Trouble Moving Layers In PS

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Dee
Jul 21, 2006
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Not sure why THIS is happening! It just started not long ago:

Say I have 4 layes to a document and one of those layers is the ‘white’ background (turned into a layer), and I want to move another layer, say a drawing of a cat …. when I click on that layer (the cat) and then try to move it, the ‘white’ background layer moves instead! UGH!!!

I’ve also tried clicking directly onto the document, on the ‘cat’ … and I know I have the cat, cause it shows ‘cat’ on the mouse …. but if I move it then, it STILL moves the white of the background layer!

What’s going on here? Am I missing something? Could it be because the ‘background’ is a ‘layer’ … and I need to keep it the ‘background’? Will that keep it in place? If so … then how can I take a pre-existing document, where I’ve all ready turned the ‘background’ into a ‘layer’ and return it to a ‘background’? Is there a way to do that?

Thanks a bunch everybody!
Dee

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edjh
Jul 21, 2006
Dee Dee wrote:
Not sure why THIS is happening! It just started not long ago:
Say I have 4 layes to a document and one of those layers is the ‘white’ background (turned into a layer), and I want to move another layer, say a drawing of a cat …. when I click on that layer (the cat) and then try to move it, the ‘white’ background layer moves instead! UGH!!!
I’ve also tried clicking directly onto the document, on the ‘cat’ … and I know I have the cat, cause it shows ‘cat’ on the mouse …. but if I move it then, it STILL moves the white of the background layer!

What’s going on here? Am I missing something? Could it be because the ‘background’ is a ‘layer’ … and I need to keep it the ‘background’? Will that keep it in place? If so … then how can I take a pre-existing document, where I’ve all ready turned the ‘background’ into a ‘layer’ and return it to a ‘background’? Is there a way to do that?
Thanks a bunch everybody!
Dee
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Dee
Jul 21, 2006
"edjh" wrote in message
Dee Dee wrote:
Not sure why THIS is happening! It just started not long ago:
Say I have 4 layes to a document and one of those layers is the ‘white’ background (turned into a layer), and I want to move another layer, say a drawing of a cat …. when I click on that layer (the cat) and then try to move it, the ‘white’ background layer moves instead! UGH!!!
I’ve also tried clicking directly onto the document, on the ‘cat’ … and I know I have the cat, cause it shows ‘cat’ on the mouse …. but if I move it then, it STILL moves the white of the background layer!
What’s going on here? Am I missing something? Could it be because the ‘background’ is a ‘layer’ … and I need to keep it the ‘background’? Will that keep it in place? If so … then how can I take a pre-existing document, where I’ve all ready turned the ‘background’ into a ‘layer’ and return it to a ‘background’? Is there a way to do that?
Thanks a bunch everybody!
Dee
In the Options Bar, uncheck Auto Select.


Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

Thanks Ed … I’ll try that. 🙂

Dee
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Dee
Jul 24, 2006
"edjh" wrote in message
Dee Dee wrote:
Not sure why THIS is happening! It just started not long ago:
Say I have 4 layes to a document and one of those layers is the ‘white’ background (turned into a layer), and I want to move another layer, say a drawing of a cat …. when I click on that layer (the cat) and then try to move it, the ‘white’ background layer moves instead! UGH!!!
I’ve also tried clicking directly onto the document, on the ‘cat’ … and I know I have the cat, cause it shows ‘cat’ on the mouse …. but if I move it then, it STILL moves the white of the background layer!
What’s going on here? Am I missing something? Could it be because the ‘background’ is a ‘layer’ … and I need to keep it the ‘background’? Will that keep it in place? If so … then how can I take a pre-existing document, where I’ve all ready turned the ‘background’ into a ‘layer’ and return it to a ‘background’? Is there a way to do that?
Thanks a bunch everybody!
Dee
In the Options Bar, uncheck Auto Select.


Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

Ed,

OK .. did that, we’ll see how that works. 🙂

Thanks,
Dee

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