Extract To New Layer Photoshop Script
I faced with a time consuming task as an animator and couldn't find any ready to use solution for it, so I made myself a script that would automate that process
The script helps in situations when you have a single layer image (e.g. from AI generation) and you need to slice to into multiple layers (e.g. for animation)
Basically it shrinks the sequence of ...
- Duplicating source layer
- Creating mask from selection on new layer
- Content-aware fill the selection on the source layer
... into one click
For me the best way to use this script is with the Object Selection Tool that was added in the recent Photoshop versions (with a little selection tweaks), so I would recommend that approach
To run the script you need to go to
File -> Scripts -> Browse... -> Find and open the downloaded MergeToGroupBelow.jsxbin file
or...
put the MergeToGroupBelow.jsxbin file into [Photoshop program folder]\Presets\Scripts
...and after Photoshop restart the script will be available at
File -> Scripts -> MergeToGroupBelow