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Manage and organize layers in a complex project

Manage and organize layers in a complex project - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Photoshop Cert Prep

Manage and organize layers in a complex project

The next thing we have to talk about is how to group and organize layers. This of course is very important and useful especially for complex photoshop documents but they always like to ask about this in the exam so you would have to know how to do this properly. So let's just say in this case we need to have these two layers the raven's nest and the new layer so both text layers in a group and we want to be able to move them together easily. So what you need to do is to select both layers from the layers panel. Now you can use Command or Control key to add layers to your selection and these can be non-consecutive layers as well so I can skip the hill for instance and add fortress and with the same shortcut I can also remove it while if I let's say select the fortress layer and I want to select all the other layers on top of it I can just shift click on the layer on the top so that will select everything in between the two layers but for now I wanted to select these two layers…

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