Choosing Your Layers Visually

This keyboard shortcut will allow you to click inside the display window and automatically select the layer of the object you click on.

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Comment by Jim Mneymneh | March 20, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

 

Fantastic! That is the coolest trick in a long time! Thanks for sharing! BTW: If you press SHIFT + CMD/CTRL you can select more than one layer at a time…

 

Comment by Henriko | May 23, 2009 @ 10:44 am

 

Now that is realy simple.
But watch this:
If you try that with a a layer inside of a group, it will only select the group that is containing the layer.
So do an ALT + Rightclick and you will get the layer inside of a group!
ALT + Rightclick for mac Users:
Option and CTRL (not CMD) + Klick.

And even better if your current tool is some selection tool, you can press CMD + CTRL + ALT and Klick and it gets you the layer without changing you tool.

NOW thats insane! Mail me if you liked it!

 

Comment by Type-Style | August 27, 2009 @ 6:51 am

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