painting etc on multiple layers simultaneously

Kevin Albers

Increasingly I work with multiple texture layers in photoshop..layers for diffuse, specular, normals etc. I would love to be able to use some tools on multiple layers at the same time. The most common use would be fixing seams on tiling textures using clone tools. Right now I end up fixing each layer seperately, which results in less than perfect correlation between my spec, normal, and diffuse maps.

Is there some way to paint/clone etc like this in newer versions of photoshop, or perhaps in another application like deep paint 3d?

Toomas

Myabe record your actions and then play them back?
I never done it tho.

CMB

I remember a checkbox somewhere that allow you to do you actions on all layers,i just don't remember where it is.

But recording your actions probably will work too.
Windows -> Actions
Then look around for how to record it,i've never done it myself.

Kevin Albers

Actions don't record brush strokes, so that won't work.

The "use all layers" button doesn't do what I'm trying to do, either.

Good suggestions, though. Thanks

Eric Chadwick

Body Paint 3D does this. You have to mess with the brush setings quite a bit to get decent paint, but you can paint to separate channels simultaneously.

Deep Paint 3D also does it, but I hated their paint tools back when I messed with it.