Layer Mask
Shift + Click on Layer Mask : Enable/Disable Layer Mask
Alt + Click on Layer Mask : Toggle Mask Visibility / display mask as a grayscale image
Alt + Shift + Click on Layer Mask : Display mask as Red Quick Mask.
\ (backslash) : Display mask as Red Quick Mask.
Ctrl + Click Mask : Load Mask As Selection
Ctrl + I (when layer mask active) : inverts the color of a layer mask.
Alt + New Layer Mask Icon : it applies the layer mask as black.
Ctrl + G (Photoshop CS and earlier) : To create a clipping mask.
Shift + Ctrl + G (Photoshop CS and earlier) : To release the clipping mask.
Ctrl + Alt + G (Photoshop CS2 and higher) : To create a clipping mask/To release the clipping mask.
Hold Alt + Click between layer : To create a clipping mask/To release the clipping mask. (CS 6 can apply to layer group).
Selection
Ctrl + click directly on the layer's preview thumbnail or layer mask thumbnail in the Layers palette : To select the contents of a layer.
Ctrl + Shift + click directly on the layer's preview thumbnail or layer mask thumbnail in the Layers palette : to add additional layers to the selection.
Ctrl + Alt + click directly on the layer's preview thumbnail or layer mask thumbnail in the Layers palette : to subtract another layer from the selection.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + click directly on the layer's preview thumbnail or layer mask thumbnail in the Layers palette : to create the intersection between layers.
Choose Layer
Shift key + click on the bottom layer (or vice versa) : select multiple layers. This will select the top layer, the bottom layer, and all the layers in between.
Shift + Alt + [ : select multiple layers that are all directly below each other.
Shift + Alt + ] : select multiple layers that are all directly above each other.
Ctrl + click on each layer you want to select : To select multiple layers that are not directly above or below each other.
Hold Ctrl + click the object on canvas : Auto select layer.
Hold Ctrl + Shift + click the object on canvas : To select more than one layer.
Alt + Shift + . : select until top layer.
Alt + Shift + , : select until bottom layer.
Traversing / Navigating Layer
Alt + [ : go to down layer.
Alt + ] : go to up layer.
Alt + . : go to top layer.
Alt + , : go to bottom layer.
New Layer
Ctrl + J : New Layer Via Copy
Ctrl + Shift + J : New Layer Via Cut.
Shift + Ctrl + N : to create a new layer
Shift + Ctrl + Alt + N : to create a new layer without new layer dialog
Ctrl + click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette : add the new layer below the currently selected layer.
Group and Merge
Ctrl + G : Group Layers
Ctrl + Shift + G : Ungroup Layers.
Ctrl + Shift + C (with a selection) : copies a merged view of all visible layers onto the clipboard.
Ctrl + E : Merge Layers / Merges selected layer with the layer directly below it. If multiple layers are selected, only those will be merged.
Crtl + Shift + E : Merge Visible / Merges all visible layers into one. Not recommended practice in typical photo editing because you’ll lose layer information.
Ctrl + Alt + E : Stamp Down / Merges all selected layers into one new layer.
Ctrl + click the disclosure triangle next to a layer Group : to expand or collapse all layer Groups in the document.
Alt + click the disclosure triangle : to expand collapse all groups nested within the current group.
Right click the Group’s disclosure triangle and choose "Close/Open this Group" or "Close/Open all Other Groups".
Ctrl + Alt + A : Select All Layer (except the locked Background layer).
Ctrl + \ : switch from Layer color to mask.
Ctrl + ` : switch from Mask to Layer color.
Ctrl + [ : move to lower layer / backward.
Ctrl + ] : move to upper layer / forward.
Ctrl + Shift + [ : move to the lowest layer
Ctrl + Shift + ] : move to the most top layer
Shift + TAB, hide all panels/palette (Layers, Channels,...)
When on a layer, tap the "/" (slash key) : to toggle the Lock (Transparency, Pixels, Position, or All) option on and off.
Alt + clicking on the Layer Visibility icon : all the other layers are hidden / show.
Shift + +/- : select the Move Tool (V) first. cycle through all the different layer blend modes.
Alt + Click on ( layer mask / vector mask / layer effect / layer / layer group ) then drag drop to other layer : Copy an existing layer object or replace to other layer object.
Changing The Opacity Of A Layer
- make sure you have the Move Tool selected by pressing the letter V.
- Type 1 = 10%, 15 = 15%, 25 = 25%, "5" for 50% opacity, "8" for 80% opacity, "3" for 30% opacity, 0 = 100%, and so on.
- make sure you have the Move Tool selected by pressing the letter V.
- Hold Shift and Type 1 = 10%, 15 = 15%, 25 = 25%, "5" for 50% fill, "8" for 80% fill, "3" for 30% fill, 0 = 100%, and so on.
- Selecting a layer that is linked will show the link icon on all the other layers to which it is linked.
- To unlink a single layer from a link set, simply select the layer and click the link icon. If there were other linked layers, they remain linked.
- If none of the layers selected contain linked and you click the link icon, all layers become linked - creating a new link set.
- If the layers selected contain only linked layers, regardless of whether they're all in the same link sets, clicking the link icon unlinks everything selected.
- If the layers selected contain at least some linked layers within the selection, plus any number of unlinked layers, clicking the link icon extends the link set to include the unlinked layers in the selection.
- If the layers selected contains linked layers from two or more link sets plus at least one unlinked layer, everything in the selection gets put into a "new" linked set.
- Layers can only belong to one link set at a time.
Alt + Click trash can icon (when you pick Layer group) : To delete the Group and all of it’s contents while bypassing the dialog.
Ctrl + drag a Group to the trash can icon : to delete a Group without deleting it’s contents.
Ctrl + Alt + Click trash can icon (when you pick Layer group) : to delete a Group without deleting it’s contents.
Alt + Click trash can icon (when you pick Layer mask) : to delete layer mask without dialog and apply masking.
Alt + Click trash can icon (when you pick Layer color/Layer preview thumbnail) : to delete layer without dialog.
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