The Interface

LayerWise lives in a single Photoshop panel that adapts to its size: docked and narrow, it shows one column; floating and wide, it spreads the wizards over two.

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Home

Every workflow starts here.

• Your renders come from. Pick the render engine: V-Ray, Corona or FStorm. This sets which element names and templates LayerWise uses, and it’s remembered.
• Create new document. Build a new PSD from a template and your render output. See Create new document.
• Update renders. Swap new renders into the open PSD, or merge region renders into it. See Update renders.
• Tools, Templates and Elements. Shortcuts to Tools, Templates and Render elements, with a count for the current engine.
• Getting started. A short checklist for your first days. Items tick off as you do them; hide the list with ✕.

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The menu

The menu button in the header opens: Every screen has a back button at the top left, and its main actions sit at the bottom, always in reach.

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Wizards

Both workflows are step-by-step wizards with a step bar at the top. Nothing changes in Photoshop until you press the wizard’s final button.

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Progress and cancelling

While a job runs, an overlay shows what LayerWise is doing, how far along it is, and a Cancel button. After a couple of seconds Photoshop also shows its own progress bar, where Esc cancels too. Every change LayerWise makes appears in the History panel as a named step (for example Replacing Reflection), so Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z undoes it step by step.

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Update banner

When a new version is out, a green banner appears under the header. What’s new lists the changes, and ✕ hides the banner until the next version.

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Messages you may see