[Francis]

You know how you can do that in Photoshop 7 and select whatever is on that layer? How do you do that in CS2? They seem to have gotten rid of that feature. Does anyone know of a quick shortcut key that selects all the stuff on a specific layer? Driving me nuts. I seem to be driven nuts easily.
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[eyewoo]

You have to have the cursor sitting on the brush symbol before ctrl-click. I believe in CS it could be anywhere on the layer in the LAYERS pallette, but in CS2, it has to be on the brush symbol.
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[Francis]

thanks Phil - do you mean the layer thumbnail? I wasn't sure exactly if that's what you meant, but doing that seems to do the trick.

In any case, works now. Sorry for the interruption. Please carry on.
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[iandredd]

How come you don't use thumbnails in the layer pallette Eyewoo?

[eyewoo]

For two reasons... They take up too much space... Some of my illustrations have hundreds of layers... and most of my layers have just a bit of stuff on them and the thumbnail is not helpful in figuring out what's there.

Labeling the layer is much better for me, or simply using ctrl-alt right click to jump to the layer and make it active is the way I do it. I use ctrl-alt right click all the time...
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[B0b]

you can have Photoshop just display whats on the layer - so if you only have a small detail on a layer it will thumbnail just that small detail

if you goto Pallet Options in the Layer Pallet and select under Thumbnail Contents - Layer Bounds, it works out whats on the layer and displays it

that way it won't show what looks like an empty layer, i find it useful when i'm designing websites or doing photo editing..

Grouping Layers is a big help in managing alot of layers as well

[eyewoo]

[Francis]

OK here's a new one. Has anyone had this happen?

In CS2, my keyboard shortcuts will suddenly change. For instance, instead of changing brush size, [ and ] will now cycle through the layer palette, highlighting the layer above or below depending on if I am hitting [ or ]. WTF. And if I hit CTRL - T to access the free transform tool, it creates a copy and transforms *that*. WTF. CTRL- S opens up a "save as" dialogue instead of just saving. WTF. WTF??!?

BTW that layer bounds tip was useful, thanks B0b.
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[eyewoo]

That happens quite a lot for me as well... everything just gets out of whack. it happens so much - maybe 2 or 3 times a day - that I found a quick fix that solves the problem without having to reboot. Just grab anything on any layer and hold down ctrl/alt to dup and move it... then simply hit ctrl/Z to undo it. That also seems to get all the shortcuts back in sync... wierd...
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[Awetopsy]

are you guys using MACs or PCs?

edit: Eyewoo, It sounds like you're on PC. When was the last time you reinstalled windows? is your photoshop computer the same computer you surf/game/whatever with? Over time windows just seems to get tired and photoshop suffers for it.

Kinda sounds you need a fresh start.

[Francis]

Dang Phil, I'm just gonna email you directly from now on! That worked.

Awetopsy - I'm on a PC. Yeah Windows just sludges up after a while, and I've had this PC since 2003. Probably about due for a coronary.
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[eyewoo]

Awetopsy ... on a PC and actually I reinstalled my WinXP about a month ago. I had a disaster with a blue screen reboot that couldn't find the OS, so had to do the reinstall. the PShop problem did not go away. In fact, as I recall, it was never a probelm with any earlier versions of PShop... just CS2.
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[Francis]

Yeah but at least CS2 is slow.
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[Novacaptain]

My keyboard shortcuts sometimes go crazy too, but that's because i have several languages mapped to it and through some fluke manage to switch from english to portuguese or swedish. Resetting the icon back to english usually restores normality.
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