From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
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Working with layer groups and the Frame tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
Working with layer groups and the Frame tool
- [Instructor] As you work with more and more layers, one of the things that happens is that your layers panel might get a bit out of control. So in order to organize your layers, you can use layer groups. Not only do layer groups help organize your layers, you can also use them to move all of your layers at one time or scale them or change opacity or blend mode, even add a special effect by adding layer effects to groups. So I'm going to start in the layers panel by selecting all four of these small images. I've got the strawberries targeted. I'm going to hold down the Shift key and click on tomato. Then to create a layer group I can choose layer and then group layers or I can use the keyboard shortcut Command + G on Mac or Control + G on windows or from the layers panel, we can just drag these layers onto the folder icon, and that will create a new group. The group is collapsed by default but you can use the disclosure…
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