So I'll ask two versions, one for the tl;dr crowd and one for the detail-oriented folk.
The short version:
Is there a way to make a script that'll reveal a hidden layer and select it. For me it would be the next layer up from the currently selected layer — like photoshop's Select Forward Layer ( option+] ), except that that function skips hidden layers.
The long version:
I have many many files that have 4 layers each, and I'd like to align those 4 layers by hand. First I need the bottom 2 layers visible to align them, and then Layers #2 and 3, then Layers #3 and 4.
I have the top layers set to Difference blending mode, for aligning purposes. So my workflow is this:
1) Align two layers, by hand.
2) Change upper layer's blending mode from Difference to Normal
3) Make visible the next layer above
4) Select that layer
5) Repeat
I know it's not much, but I'm doing this hundreds of times a session. It would be a huge time saver to automate this process.
I don't know much about scripting though, so I'm totally in the dark on how to go about doing this. In the end, would I be able to activate the script by a hotkey?
Thanks ahead of time for your help — hope it all works out!
-B