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Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers

Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers - Photoshop Tutorial

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Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers

- As you get more comfortable working with layers, there are a few shortcuts that are going to help you to be much more efficient. I'm going to go to bridge and I want to select all four of these small square images. So I'll select the first one, hold down the shift key, and then select the last one. With all of them selected, instead of opening them each into their own document, I'm going to use the tools menu in bridge, select Photoshop, and then load files into Photoshop layers. Photoshop will open each one of these images and drop it into a single document. Now I didn't load them into the harvest image that I had selected, but at least they're all in one document, so I can drag and drop them together. In order to do this, I could use my keyboard shortcut that I set up earlier or use window, arrange and then tile. I'll click on the harvest image for a moment to see which layer is targeted. It's the greens frame that's…

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