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Grouping layers

Grouping layers - Photoshop Tutorial

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Grouping layers

- Now with all these elements on our digital canvas as we can see, we have quite a bunch of layers here in our layers pallet. In fact, it's so many layers that we have to start to scroll in order to see them all. I'd say, lets tidy up this layer pallet a little bit and a great tool to do that is using groups. So if I select different layers, lets select all the bushes for example, and I do that by clicking and holding the shift key while clicking on the separate layers. We now have a multi selection of layers and here down in the layers pallet, we find this little folder icon. Create a new group. Lets do that, we have now have a group and all our bushes are collected in the group. If we click the little arrow here we can expand the group, can now see the bushes but maybe we do not have to see them all the time. We can simply double click the name here of the group and call it Bushes. Lets also do the same with the elements of the tree here so, our tree is combined of four different…

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