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Adobe Photoshop Help
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To lock all properties of a layer or layer set:
1
Select a layer or layer set.
2
Do one of the following:
•
Click the Lock All option in the Layers palette.
•
(ImageReady) Choose Layer Options from the Layers palette menu, and select the Lock
All option.
Note:
When a layer in a locked layer set has individual lock options applied to it, the lock
icon is dimmed
.
To partially lock a layer:
1
Select a layer.
2
Click one or more lock options in the Layers palette. In ImageReady, you can also
choose Layer Options from the Layers palette menu, and select one or more lock options:
•
Lock Transparency
to confine editing to the opaque portions of the layer. This option
is equivalent to the Preserve Transparency option in earlier versions of Photoshop.
•
Lock Image
to prevent modification of the layer’s pixels using the painting tools.
•
Lock Position
to prevent the layer’s pixels from being moved.
Note:
For type layers, Lock Transparency and Lock Image are selected by default and
cannot be deselected.
To apply lock options to all linked layers or all layers in a layer set:
1
Select a linked layer or a layer set.
2
Choose Lock All Linked Layers or Lock All Layers in Set from the Layers menu or the
Layers palette menu.
3
Select lock options, and click OK.
Unifying layers (ImageReady)
The unify buttons in the Layers palette determine how the changes you make to a layer
in the active rollover state or animation frame apply to the other states in a rollover or
frames in an animation. When a unify button is selected, changes apply to all states and
frames; when a button is deselected, changes apply to only the active state or frame.
(See
“Unifying and matching layers rollovers and animations” on page 397
.)
Sampling from layers
The default behavior of the magic wand, smudge, blur, sharpen, paint bucket, clone stamp
tool, and healing brush tool is to sample color only from pixels on the active layer. This
means you can smudge or sample in a single layer even when other layers are visible, and
you can sample from one layer and paint in another one.
Alternatively, you can choose to paint using sampled data from all visible layers. For
example, you can use the clone stamp tool to clone an area containing pixels from all the
visible layers.
To sample from all visible layers:
1
Select the magic wand tool
, smudge tool
, blur tool
, sharpen tool , paint
bucket tool
, clone stamp tool
, or healing brush tool
.
