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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.