Selecting all layers

[WarmingTheCurb]

How do you select all the layers?

 

[anepu]

I believe that only one layer at a time can selected in Photoshop, which makes it the active layer.

What is it that you trying to accomplish?

anepu

 

[tranquil222]

I think i know what youre asking. Photoshop could select all layers, theoretically, just the way youd select a whole bunch of files all at once. But the difference between that and Photoshop is that Photoshop has no idea what to apply to all of the layers. So it has some advanced "select all" features. Linking is just one of those features. If you link one or more layers, then when you move one of the layers, the linked layers move the same direction, the same distance. Another trick that I learned from Mark is that if you have the Text tool active and your active layer is a text layer, and then you go and change the font while holding down shift, that same font is applied to all text layers in your document. There are many other ways that Photoshop applies certain things to all or selected layers...if anyone can step in and enumerate more of them that would be nice. Thats all I could think of for now. Hope you can use this info.........

 

[WarmingTheCurb]

I'm just trying to center 2 layers of text.

How do you link layers, like you were describing?

 

[tranquil222]

Ok. First you need to link your text layers. To link them, press the left mouse key in the middle box in the layers pallette(fig. 1). This should add a little chain in that box. Then you need to activate the layer that you want all centering to be relative to. To do this, just click on that layer to highlight it. Then select the move tool(fig. 2). There is a menu now on the top of the screen under all of the File menus(fig. 3). This gives you options of aligning them to the top of the highlighted layer, the bottom, or the middle(this seems to just make the text layers go on top of one another, I don't know why?). Your horizontal alignment options are center left justify or right. Click on these buttons with your relative layer active and it should center them automatically, in relation to your active layer. I don't know what the greyed out options to the right of fig. 3 are for, but maybe someone could step in.

 

[WarmingTheCurb]

I tried that and it only centers one layer at a time, considering I did it right. But thanks anyways.