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LiveDocs to the Rescue!

 

Sometimes you will find that the Help feature may not offer complete assistance on a specific topic.  Documentation for software often changes and expands, and LiveDocs is Adobe’s answer to this problem.  If you go to www.adobe.com/support/documentation, you can access online documentation on all of your Photoshop topics.  The good part about this documentation is that it is developed on a collaborative level, allowing the community to chime in on questions and answers to the topics at hand.

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  1. Reggie Barton said on — September 2, 2009 @ 10:56 am

    I can’t stand the whole community online based docs being the “defualt” in the adobe apps. It generally leads to a lot of heated discussion and no real “answers” I miss the default being the help built into the apps. A lot of the time I’m in the field, on location, no internet access and I need just the basic answers. I wish there was a clear option to get back to basics sometimes.

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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