Brush Strength

Photoshop UXP Plugin API
1

Hi everyone,

Is there a way to get/set the brush strength for the blur/sharpen/smudge tools?

Thanks

2

you’ll have to use batchPlay

here’s a starting point to better understand how

3 
const brushOptions = {
      _obj: "get",
      _target: [
        {
          _property: "currentToolOptions"
        },
        { _ref: "application" }
      ]
    };

I am looking at the currentToolOptions and see diameter, hardness, angle. But I do not see anything for strength

4 
async function getCurrentToolOptions () {
  const result = await batchPlay(
  [
     {
        "_obj": "get",
        "_target": [
           {
              "_property": "currentToolOptions"
           },
           {
              "_ref": "application",
              "_enum": "ordinal",
              "_value": "targetEnum"
           }
        ],
        "_options": {
           "dialogOptions": "dontDisplay"
        }
     }
  ],{
     "synchronousExecution": false
  });
  return result[0].currentToolOptions;
}

let ToolOptions = await getCurrentToolOptions();
console.log(ToolOptions.brush.hardness)
console.log(ToolOptions.flow)

EDIT : Sorry, I seem to misread your comment… what do you mean by strength?

you can set a unique known value to whatever property you want to work with and look for that value in the result.

5

Screenshot 2023-03-01 at 10.43.35 AM

If I select the blur tool on Photoshop, I want to be able to adjust the strength% of the brush!
Using your code snippet, I do not see ToolOptions.brush.strength

6

Internal names can be different from the ones used by the UI
as suggested, I set it to a unique value (e.g. “69”) and it turned out strength is flow

ToolOptions.flow