Command-Control works for me, with Auto Select OFF.
thanks for the suggestion ed, but when i click the image where i want to select the layer w/ the command and the control button, i still just get a huge list of the layers to choose from. the file im working on has over a hundred layers and some are duplicated many times, and many layers have the same name. i didnt make the file so its not useful to select from the big long list. im sure there HAS to be a way to easily select a layer!
shar
Control-click works for me (easily tested by moving the layer). And the layer immediately under the cursor is listed immediately next to the cursor so no moving of the cursor up or down is necessary.
Of course — as always — anything with less than 50% opacity won’t be selected and instead the next layer down with more than 50% opacity will be selected instead.
i’m experiencing the same problem. it’s not that the layers above the layer we’re trying to select are less than 50% opacity, they’re simply not visible.
for example… take an layered document you may have and create a new layer at the top and fill it with a solid color. then turn off visibility and try to command+click and layer underneath. the contextual menu isn’t and option when you have hundreds of layers. in PS7, it would ignore the hidden layers… with CS, it selects them.
photoshop has worked the other way for years and years and for some of us, this new selection method is horribly time consuming. please, please, please tell me there’s a way around this.
monkey7… works as usual here (i.e. works for me). (10.3.5 + PSCS)
Ronald, that means that you DO NOT see hidden layers in the drop-down list?
Command-click or Control-Option-Command-click takes me directly to the layer (assuming it’s above 50% opacity).
….that means that you DO NOT see hidden layers in the drop-down list?
Correct. Hidden layers do not appear in the contextual menu’s layer list, nor do layers with less than 50% opacity.
I don’t get hidden layers in the list either. As far as I can tell this function works exactly as it always has in previous versions. Trashing prefs might be in order.
ronald:
feel your pain! and im in a way sort of glad you are having a similar experience, because i thought i was the only one… BUT… this is so weird. the problem seems to be intermittent! at two different locations and on two different computers i had the selection problem, so ive been using pshop 7 because it was so annoying. i started a new project at home, and thought i’d give CS another try -and now, for whatever reason, i can select layers using command and no problem! i have no idea why, i didnt do anything different. maybe its a bug? does adobe know about this? perhaps it is a prefs problem? can you re-install? sorry i cant be more helpful. and thank you to all those who replied! ~s
believe the problem is isolated to "shapes". regardless of opacity or whether it’s hidden, it always selects shapes first.
if a layer is hidden or less than 50% opacity, it still shows up in the contextual menu.
hopefully this will help you work around the problem. personally, i’ve just gone back to PS7. 🙁
