Yuo have auto select layer on. Click the box in the top left corner called Auto select layer.
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Liz…
Once you decide whether you want "Auto Select Layer" on or offand its usefulness can change, depending on your work or a particular projectknow this:
You can temporarily enableor disableit by holding down the CTRL key when using your Move Tool (V).
Auto Select works by selecting the layer that holds the content that is directly beneath the 1-pixel "Hot Spot" on your cursor
That’s good to know. Thanks phos. And all this time I thought that option was just there to be annoying! 🙂
I like Auto Select, hes my freind 😉
And warm fuzzies were felt all about town…
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself, I just love a happy ending and Liz’s gratitude!!
Patty 🙂
You can temporarily enableor disableit by holding down the CTRL key when using your Move Tool (V).
Ooh, good tip, thanks 🙂
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Just to illustrate the point: Below, you’ll see a screenn shot image taken from ResEdit, a resource editor for Macintosh, and annnotated by me, in red. What you’re looking at is a sort of "close-up" view of how a cursor is put together. Every cursor in Photoshop has a 1-pixel "Hot Spot"; Here, in ResEdit, it’s indicated by the little box with the "X". When you click on your mouse, the action that will be performed, as determined by which tool/cursor you’ve chosen, will be focused on or centered around the cursor’s Hot Spot trigger. I’ve chosen to illustrate this with the Text cursor, because it was one that always sort of confused me. After opening Photoshop in ResEdit about 5 or 6 years ago, and inspecting this cursor, I finally understood where the Hot Spot was on this cursor, and consequently, where the exact insertion point was for text whenever I’d use it. Every cursor has this little Hot Spot, and for the most part, the placement of the Hot Spot is in pretty logical.
For example: On the Lasso, the Hot Spot is the last pixel at the end of the Lasso’s "tail"; On the Magic Wand, it’s at the center of the little "star" at the end of the wand; On the eyedropper, it’s right down at the end of the nozzle.
In the case of the Move Tool, the Hot Spot is right at the point of the delta-shape. Auto Select Layer works when this cursor’s Hot Spot sits directly over top of a Layer’s image content, even it that content itself is only 1 pixel, at 50% or greater opacity.
very nice. clean and readable. not too fancy but not too plain.
Used that not so long ago as the base for a neon affect text.
I got all my fonts with corel, at the price you can pick corel up for nowadays could be worth getting just for the fonts. It does come with nearly every font your going to need. ttf and type1
OK, Len, then in that case, (since I’m out beyond 30 minutes) could you please add the text link below the image for those who do access via NNTP? (…In addition to, not instead of)
Since I RARELY visit via newsreader, this hadn’t even occurred to me.
Thanks for sporting me a clue!
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Sorry Dave, think I had just left work then, Yeah corel Draw, You could probably still get draw 4, still comes with as many fonts, and will be dirt cheap, if you can find it 😉
