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Turn Off or Disable a Layer Mask

 

You can Shift-click on the Layer Mask thumbnail in the layers panel to turn off or disable the mask.  You’ll see a red X appear over the mask icon in the Layers panel.  The mask is actually still there but it’s disabled.  Shift-click on it again to enable it.

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  1. Shaznyc said on — August 13, 2009 @ 1:33 pm

    Great tip, this is one I’m going to use a lot.

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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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