Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Working with more than one layer at a time

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Working with more than one layer at a time

Dale Glaser

2004-01-27, 12:28 am

PhotoShop in general makes you work with one layer at at time, and for
example, won't let you hold the Shift key down to select multiple
layers, even though someone in this thread says you can (or is there
something I don't know)

(You have to link layers first. It is intriguing that ImageReady CS
DOES now let you shift select multiple layers to work with them as a
group, which is perhaps a sign of things to come for PhotoShop)

Anyway, I wondered:

What ARE the ways that you can work with or affect more than one layer
at a time in PhotoShop? I started to collect and organize them and put
them up on my web site.

If you are interested, take a look, and let me know if I am missing
anything, or am in error about something I included. I think it is an
interesting topic to organize.

http://www.pacificsites.com/~dglase...psDaleMisc.html

Dale

heathrowe

2004-01-27, 10:28 am

Hey Dale nice collection of tips u have there...

Here's two more tips for ya. Both involve New Adjustment Layers

1. Create a 'New Adjustment Layer' as the upper most layer in a multi-layer
document, will affect all layers below it.

2. Create a New Adjustment Layer' as the upper most layer in a Layer Set of
a multi-layered document, but change the Set mode
from Pass Through to Normal, and the Adjustment Layer only affects the ones
inside the Set and not the ones below.

cheers
heathrowe
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quote:

> PhotoShop in general makes you work with one layer at at time, and for
> example, won't let you hold the Shift key down to select multiple
> layers, even though someone in this thread says you can (or is there
> something I don't know)
>
> (You have to link layers first. It is intriguing that ImageReady CS
> DOES now let you shift select multiple layers to work with them as a
> group, which is perhaps a sign of things to come for PhotoShop)
>
> Anyway, I wondered:
>
> What ARE the ways that you can work with or affect more than one layer
> at a time in PhotoShop? I started to collect and organize them and put
> them up on my web site.
>
> If you are interested, take a look, and let me know if I am missing
> anything, or am in error about something I included. I think it is an
> interesting topic to organize.
>
> http://www.pacificsites.com/~dglase...psDaleMisc.html
>
> Dale