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Selecting layers with more speed

Selecting layers with more speed - Photoshop Tutorial

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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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