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Loading A Layer Selection Has Changed

 

For years now, when you wanted to put a selection around everything on a particular layer, you would Command-click (PC: Control-click) on that layer in the Layers palette, and it pretty much didn’t matter where you clicked, as long as you clicked. Well, in CS2, it matters. You now have to click directly on the layer’s thumbnail to get the selection to load. So what happens if you Command-click (PC: Control-click) on the other part of a layer (the layer’s name for example)? It highlights that layer, so you can select multiple layers at a time.

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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).
by Colin Smith

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