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Working with Auto-Select

Working with Auto-Select - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working with Auto-Select

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and for beginners it can be frustrating as well. that in the latest version of Photoshop, you'll notice up here in the options bar that auto select is enabled. Now what auto select does, is it basically automatically selects Right? it automatically selects that layer. and this is precisely one of the issues that we run into. You know, I clicked on the frying pan, You know, I clicked on the frying pan, but it actually selected the "In the Kitchen" text. And it's simply because, you know, maybe if I clicked down here a little bit further, now it actually selected the color fill layer, now it actually selected the color fill layer, if I click on the logo. if I click on the logo. So, you can see what's happening here. You know, it really depends on what's going on here, and how your layers are stacked. So, here's the issue. So, here's the issue. What I like to do is you could turn off auto select. And that's going to take you back to the traditional…

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