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[CS6]
Hi and welcome.
My name's Julieanne Kost, and in the next few minutes we're going to talk about
many of the enhancements that were made in Photoshop CS6
to the layers panel.
I don't know about you, but I spend probably 90% of my time in the layers panel,
so all of these shortcuts are just fantastic additions, in my opinion.
The first one that we'll start with is actually a new panel,
but it works in tandem with the layers panel,
and that's the properties panel.
And you'll notice that when I click on a layer--for example, here I'll click on
a curves adjustment layer, the options for that panel appear
right there in the properties panel.
But what's really nice--because before we had the adjustments panel
and it kind of had this dual toggle mode and then we also had the masks panel--
now we really have just the properties panel, which will automatically swap out
based on what you click on.
When I come down here to, say, a layer that has a photograph on it,
I get the options for that.
When I go over to the mask, I get the options for the mask panel.
So for me it's really convenient having all of the properties for
whatever it is I'm clicking on right above that in the layers panel.
So I'm super excited about that.
The other thing that's nice about the properties panel is that you can actually
make this as large as you want.
I can scoot this out, and then we can click back on that curves adjustment layer,
and you can see how much larger that makes the curve
so that I can make those really fine adjustments.
Obviously, on a bigger screen we would be able to see this even larger.
Okay, let's go ahead and I'm going to double-click on the properties panel
just to close that for a minute.
Let's go ahead and select a different layer.
Now, I'm going to click down here on this smart object layer,
because I want to show you another great addition,
and that is when you're transforming your images, whether you're making them
larger or smaller and whether or not you're using image size or free transform.
Let me just show you; when I do a command or control T, there's now
and interpolation right here.
So I can switch from, maybe, Bicubic Smoother to Sharper
or, better yet, I can just set this to Bicubic Automatic, and that way if I make the image larger
Photoshop will automatically choose the correct algorithm and if I make it smaller
it will choose the correct algorithm.
Now, I'll escape out of here for a minute because I do want to go into the
preferences and show you that this is also an application-wide preference here
for image interpolation.
So I've got mine set to the bicubic automatic.
All right, since we were on the topic of smart objects--
it used to be that when you were in the middle of transforming a smart object,
the smart object itself--this icon in the layers panel--it disappeared,
and so it caused a little bit of confusion for customers.
So now it's really nice--when I'm free transforming, that icon just stays put.
All right, I'll go ahead and escape out of there,
but while we're talking about visual feedback on the layers panel,
I'll just point out that this layer right here has a new icon, and
that is the icon for the Blend If sliders.
I just double-clicked on it; that's how I got the Layer Style dialog box.
You can see that I've made a change here to the underlying layer.
In previous versions, there was no real way to know or--certainly I was never
remembering whether or not I had used these, so it's really nice to have that
visual clue right here.
In addition, you'll notice, like, the layer underneath it--you'll see that I've got it hidden.
The eye icon is not toggled on.
But if I click on that layer, it will actually show me the correct blend mode
and opacity, which is really nice.
Photoshop wouldn't have done that in the past.
While we're on the topic of blend modes, let's just scroll down and
select these four layers right here.
Well, I can now change not only the opacity for all of my selected layers
but also the blend mode for all of my selected layers at once.
So I'll just undo that, but that's going to come in really handy.
While we're talking about making changes to multiple layers,
you'll notice that I can lock multiple selected layers at once as well.
And if I right mouse click on the eye icon,
you'll notice that I can also change the color of multiple layers at once.
Now, one of the little things that's always bothered me in the last few versions
once we were able to select multiple layers,
is that I could use the keyboard shortcut command or control J
to duplicate a layer, but I couldn't use it to duplicate multiple layers
or layer groups.
But now I can, so for example, if I select these three layers right up here
and I want to duplicate them, command or control J will duplicate all three at once.
All right. Let me undo that.
I'll come down here to this group, and again I can use command or control J
and you can see now that I've duplicated that entire group with a single keystroke.
So that's certainly going to save me some time.
Now, as my layers panel gets more and more complicated,
it becomes more difficult, especially on a small screen,
to find the layers that I'm looking for.
You'll notice up here at the top of the layers panel we can now search
through all of our different layers, and there's a variety of different ways
that you can search.
I think probably one of the most effective ways is going to be by kind.
So if I just want to see all of my pixel-based layers,
I can quickly search and filter on them.
Or if I just want to see adjustment layers or any of my type layers--
and look, that type layer was actually in a group that's not even visible,
and yet Photoshop found it.
Photoshop can also filter for my shape layers,
and it can filter for any smart objects.
So you can see that finding the exact layer I need
is going to be much easier in Photoshop CS6.
Okay, let's switch over to this next file, because I want to show you
that you can now clip layers to a group.
So I have a group here.
It's just the three circles, and I'd like to duplicate this layer zero,
so I'll use command J to duplicate it.
And then I'm going to reposition it on top of the group outside of the group.
But I want to display this copy.
In fact, I want to display this copy at 100% but only within those circles.
So I want to clip layer zero copy to the group.
In order to do this, I'll hold down the option or the alt key and simply click,
in the lines between the two layers,
and now I've got a single layer clipped to a group.
And while they were making changes to groups,
they also added the ability to apply a layer style to a group.
So if I select the group, come down to the effects icon,
and want to add a stroke around each one of these circles,
we can make this rather large just to make sure we can see it.
And now you can see that that effect--I didn't have to apply it to each
individual shape layer; I could simply apply it to the group itself.
Now, as I add more effects and styles and groups,
one of the nice things to be able to do would be able to close those all at once.
So if you option-click on the disclosure triangle here,
you'll notice that it will toggle all of the effects throughout
your entire document closed at one time.
And if you're ever in the position where, when you're working with effects--
like right down here--if you wanted to actually rasterize that effect
into the layer, in previous versions of Photoshop
you could always right mouse click and you could rasterize the layer style,
but it would separate it out into maybe 2 or 3 layers.
Now I can simply click Rasterize Layer Style, and Photoshop will go ahead
and rasterize the style into the pixel-based document.
So that's quite nice.
There's fewer layers that I would have to manage that way.
And, finally, the last keyboard shortcut--I'll just move up to the next layer here.
You know, you could always--if you had the Move tool selected or any of these
top six tools, you could tap the keyboard shortcut, like 4 to get 40%
or you could type 55 to get 55%, but there was actually no keyboard shortcut
to get it to 0%, but now there is.
You can tap zero to get it to 100% or tap 00 quickly to go ahead and decrease
the opacity of the layer to 0%,
basically hiding it but not having to use the eye icon to do so.
So as you can see, there have been a ton of small enhancements
made to the layers panel, which is going to save me a ton of time
and make me much more efficient in Photoshop CS6.
My name is Julieanne Kost. Thanks for watching.
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