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This tutorial is an introduction to working with
layer sets and a continuation of understanding layers.
Here I am moving all of the layers at once.
You can still move and work on individual layers separately by highlighting a layer within the layer set. You can then move it around to where you’d like it to be. For text layers you can double click on the layer icon to enter the text editing field for changes.
You can also hide layers within a layer set by clicking on the seeing eyeball to turn off the layers visibility. It’s important to note that you can still move it around when it’s invisible and it will also move with all of the layers when you move a layer set.
You can also hide entire layer sets by turning the visibility off. If all layers are turned ‘on’ within the layer set then you just click the layer set visibility to bring all of them ‘back’ from the netherworld.
You can right click on a layer set (as with layers themselves) and choose layer set properties.
Often times I’m so busy with designing that I don’t name my layers. Some people find it annoying to see lots of layer13, layer35, etc.’s but it’s up to you if you want to name your layers. Sometimes I’ll do it after designing to help clean things up or just on a few layers when I need to distinguish it from the others.
Linking layers is easy and allows them to be moved
or transformed together. Just click on the link space when you want
to link another layer to the currently highlighted layer. Remember
you can also right click anywhere on the document when you are on
the moVe tool to choose from layers that are right beneath that
point.
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Here you
can name the layer set (or you can double click on the name itself)
or even add a color to help organize and make things perrtier.
