Professional Photographer Dublin | Kyle Tunney

nice tool Kyle!
i was having a hard time counting all the layers of the vectorized photo i’m working on. then i thought, there must be an easy way to count all these layers. and your script was the answer!
it had 274 layers all in all. thanks man!

beautiful! thank you very much!

Thanks …just what I was looking for!

Current document: 1107 layers !!

Hey Kyle!

Thanks for this script, not that I needed it but I was curious about my latest project file. Now my question is: does it count all the layers that are in groups too? or is a group counted as one layer?!

Cheers, phil

Hey Kyle, thanks for this script! Curiosity gets the better of me some times and this is really handy!

Thank man, great job on the script. I layer stack photos one at a time for work, and at the end i need to know how many object (layers) i have. this just made my life a whole lot simpler. thanks bro.

Thanks Kyle-

265! Will have to try it on some of my bigger files as well.

Hi!
Real nice sript. It is very useful since I rarily work with files with less than 200 layers and its always nice to know how many layers there are in the project.

There is a problem though – If I have a file with 1000 – 5000 layers (which happends when designing a hefty website) – it takes way too long for the scrit to count them and there is no way to cancel the script or see how far in the progress the counting has come. Is this something you could develope? It would be much appreciated.

Otherwise I will have to initiate the script when I leave a friday night and see the result on monday morning. ^^

/André

Reply –
I see, its a pity you won’t continue with the script soon. This is actually the top search at google for photoshop layer count =) A progress bar would be useful, and a step in the right direction in user-friendlyness ^^

The reason I don’t really split my projects into numerous files is simple – I have a monster machine of a computer and get no lesser performance in high layer count. Lately I have had to split sited and designs up though, due to other people using my design source files. I definitly see a great point to it.

Even so, I seem to get a really high layer count, with layer compositions, graphic source-files, notes-layer-groups, work-groups and replicated groups used all over the design.

When I get the time, maybe I will continue on your script and add these things =) Regardless, I will link to this blog from my own site (not yet operational).

Thank you however. /André

Kyle, your script is extremely appreciated! 697 layers I did not have to count!!!!! Kudos!

Thanks man…..I wish it didn’t count the Groups. Is this possible? Future version maybe?

Dustin-
Actually, I think groups should and must be included in the layer-count since they actually fill as vital functions as a layer do, not just folders and categorizers. If I use a group to mask all its content or something like that – shouldn’t that count as a layer? In that case, should really clipping masks and adjustment layers count as well?

I think its just as valid in the count as regular layers =)

Still using the script – awesome.

Hey very nice blog!! I will bookmark your blog..

Great script!
thanx a bunch…
working on some complicated website UI designs, with loads of grouped layers.. thought I had about 100 or so layers.
Once I ran the script and the result was 375 layers….

I wish Photoshop had a layer index numbering like After effects does, just before the layer name, as well as a lock right there and not at the top of the layers palette.

Could a script count the groups as well like a hierarchy list?
Counting the topmost groups, the sub groups and all the layers?
tks

yeah.. a progress bar with the layer numbers dynamically counting would be cool.

WOW. This script just made me squeal with glee. This is PRECISELY what I needed for digital painting. I’m trying to get into the habit of keeping all my layers, and this just sold me. In return, a link to the image I just finished and used your script to count layers in.

(88 was the count, incidentally. Though I did some thorough merging at the bottom.)

super useful, thanks!

Nice script, thanks for sharing!

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Keep up the good work.

OMG!! Thanks a bunch!!

I’ve been looking for something exactly like this!!
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This is awesome i started to count layers but i found this script and worked great.
Layer count on a Virtual DJ skin im making: 985

Thanks to the creator of this script

Just what i needed…tnx a lot!

hey kyle,

would love it if your script would give a more detailed output. as for my work it would be great to see the count of visbible vs. unvisible
layers. e.g. ( your doc has 101 layers / 23 visible)
an option to count folders and their content as one layer opposed to count all layers regardless of their structural order would be great, too. last but not least if the script could run as a panel similar to the “info” constantly giving out layer and (un)visible count i’d be perfekt.
i appreciate your work.

greetz

Hi!

Thanks a lot for this script. It is actually very useful to me. Do you guys know if its any way tho to modify it to count the photoshop groups instead of the layers? That would be so awesome to me to be able to count the groups.

Thanks!
Em

would love it if your script would give a more detailed output. as for my work it would be great to see the count of visbible vs. unvisiblelayers. e.g. ( your doc has 101 layers / 23 visible)an option to count folders and their content as one layer opposed to count all layers regardless of their structural order would be great, too. last but not least if the script could run as a panel similar to the “info” constantly giving out layer and (un)visible count i’d be perfekt.i appreciate your work.
+1

wow, that was a great help, nice use of photoshops “script” feature!!!!

Cool, thnx!

Been looking for something like this for AGES!

111 Layers, at the moment, by the way,

What’s up Kyle,

Have one question? – What about this script supporting Photoshop CS5? I been working with older version of the photoshop, like CS3 before, and this script worked with no doubt sickest script on the PS, but when I decided to move on the further, newer version such as CS5, this script seemed to crash ps cs5 while it counts my layers, so is this script only for the older photoshop versions, or it’s something to do with me or my photoshop & computer?

Waiting for your feedback,
dldesign.

I just used this script with Photoshop CS5 and it worked amazingly well. I had an illustration composed of logos supplied by a client and I wanted to be sure they were all used in the finished product so I compared numbers in the folder of logos and the finished artwork. 199 layers, it matched and I can stop worrying if I included them all. Thanks!

very nice script, thanks for that! i usualy try to keep the layers down as much as possible, cuz i cant get quiet laggy. thanks god there are smart objects! my last file had 1400 layers

Genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you:) it worked perfectly.

Hey,
Thank you for this script! When I downloaded on mac for some reason it was converting it to a .txt file. I renamed the file and got rid of it and it works! This is very helpful for comparisons and making sure you have included everything in a project. Thank you very much!
Layers: 106!

The only problem with this script is that it froze my system and didn’t count the layers in my Photoshop document.

0/10

Great script! Thank you for the effort of writing it!

its amazing
thanks
is there any way to merge it with the Photoshop
i mean open any menu and find it and simply press on it
another question:
can i use it with illustrator ? and if not ; may you do a favor and innovate another one for it

thanks man you are the best

It works but it needs about 10 minutes to count 490 layers in a 500MB psd with CS6.

Brilliant-Thankyou!

Thank you so much!!