanks!!!

Here’s my Kbar Setup. It’s constantly growing and changing, sometimes thanks to you!

Unfortunately I can’t show you the Kbar for the production I’m working on which includes the script you made to set keyframes on the selected layer’s slider control. It’s been really helpful btw!