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Photoshop 7.01
I have an image with a text layer and two vector mask layers that I need to move a bit.
I’d like to be able to move them all at the same time so I don’t have to zoom in and fiddle them into place one at a time.
I selected the text layer then linked the two vector mask layers. Doesn’t work, all move individually.
I tried unlinking then selecting one vector mask layer and linking the other to it. The first selected layer now will not move, yet a Move entry appears in History. The second vector mask layer will move.
The text layer is the the letter w from the Sure-Thing
Symbols font (comes with the Sure-Thing CD lable program) which looks like the Mac OS logo. To provide the two shades of blue, I created freeform shapes on layers behind the
logo and filled them with colors sampled from an EPS logos file I found somewhere on apple’s website.
So, how do I get these layers to stick together, without rasterizing or merging them or otherwise destroying their vector/scalable nature?
If it can’t be done, just say "Can’t be done." and I’ll just have to do it the same fiddly way I got the layers
aligned in their current positions. 🙁
(It’d be nice if Adobe would’ve just made it so the user could shift or ctrl click multiple layers in Layers so
they could be moved together. I guess that after SEVEN
major versions that bit of _logical process_ just isn’t
going to happen. If that can’t be done in CS, make that
EIGHT major versions. It’s only a big feature in the
file managers of the OSes Photoshop runs on… no reason for Adobe to think it’d be useful in _their_ software…)
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I have an image with a text layer and two vector mask layers that I need to move a bit.
I’d like to be able to move them all at the same time so I don’t have to zoom in and fiddle them into place one at a time.
I selected the text layer then linked the two vector mask layers. Doesn’t work, all move individually.
I tried unlinking then selecting one vector mask layer and linking the other to it. The first selected layer now will not move, yet a Move entry appears in History. The second vector mask layer will move.
The text layer is the the letter w from the Sure-Thing
Symbols font (comes with the Sure-Thing CD lable program) which looks like the Mac OS logo. To provide the two shades of blue, I created freeform shapes on layers behind the
logo and filled them with colors sampled from an EPS logos file I found somewhere on apple’s website.
So, how do I get these layers to stick together, without rasterizing or merging them or otherwise destroying their vector/scalable nature?
If it can’t be done, just say "Can’t be done." and I’ll just have to do it the same fiddly way I got the layers
aligned in their current positions. 🙁
(It’d be nice if Adobe would’ve just made it so the user could shift or ctrl click multiple layers in Layers so
they could be moved together. I guess that after SEVEN
major versions that bit of _logical process_ just isn’t
going to happen. If that can’t be done in CS, make that
EIGHT major versions. It’s only a big feature in the
file managers of the OSes Photoshop runs on… no reason for Adobe to think it’d be useful in _their_ software…)
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Remove the meat from my e-mail to reply.
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