Quick Tip: Sharpen Your Workflow With Photoshop’s Auto-Select
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Quick Tip: Sharpen Your Workflow With Photoshop’s Auto-Select

on Jul 6th 2012 with 11 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Topic: Photoshop workflow
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Screencast duration: 5 mins

If you’re not using Photoshop’s auto-select tool, I can only imagine you’ve never heard of it! Once you make it part of your design workflow, you’ll find that it can save you a lot of time, especially when your PSD documents have complex layer structures.

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  • Ray

    Thank you for another useful quick tip. This is exactly what I need right now. Now I can safe a lot more time.

  • Thomas

    I don’t know too much about MACs, but in Windows, if you CTRL click on anything on the canvas, it’ll auto select the layer for you. Since I realized that, I rarely use the auto-select checkbox :)

    • http://nellucci.com Lyncoln Nellucci

      “read the instruction manual, they said, maybe has something that you don’t know, they said…”

      And here we go!

      Oh lord, why I didn’t know about that? Both tips, the ctrl+click and the auto select (I always saw that option there, but never tried to use it , AND THE QUESTION IS… WHY? HAHA. dumb feeling). Very very very usefull! Thank you for sharing!

  • Hamid

    really thx adi, this is very usefull, waw!

  • http://varemenos.com Varemenos

    I always hated that feature. Its not accurate at all.

    • philip82

      You need to select layer from the dropdown for an accurate select coupled with show transform controls for a better visual. I found it very useful.

  • http://www.sameaim.nl Eelco Verbrugge

    I don’t use it at all, I always use Ctril + click. It’s much clever I think! But thanks for tip, special moment when you discover the function haha

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  • Margalus

    Nice tip, i didn’t know this option!

  • http://objectgraph.com Serge

    By the way.

    You can also option/alt + right click.
    Works the same.

  • http://www.webdesign.org/ Julia Agnes

    Hi! Thank you for sharing!)) amazing option!

  • rtro

    I remember when I first found out about this I was amazed.
    I now usually CTRL + click, however when layers are grouped it will select the group folder only.
    This is often useful when moving a group or needing to select it,
    however if a layer is nested inside a group the way to select the specific layer is ALT + Click.
    Extremely useful info. A must-know shortcut for anyone working with PS. :-)

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