Chris this kind of approximation and blindness is only discouraging
Hey – don’t shoot the messenger! As another user, I had a quick look to see what was happening, and perhaps help you. Then I said I’d investigate further. Then came the Bank Holiday!!
Ctrl+E does still work for me. I use it daily to "Merge Down" the selected layer into the one below.
Ctrl+E used to merge "Linked Layers" and now merging "Linked Layers" is not more possible: this is a fact!
"Merge Linked" is not something I previously needed. But I’ve checked and yes that’s still there too – albeit under another name.
What has changed in CS2 is the way that you "link" the layers. Now this is achieved by Ctrl Clicking the layers you wish to link. When more than one layer is selected the Ctrl+E command becomes "Merge Layers".
Quite a bit has changed in the layers department. I see there is a "Group layers" command. This is not something I’ve ever used in my own work, so I will leave it to someone more knowledgeable in this department to step in with advice.
"Alt + E + A + 1 (9, H, V)" it was for rotating Layers (and is not working anymore!)
True. This is one of those very handy (undocumented) keyboard shortcuts which has changed in CS2. You just have to adapt slightly.
In this particular sequence you just have to hit Enter or the right arrow after the "A". eg: "Alt + E + A + ENTER + 1 (9, H, V)"
It seems that adobe has dropped out the old functions alt+letters to achieve the menu commands
Best way is to download Trefor Morris’s Keyboard shortcuts (or create your own) On my keyboard Ctrl+Alt+Sift+U brings up Unsharp Mask and Ctrl+Alt+Sift+G. You can get these shortcuts from: <
http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop01.shtml>
There is a whole raft of shortcuts in this set. I promise you, once you start using them you’ll wonder how ever you managed without them. I for one am eternally grateful to Trefor for making his hard work freely available to users of this forum.
Chris? what happen to your comment? it was the first reply to my original message" how come is not in view anymore!?
Still there. Post #1
Hope some of this will be useful to you.
Chris.