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Stacking order and eyedropping a layer

Stacking order and eyedropping a layer - Photoshop Tutorial

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Stacking order and eyedropping a layer

In this exercise, we're going to add a few more layers to our composition. I'm going to show you how to change the stacking order, not only by dragging layers inside the Layers panel, but you can do it from the keyboard as well. I've saved my progress as The three glasses.psd found inside the 10_layers folder. I'm going to bring back up my Layers panel by pressing the F7 key. Now I can tell that this first glass is the biggest one, because I remember, it was called glass 142, blah, blah, blah. So I'm going to rename it glass 1 like so, but I'm not sure what's going on with glass 2 and glass 2 copy here, because the thumbnails are all the same size and there is no context. There is no indication of where the glasses are inside the composition, and that's because I change that one setting. You may recall. So I'm going to change it back, by going up to the fly out menu and choosing panel Options. Then I'm going to select Entire Document from Thumbnail Contents and click OK. Now I can…

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