You can even use the auto-select alternative choice when continuing to work in a Photoshop document with different processes. With all of this on, you can just consider a different layer in the layers panel by clicking on the picture with the move Tool. But auto-selecting can also cause you to accidentally change layers if you want it not. The easiest strategy for many users is to turn off Auto-Select and activate it with a keyboard shortcut Even retain the Windows Ctrl key or the Mac command key. Till you generate the key, Auto-Select will be activated.
This also works the other way around – you can leave Auto-Select activated by holding Ctrl/Command in the Options bar and temporarily switch it off. In addition to identifying layers instantaneously, Photoshop also lets us to choose layer groups immediately. When you click on any group layer, the entire team is automatically selected.
Simple layer in the layer group selects automatically: To select group layer groups automatically go through the Tool Bar and change the Layer to Group automatic selection.
Change the group option to Auto-Select: Now I’ll pick the layer group then press again with the same individual components.
Photoshop’s ideal method to auto-select
So how can we use the auto-select feature of Photoshop but by mistake do not select the wrong layers? Only if you need to auto-select is the best way to do that. And that can be done with a simple trick in the keyboard.
How to disable Photoshop Auto-Select
Uncheck Auto-Select in the Option Bar to disable the Auto-Select moving tool. It will stay off until you turn it on again, so you just have to do it once.
The auto-select layers problem
So we saw the auto-select functionality of Photoshop is a quick and easy way to choose the layer. This also facilitates the selection of the wrong layer by accident. I have ungrouped my layers to showing what I indicate to you, and I have auto-select back to layer. In the Layers panel, by clicking on the layer, I will select the “L” layer as you would usually choose a layer without auto selecting. And then I move the content I expected by the active layer “L,” by clicking on the letter L of the document directly, And Continue moving Tool I drag. But the problem is here. I’ll move the incorrect content by mistake clicking on another part of the document, for example letter A and dragging with the Move Tool. And because of that I clicked on the new layer instead of moving the layer was automatically selected by Photoshop, Portion of the manuscript or, when I click and drag accidentally the background content, I begin drawing a contour of the selection and automatically select any layers Selection within I clicked on the new layer instead of moving the layer letter L, or anything.
Turn Auto-Select on temporarily
Then, press as well as hold on your keyboard Ctrl(Win)/Command(Mac) whenever you would like to transiently turn on Auto- Select back. To switch the Auto- Click back off click on the level contents you really want chose automatically, then release the Ctrl/Command key.
To temporarily turn on Auto Select, press and hold Ctrl (Windows) / Command (Mac) while selecting multiple layers, then add the Shift key. To turn off Auto-Select, select in the file and then start releasing the key to select the necessary layers. Please keep in mind that you must have the move tool active in order for these tools to function. The keyboard shortcut will come back to the Options Bar, indicating that Auto-Select is enabled. Once the Ctrl/Command key is released, the checkmark will vanish.
