Unlinking a clipping group or whatever the heck it actually is

Thanks for all the help on my "Slowed to a crawl" posting – turns out my main problem was having really BIG files – several of them, with lots of layers – opened at the same time. I’ve been merging layers to speed things up – so far seems to be working.

Newest problem. Somehow two layers got linked, and I don’t mean with that little chain in the box next to the eyeball. The upper layer is a color overlay set to "multiply" to color in the b&w line drawing under it. The name of the line drawing layer in the pallette has an underline. I can’t do any other effects to that line drawing layer – somehow the linkage seems to have the layer locked.

I’m going thru my Quickstart book & can’t find the answer. FYI, there’s no little bug straddling the line between the two layers, which seems to be the indicator for a clipping group, so I guess this isn’t a clipping group (whatever that is). Any suggestions?

Thanks for all the help on my "Slowed to a crawl" posting – turns out my main problem was having really BIG files – several of them, with lots of layers – opened at the same time. I’ve been merging layers to speed things up – so far seems to be working.

Thanks for all the help on my "Slowed to a crawl" posting – turns out my main problem was having really BIG files – several of them, with lots of layers – opened at the same time. I’ve been merging layers to speed things up – so far seems to be working.

Newest problem. Somehow two layers got linked, and I don’t mean with that little chain in the box next to the eyeball. The upper layer is a color overlay set to "multiply" to color in the b&w line drawing under it. The name of the line drawing layer in the pallette has an underline. I can’t do any other effects to that line drawing layer – somehow the linkage seems to have the layer locked.

I’m going thru my Quickstart book & can’t find the answer. FYI, there’s no little bug straddling the line between the two layers, which seems to be the indicator for a clipping group, so I guess this isn’t a clipping group (whatever that is). Any suggestions?

I don’t know what little bug you are talking about.

Sounds like a
Clipping Group to me. Is there a bent arrow pointing down on the upper layer?

Alt-click on the line between the Layers.

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sounds like the layer is a path; you can convert it to a selection

On Nov 28, 5:06 pm, edjh wrote:

I don’t know what little bug you are talking about.

Taking a second look at the QS book, it looks like that little bug is actually an icon representing a mouse click

Sounds like a
Clipping Group to me. Is there a bent arrow pointing down on the upper layer?

Yes there is. It points down from the upper layer to the one underneath. The name of the layer underneath is underlined, which I’ve never seen before.

Alt-click on the line between the Layers.

That activates the top layer & a menu box pops up with choices "Layer Options / Blending Properties" etc.