Create a new document from a layer or group, Show or hide a layer, group, or style, View layers and groups within a group – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Layers
Last updated 1/10/2010
Create a new document from a layer or group
1
Select a layer or group from the Layers panel.
2
Choose Duplicate Layer or Duplicate Group from the Layers menu or the Layers panel menu.
3
Choose New from the Document pop-up menu, and click
OK.
Show or hide a layer, group, or style
❖
Do one of the following in the Layers panel:
•
Click the eye icon
next to a layer, group, or layer effect to hide its content in the document window. Click in the
column again to redisplay the content. To view the eye icon for styles and effects, click the Reveal Effects In panel
icon
.
•
Choose Show Layers or Hide Layers from the Layers menu.
•
Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac
OS) an eye icon
to display only the contents of that layer or group.
Photoshop remembers the visibility states of all layers before hiding them. If you don’t change the visibility of any
other layer, Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-clicking (Mac
OS) the same eye icon restores the original visibility
settings.
•
Drag through the eye column to change the visibility of multiple items in the Layers panel.
Note: Only visible layers are printed.
View layers and groups within a group
❖
Do one of the following to open the group:
•
Click the triangle to the left of the folder icon
.
•
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac
OS) the triangle to the left of the folder icon and choose Open This
Group.
•
Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac
OS) the triangle to open or close a group and the groups nested within it.
Sample from all visible layers
The default behavior of the Magic Wand, Smudge, Blur, Sharpen, Paint Bucket, Clone Stamp, and Healing Brush tools
is to sample color only from pixels on the active layer. This means you can smudge or sample in a single layer.
❖
To smudge or sample pixels from all visible layers with these tools, select Sample All Layers from the options bar.
Change transparency preferences
1
In Windows, choose Edit > Preferences
> Transparency & Gamut; in Mac
OS, choose Photoshop
> Preferences
>
Transparency & Gamut.
2
Choose a size and color for the transparency checkerboard, or choose None for Grid Size to hide the transparency
checkerboard.
3
Click
OK.