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Selecting layers with more speed - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC for Photographers: Intermediate
Selecting layers with more speed
One of the challenges of working with a document which has a lot of layers is selecting the correct layer to work on. And so here, I want to highlight a few short cuts you can use which will help you to select, target and move your layers. These are photographs that i captured of front doors of these interesting beach shacks that I came across in the UK while I was on a trip. And I was fascinated by the locks and the colors. So, I got up close and I captured a number of images. And I wanted to create a layout grid with all of these different colors. And you can see the end result here. Yet what I want to do next is mix things up a bit. I want to move a few images around. So here, let's say that we want to move the orange layer to another position. Well, I could of course go to the Layers panel. I could look for the layer which is named orange. I could try to find that layer and then click and move it. In this case I selected the wrong orange layer. Well that often happens when we have…
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Shortcuts for copying layers and layer style effects6m 1s
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Changing fill and opacity2m 54s
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Creating layer clipping masks3m 37s
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Using layers to create a two-image layout7m 10s
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Shortcuts for creating new layers2m 22s
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Increasing the size of the Layers panel2m 18s
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Selecting layers with more speed3m 25s
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An advanced way to select and reorder layers3m 10s
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Merging and flattening layers down3m 44s
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Merging all layers to the top1m 47s
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