How can I change the color of a layer?

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Hey, guys!
Here I am with another newbie question - I guess haha…

I was playing in order to learn more about UXP Development for Photoshop.
I was trying to change the color of diverse kinds of layers based on input from the user.

I was trying with the following layers: solid color, text, background, and vector.
I couldn’t find a property or method that would help me with any of these layers.
Is there a way to do this? When I needed to write a script a few months ago without uxp I’ve used event listener to achieve similar results.

Can I still use this method? Or is there e better way to achieve it? :slight_smile:
Thank you.

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You can use BatchPlay to achieve all that. If you’re already familiar with ActionManager code (the output from Script Listener), that’ll help as BatchPlay is quite the same just with a more modern syntax. You can use Alchemist to inspect stuff and learn how the syntax works.

Regarding the color, I did something similar in one of my plugins a while ago:

  • Solid Color: they have a color property you can set
  • Vector: Vector layers are actually solid color layers (with vector masks)
  • Text: has a color property inside of the TextStyle property
  • Pixel layer: for example set a “Color Overlay” layerstyle
  • Background: Can’t have layerstyles -> a) Select all + fill or b) Edit-> Adjustments -> GradientMap (with one color only)… I’m sure there are more ways to get the result.
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Thank you so much! :slight_smile: I’ll look for all of these later.