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Auto-Select and the Move tool

Auto-Select and the Move tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Auto-Select and the Move tool

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- [Narrator] In this movie, we're going to talk about the auto select check box. Which is available up here in the options bar any time that the move tool is active. In the old days it used to be turned off by default. Nowadays it's turned on. Now a lot of folks love this feature, it drives me absolutely nuts. And so my job really is not to convince you one way or other, but just to make you aware that it's there. And so it's job is to automatically select whatever layer is underneath your cursor. So lets say for example I switch to the shark layer, but I really want to move the screws around. Then all I would have to do is drag on a screw, and notice that automatically selects the screws layer here inside the layers panel. So it's kind of a form of intelligence, if you will. I don't want to move those screws however. They were already in the right place. So ill press control+Z, or command+z on the mac, to undo that…

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