PHOTOSHOP CS3
User Guide
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Choose Duplicate Layer or Duplicate Group from the Layers menu or the Layers palette menu.
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Choose New from the Document pop-up menu, and click OK.
Show or hide a layer, group, or style
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Do one of the following in the Layers palette:
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Click the eye icon next to a layer, group, or layer effect to hide its content in the document window. Click in the
column again to redisplay the content. To view the eye icon for styles and effects, click the Reveal Effects In Palette
icon
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Choose Show Layers or Hide Layers from the Layers menu.
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Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) an eye icon to display only the contents of that layer or group.
Photoshop remembers the visibility states of all layers before hiding them. If you don’t change the visibility of any
other layer, Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-clicking (Mac OS) the same eye icon restores the original visibility
settings.
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Drag through the eye column to change the visibility of multiple items in the Layers palette.
Note:
Only visible layers are printed.
View layers and groups within a group
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Do one of the following to open the group:
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Click the triangle to the left of the folder icon.
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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the triangle to the left of the folder icon and choose Open This
Group.
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Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the triangle to open or close a group and the groups nested within it.
Sample from all visible layers
The default behavior of the Magic Wand, Smudge, Blur, Sharpen, Paint Bucket, Clone Stamp, and Healing Brush
tools is to sample color only from pixels on the active layer. This means you can smudge or sample in a single layer.
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To smudge or sample pixels from all visible layers with these tools, select Use All Layers from the options bar.
Change transparency preferences
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In Windows, choose Edit > Preferences > Transparency & Gamut; in Mac OS, choose Photoshop > Preferences >
Transparency & Gamut.
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Choose a size and color for the transparency checkerboard, or choose None for Grid Size to hide the transparency
checkerboard.
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Click OK.
